But after a week in a coma during the fall of 2008, during which his neocortex ceased to function, Alexander claims he experienced a life-changing visit to the afterlife, specifically heaven.
"According to current medical understanding of the brain and mind, there is absolutely no way that I could have experienced even a dim and limited consciousness during my time in the coma, much less the hyper-vivid and completely coherent odyssey I underwent," Alexander writes in the cover story of this week's edition of Newsweek.
So what exactly does heaven look like?
shimmering beings arced across the sky, leaving long, streamer like lines behind them."
He claims to have been escorted
by an unknown female companion and says he communicated with these
beings through a method of correspondence that transcended language.
Alexander says the messages he received from those beings loosely
translated as:
"You have nothing to fear."
From there, Alexander claims to
have traveled to "an immense void, completely dark, infinite in size,
yet also infinitely comforting." He believes this void was the home of
God.
After recovering from his
meningitis-induced coma, Alexander says he was reluctant to share his
experience with his colleagues but found comfort inside the walls of
his church. He's chronicled his experience in a new book, "Proof of Heaven: A neurosurgeon's journey into the afterlife," which will be published in late October.
"I'm still a doctor, and still a
man of science every bit as much as I was before I had my experience,"
Alexander writes. "But on a deep level I'm very different from the
person I was before, because I've caught a glimpse of this emerging
picture of reality. And you can believe me when I tell you that it will
be worth every bit of the work it will take us, and those who come
after us, to get it right."
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