Dr Eben Alexander, a Harvard-educated neurosurgeon, fell into a coma for a week in 2008 after contracting meningitis. Read his remarkable story here.
Near-Death episodes seem to be more and more common as well as lucid dreams. The Thought that goes bump in the night is that Consciousness is not a by-product of the actions of the organ we call brain. Dr. Eben summed it:
"I've spent decades as a neurosurgeon at some of the most prestigous medical institutions in our country. I know that many of my peers hold as I myself did to the theory that the brain, and in particular the cortex, generates consciousness … but that belief, that theory, now lies broken at our feet. What happened to me destroyed it." (emphasis added)
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| From the Telegraph article |
"I've spent decades as a neurosurgeon at some of the most prestigous medical institutions in our country. I know that many of my peers hold as I myself did to the theory that the brain, and in particular the cortex, generates consciousness … but that belief, that theory, now lies broken at our feet. What happened to me destroyed it." (emphasis added)
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