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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,... read more
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People edit
- Eben Alexander: Author and main character in this autobiographical book. Eben is a neurosurgeon who contracts a very rare case of bacterial menengitis caused by E. coli, causing a 7-day coma, during which his brain's higher functions stop. Eben experiences the afterlife, then against all odds, returns to his body to share his story.
- Eben IV: Eben and Holley's eldest son.
- Holley: Eben Alexander's wife.
- John: Add a description of this character.
- Susanna
- Sylvia White
- Susan Reintjes
- Betsy
- Ann
- Richard Michael
- Dr. Robert Brennan
- Phyllis
- Chuck
- Raymond Moody
- Bond
- Jean
- Peggy
- Kathy
- Christina
- Betty
- Jackie
- Bob
- Dr. Jay Loeffler
- Laura Potter
- Michael Sullivan
- Scott Wade
Quotes edit
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“I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.”
Albert Einstein -
“A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.”
Albert Einstein -
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
Soren Kierkegaard -
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.”
Albert Einstein -
“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in you life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
Rene Descartes
First Sentence edit
When I was a kid, I would often dream of flying.
Table of Contents edit
Prologue
1. The Pain
2. The Hospital
3. Out of Nowhere
4. Eben IV
5. Underworld
6. An Anchor to Life
7. The Spinning Melody and the Gateway
8. Israel
9. The Core
10. What Counts
11. An End to the Downward Spiral
12. The Core
13. Wednesday
14. A Special Kind of NDE
15. The Gift of Forgetting
16. The Well
17. N of 1
18. To Forget, and to Remember
19. Nowhere to Hide
20. The Closing
21. The Rainbow
22. Six Faces
23. Final Night, First Morning
24. The Return
25. Not There Yet
26. Spreading the News
27. Homecoming
28. The Ultra-Real
29. A Common Experience
30. Back from the Dead
31. Three Camps
32. A Visit to Church
33. The Enigma of Consciousness
34. A Final Dilemma
35. The Photograph
Eternea
Acknowledgments
Reading List
Appendix A: Statement by Scott Wade, M.D.
Appendix B: Neuroscientific Hypotheses I Considered to Explain My Experience
Index
Series & Lists edit
This is book 2 of 15 in New York Times Bestsellers - Nonfiction (Current). (authoritative list)
This is book 1 of 20 in New York Times Bestsellers - Paperback Nonfiction (Current). (authoritative list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Eben Alexander (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4516-9518-2
Page Count: 196
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4516-9518-2
Page Count: 196
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