Eben Alexander Quotes

As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.

Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it.

Our eternal spiritual self is more real than anything we perceive in this physical realm, and has a divine connection to the infinite love of the Creator.

There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.

Love is, without a doubt, the basis of everything.

I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon.

We can only see what our brain’s filter allows through.

We - each of us - are intricately, irremovably connected to the larger universe.

Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn’t.

Physical life is characterized by defensiveness, whereas spiritual life is just the opposite.

A story-a true story-can heal as much as medicine can.

I finally chalked it up to the fact that the brain is truly an extraordinary device: more extraordinary than we can even guess.

I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as human history.