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Consciousness beyond brain function, with neurosurgeon Dr. Eben Alexander

Essentia Foundation | April 16, 2024
Consciousness beyond brain function, with neurosurgeon Dr. Eben Alexander

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  1. @rickowen4410

    April 16, 2024 at 11:12 pm

    Thank you for this interview with Dr. Alexander. I ordered his three books. He seems to have connected a lot of dots—not so much to explain all mysteries, but to affirm that they actually exist.

  2. @JustReed

    April 16, 2024 at 11:12 pm

    Humanity needs to get rid of the conception of 'God' in a biblical sense. That God is a fantasy and manmade God. Humanity is living in the Dark Ages of perception towards what the Divine really is. The only conception I believe what humanity can define the Divine is, Love & Light.

  3. @spiritfilled5758

    April 16, 2024 at 11:12 pm

    All the information gathered on N.D.E. and other subjective experiences seem to imply that the brain is a filter or receiver for consciousness, it seems to limit the full expressions. Follow the evidence not what your told or believe but actual evidence. Good stuff…

  4. @MichaelDembinski

    April 16, 2024 at 11:12 pm

    There's a certain cognitive dissonance going on… what I'm hearing is right on – the message really resonates with me – but what I'm seeing is a man living in a luxurious house, the carbon footprint of which is equal to that of scores of people living in Africa; no doubt a big car on the drive and jet flights hither and yon to appear at conferences worldwide. Stoking an ego? Correct?

  5. @zaki8361

    April 16, 2024 at 11:12 pm

    Great interview. I also read your book.. Proof of Heaven. I am not preaching. In the Holy Quran, it is mentioned multiple times that the entire life system and the universe is encompassed by Rahmat, akin to the Arabic word meaning love (blessings) from the Almighty!

  6. @lettermines

    April 16, 2024 at 11:12 pm

    Dr Eben Alexander said that he didn't recognize who he himself was during the journey through heaven in his nde. It seems to be quite different from others with nde. Can it be because he was brain dead during the 7 days of coma, which means the consciousness was still under the influence of brain function?

  7. @lettermines

    April 16, 2024 at 11:12 pm

    Looking carefully into the description of what dr. Eben Alexander experienced, he was concious traveling to what he calls heaven while he was in coma; his brain was completely destroyed cell by cell.
    However, there is some baffling, frustrating and unclear points about his description.
    First…he said that he was conscious as an observer but he was unconscious about himself and his family on earth; he didn't remember anything about what he had experienced back on earth.
    According to his book, Proof of Heaven, he didn't even recognize who he himself was or people around him including his sons when he got back from coma.
    It was only after a few weeks later when he got his normal brain function back that he started recognizing his family members and getting the knowledge back that he had gotten here on earth.

    Of course, he was amnesiac from the damage by the bacterial infection…but if we should be conscious beyond our brain, don't we have to know who we are, at least in heaven, if not on earth where we might be under the influence of physical body like brain?

    It would be so frustrating if my mom didnt recognize me in heaven.

    If anybody has an idea or answer to this, please let me know. I will really appreciate it.

  8. @swimfit57

    April 16, 2024 at 11:12 pm

    My father died when I was 10! 6 months later I had a lucid dream about my dad! Woke up in the dream and he was at the end of my bed? And I said, what are you doing? Here you died and he said I didn’t die I just went away then I got really pissed and I said do you know what mom‘s been going through since you went away and he said Steve you don’t understand it’s like a radio. I’ve change the station and I’m not on the same station. You all are of course that didn’t help me much so he took me out into the universe and show me some things which I don’t quite remember then he was talking me back in bed and asking me if I was OK and I said yes I understand now!

  9. @gabrielsoto1693

    April 16, 2024 at 11:12 pm

    I’m surprised that Eben has been allowed to speak with Essentia, since his track record is kinda shady. This channel has had some great people in it, like Markus Müller, etc. Dr Eben has had malpractice lawsuits and his book has been criticized for having factually inaccurate information.

    I love this channel and I really believe in Kastrup’s project, so seeing Eben here is not a pleasant sight for me.

  10. @danterosati

    April 16, 2024 at 11:12 pm

    this is what Descartes actually said in the Meditations:

    “Adeo ut, omnibus satis superque pensitatis, denique statuendum sit hoc pronuntiatum, Ego sum, ego existo, quoties a me profertur, vel mente concipitur, necessario esse verum”

    “De sorte qu’après y avoir bien pensé, et avoir soigneusement examiné toutes choses, enfin il fault conclure, et tenir pour constant que cette proposition: Je suis, j’existe, est nécessairement vraie, toutes les fois que je la prononce, ou que je la conçois en mon esprit.”

    “So after considering everything very thoroughly, I must finally conclude that this proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind.”

    – Descartes 2nd Meditation 25

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