The Daily Mail recently published an article by Dr Eben Alexander - the neurologist whose 2012 book 'Proof of Heaven' topped the bestseller lists. Dr Eben Alexander wrote about how he had visited heaven whilst in a coma. He says he did so whilst his brain was "completely unplugged", and that his "inner self existed, in defiance of all the known laws of science." I realise he wants to sell his book, but why does he assume his vision happened when his brain was 'unplugged'? Isn't it hugely more likely that it happened as he started to regain consciousness, when his brain had been 'plugged back in'?
It's also very telling that he says he was "nominally a Christian", and that his experience of heaven is exactly what a Christian would expect. A luscious paradise filled with happy dead people. His vision sounds like a lucid dream, where "everything is more real - less dense, yet at the same time more intense."
And then he mentions how the woman in heaven turned out to be the sister he'd never known. Well, okay. Maybe he really did visit heaven and his sister Betsy. Or maybe the woman in his vision just happened to look a little bit like her. But remember it was four months after his vision that he saw the photo of his sister, so perhaps he just remembers the woman as his sister because he wants it to be true.
It's also very telling that he says he was "nominally a Christian", and that his experience of heaven is exactly what a Christian would expect. A luscious paradise filled with happy dead people. His vision sounds like a lucid dream, where "everything is more real - less dense, yet at the same time more intense."
And then he mentions how the woman in heaven turned out to be the sister he'd never known. Well, okay. Maybe he really did visit heaven and his sister Betsy. Or maybe the woman in his vision just happened to look a little bit like her. But remember it was four months after his vision that he saw the photo of his sister, so perhaps he just remembers the woman as his sister because he wants it to be true.
