神經外科醫生六天的“天堂之旅”
一個頂尖的神經外科醫生在他的大腦新皮層失去功能達長七天，從昏迷狀態蘇醒後聲稱見到了“天堂的證明”。
埃亞歷山大博士Dr Eben Alexander，哈佛大學神經科學教授, 在2008年得了一種罕見的細菌性腦膜炎。
在幾個小時持續的劇烈頭痛後，亞歷山大醫生大腦中控制思想和情感的部分皮層停止工作。
雖然他的生存幾率很低，但在昏迷七天蘇醒後，他開始描述另一個世界的體驗。
“我是在一個充滿雲層的地方，它們呈現出粉紅色，白色，在深藍色的天空中顯得特別顯眼”他在“新聞週刊”的一篇文章中寫道。
他還形容“成群結隊透明的、閃閃發光的生命體在天空中劃出弧線，身後留下了長長的飄帶般的線條。”
雖然亞歷山大博士承認他的科學知識，讓他懷疑死後的世界，但大腦皮質功能喪失，使得他的體驗是獨一無二的。
他說，我不是第一人發現證據表明”意識”超出人體之外。
“我知道這一切聽起來讓人難以置信。”
“但據我所知，沒有人在我之前到達過那個維度，大腦皮質功能完全失去功能，並且身體完全在實時醫療觀察下，就像我那樣整整昏迷了7天。”
亞歷山大博士承認，很多人仍然抗拒接受他的故事，特別是他的醫療同事。
“我還是一名醫生，也是一個科學的人，但是，在更深層面上我與之前已經大不相同，因為我瞥見了這個即將浮出的真實世界。”
他即將出版的新書，“天堂的證明，神經外科醫生的來世之旅” Proof of Heaven, A Neurosurgeon journey into the Afterlife，旨在消除那些人的疑慮，將在本月晚些出版。
Heaven is real, says neurosurgeon who claims to have visited the afterlife
Dr. Eben Alexander claims to have visited the afterlife
Dr. Eben Alexander has taught at Harvard Medical School and has earned a strong reputation as a neurosurgeon. And while Alexander says he's long called himself a Christian, he never held deeply religious beliefs or a pronounced faith in the afterlife.
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?
Alexander says he first found himself floating above clouds before witnessing, "transparent, 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 are loved and cherished, dearly, forever."
"You have nothing to fear."
"There is nothing you can do wrong."
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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