Perhaps the Biggest Thought of All...

Dr Eben Alexander, a Harvard-educated neurosurgeon, fell into a coma for a week in 2008 after contracting meningitis.  Read his remarkable story here.

From the Telegraph article

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)