Required Reading

Any doubts about an afterlife are blown away by this wonderful narration. Dr Alexander intertwines the spiritual and material worlds in a very heart warming way.Like his experience It drives me to explore further.

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a wonderful read for those interested in NDEs

a wonderful read for those interested in near death experiences. be prepared for a good dose of sentimentality

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Great listen

Really enjoyed Dr Ebens story and it made me want to research further into near death experiences. I found him a good narrator also.

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amazing

so lovely to hear a story of spirituality from a dr. dr's are normally so scientific

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Hope

I needed to hear this account to ease the grief after the death of my 12 year old son October last year, it has not made me a believer but it has given me a little hope.

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Great real story

This was beautifully writing & kept me intrigued. But I found the real heaven experiences explanations very short, I wanted more.
But maybe that was the beauty of it all also.
Much my enjoyed

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An amazing story everyone should read.

I'm not a religious person, this is a very interesting book. It has made me doubt my previous assumptions on the subject of afterlife and different worlds. I think even if you read it and still felt that the ideas are still not conceivable you will still have enjoyed the book. I will look at more books which cover this topic as it is fascinating. I hope it's all true .

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Excellent

Thought provoking and thoroughly gripping. Excellent detail, background and factual information which provided me with a lot to consider in terms of my own physical reality blended with scientific facts and spiritual connections. Of all the books I have read, I felt that this one provides logical evidence of the spiritual realm. And encourages us to further explore our own physical and spiritual truths. Thank you.

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Poor reflection by the author

I probably made a mistake in buying this book because I was looking for a sample of NDEs when this was obviously one man’s experience but it did raise some interesting issues.

A few people have pointed out that there are conflicting stories surrounding the medical nature of what happened to Alexander and if he did concoct that part of the story I think it is because he has a big misunderstanding about what leads to the type of experience he had. Contrary to the belief he stated in the book, it is a reduction in normal cortical activity which leads to the unusual experiences often associated with stress, hypoxia and psychedelics, for example. That is, those factors produce diminished cortical activity which is associated with unusual types of experience often characterised by feelings of otherworldliness, oneness and God.

In fact, it is Alexander’s poor reflection on his own biases which lets this book down most. There is no reason to dispute the experience he described. It could never be tested objectively but nor is it unusual or unlikely even if it is unique. However, even if he protests that he was not an active churchgoer Alexander’s Christian indoctrination as a child growing up in the southern US is inevitable and evident throughout the book. This is undoubtedly why he seems to be convinced that he went to some ‘other place’ ‘up there’ and never considered that the reality he experienced then and the one he experiences now is created by himself.

This was a missed opportunity for that insight and the book has become merely a comfort for people who believe in an actual place called Heaven and an entity separate from humanity called God which gets us nowhere.

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OBE's

A very straightforward no nonsense account of his obe. Really naturally read. Very listenable honest voice. I too had an obe under the anaesthetic. It lasted about an hour maybe. I went through a lot of lights while flying through darkness at unearthly speed in complete stillness in a spiral. I too was told when I reached my destination I would be going back. I decended through the same lights in the opposite direction and only experienced horror coming back in. A thought form created from the physical beings here relishing eating the dust of other entities here in order to replenish our/their own dust (physical bodies). I have to accept this, it is the way, saying grace I feel was an ancient honouring and thanking the life takin because of the need to eat another living thing to survive.

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