You're watching...
Neurosurgeon Dr. Eben Alexander on his book, “Proof of Heaven”, and his journey while suffering from bacterial meningitis.
Also in this playlist...
Auto-advance: ON
Auto-advance
This transcript is automatically generated
-- -- stunning that I would have -- on.
On time -- ahead of time but I suspect -- be worth that I like so I want for a half an hour.
Most pronounced in the document even Alexander -- a seven a wall and leaders think anybody would tell me well of course not now sort of -- -- decides to wait just.
A month -- 52 -- the doc comes out.
And Ben foot to a producer -- gets audio intercom and he says by the way it's.
Evan not even had to finish breakfast and council's just agreement a fool myself what was your response after -- soldiers are important lesson on important analysts fear that.
-- -- -- -- Doctor -- Alexander of -- and -- version.
That is -- benefit on the Boston her longtime Birmingham rose hospital -- hospitals in the country shall -- Harvard medical.
-- -- -- -- -- Proof of heaven and neurosurgeons.
Journey into the afterlife for his work on -- -- -- And Alexander more a dollar well thanks for happening here our decisions.
Are you doing great have -- you August -- Well I don't you know old people are your -- -- Dog I'm becoming one myself funeral -- when your asked as well where -- in general and -- but this is about about this morning -- your management.
So tell -- what happened to.
Well I've woke up 4:30 in the morning back in November of 2008.
Severe back pain and it's like being struck by freight train -- next thing I knew not headache that was its.
-- you know twelve on a scale of ten and and I was already going down too fast I didn't even know what in the world was going on.
And my last -- -- something right -- to my wife who wanted to call 911 and I said.
-- muscle -- trust me -- doctor and then I was on the way out so quickly and -- -- seizure lapsed into a -- are now well I had a -- -- seizure and I don't memory products are Gaza.
-- that's where the brain.
Is being attacked in a way that all of kind of coordination of the of the neurons in the cortex the part that is part of our consciousness -- Go into a chaotic electrical rhythm Gaza well it in my case whose calls -- very rare bacterial meningitis that was moving quickly -- Back to your life and what -- -- and so anyway she saw me having a grand -- seizure.
And called 911 and they came into me off to the ER.
Of course I remember none of that none of the next seven days from this earth.
And so what happened.
During.
Wells in deep in the middle of at all him.
Had this experience of that started out as.
Very kind of monotonous.
Course underground realm but then moved through this this.
-- spending white light and morality up into this valley.
And it was a very idyllic scene had I was.
Had -- body awareness that I was spectrum butterfly wing with millions of other butterflies and blossoming flowers and all these souls dancing below was and swooping more visible light and chants and anthems coming from above so with -- very.
Powerful.
Kind of non earthly.
Experience.
Of going through its Gateway with -- assurance.
And comfort that I had nothing to fear at all elements of the completely.
Loved and an outside of the entire multi purse.
And all of eternity with its divine entity so was in every sense a very powerful.
Spiritual journey and yet.
If you'd asked me before -- home mom what would such patient with severe bacterial meningitis.
Experience or remember I'd seen nothing at all so when I came back and remember this Odyssey of an experience.
I wasn't sure what to make it.
-- -- of sounded like a sound like what.
What are your -- -- Patrick asked about it sections which.
Well if you know a lot of people discuss that it sounds a lot like -- GMT here and Ellis.
But I can say is just much more real terms of them those experiences are of the memories don't faded all I mean I've remembered -- if -- happened yesterday.
And the reality of it is so much crisper than the reality even of sitting here in the studio.
And talking it's it's it's extraordinary.
And I was trying to write it when I came back I was trying to write it all up as a neuroscientist -- report of you know this sense of hyper reality -- -- coma.
Which I thought especially amazing since I -- -- Truman Titus which should have been activated all of my conscious experience now this divine entity that your.
-- -- -- Oh eyes I would say in everybody's definition yes although for the first two months as I was writing all the top I wouldn't even use the word.
God because that word as to trivializing.
Compared to the -- all and kind of indescribable power and love of that being wasn't rules of being -- in the first eligible person now know this was out in that -- around what I call the core in my book which is outside of of the observable universe and that is the the only.
Manifestation.
There was in all of higher dimensional reality in this brilliant horrible blight and that presence of the divine creative.
Take all -- -- like a conversation.
Well it was not with words but with pure conceptual -- when I was told that.
You know -- concepts of that I would be either -- learned many things.
But that I'd be going back.
-- that I wasn't there to stay.
And I had no idea that men although I kept cycling back to -- course -- my view and I thought that's what back was back to was -- -- ago.
You're saying now or did you spectrum.
That this was a religious experience or spiritual.
Well it was in every sense a very.
It was part of the fact that we are all spiritual beings -- this is my getting down to that level where.
They're no more boundaries of self coming this is far beyond being.
-- Alexander's consciousness out wandered around and not even borrow.
Right not even not as either.
Obama but.
It was so very powerful spiritual experience which I think -- -- basis of all the mystical and religious.
Experiences that we read about -- neither all they'll have this common basis doctrine argument.
