The #1 New York Times bestselling account of a neurosurgeon's own near-death experience?for
readers of 7 Lessons from Heaven. Thousands of people have had near-death experiences but
scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those
scientists. A highly trained neurosurgeon Alexander knew that NDEs feel real but are simply
fantasies produced by brains under extreme stress. Then Dr. Alexander's own brain was attacked
by a rare illness. The part of the brain that controls thought and emotion?and in essence makes
us human?shut down completely. For seven days he lay in a coma. Then as his doctors considered
stopping treatment Alexander's eyes popped open. He had come back. Alexander's recovery is a
medical miracle. But the real miracle of his story lies elsewhere. While his body lay in coma
Alexander journeyed beyond this world and encountered an angelic being who guided him into the
deepest realms of super-physical existence. There he met and spoke with the Divine source of
the universe itself. Alexander's story is not a fantasy. Before he underwent his journey he
could not reconcile his knowledge of neuroscience with any belief in heaven God or the soul.
Today Alexander is a doctor who believes that true health can be achieved only when we realize
that God and the soul are real and that death is not the end of personal existence but only a
transition. This story would be remarkable no matter who it happened to. That it happened to
Dr. Alexander makes it revolutionary. No scientist or person of faith will be able to ignore
it. Reading it will change your life.
