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Brain surgeon who was afterlife sceptic 'saw heaven' during near-death experience
Apr 27, 2025
Eben Alexander, a neurosurgeon, has claimed that he visited heaven while he was in a coma and insists that his experience was proof that there is life after death
A top doctor has shared his extraordinary experience of 'heaven' during a coma, which led him to believe in an afterlife.
American neurosurgeon and author Dr. Eben Alexander recounts feeling 'reborn' when he unexpectedly came back to consciousness, just as physicians were contemplating the withdrawal of life support.
Dr. Alexander’s transformative ordeal began in November 2008 when he developed a severe headache one day at Lynchburg General Hospital in Virginia.
"Within a few hours, I went into a coma: my neocortex, the part of the brain that handles all the thought processes making us human, had shut down completely," he detailed.
Alexander was battling bacterial meningitis with almost no hope for recovery,.
The esteemed Harvard Medical School faculty member fell into seizures, prompting doctors to induce a coma in hopes his body might fight back.
"I was in deep coma, a vegetative state, and all the higher functions of my brain were offline," he is cited as saying in The Map of Heaven, according to the Daily Mail.
"Scans showed no conscious activity whatever - my brain was not malfunctioning, it was completely unplugged.
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