At some point in our lives, we've all
wondered if there is life after death. There are many beliefs say that yes,
there is. For instance, some religions that say that we should have a good
behavior in life so that, after this, we won’t go to hell. However, there was
still no evidence to prove it so far. Dr. Eben Alexander, after suffering a
near-death experience in which his brain stopped working, has returned to the
world convinced that there is a higher spiritual dimension and that
consciousness does not depend on the brain, it exists beyond the body and
death.
Near-death experiences are one of the most interesting
research areas in neuroscience. For most scientists are a phenomenon that can
be explained perfectly by the physics (spiritual divinity is a conceptual
experience generated by the brain), but people who have experienced these close
encounters with death, do not listen to the voices of men qualified white coat
and, seduced by the beauty of his visions.
Dr. Eben Alexander, neurosurgeon from Harvard
University, had experienced one of the most commented encounters about death. He
wrote a book Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Near Death Experience and
Journey into the Afterlife, and a condensed version of his experience has been
featured on the cover of Newsweek (one of the last editions of this iconic
print magazine).
He claimed that he did not believe in the
phenomenon of near-death experiences. He understood what happens to the brain
when a person is near death, and always believed that there was an adequate
scientific explanation for extracorporeal heavenly visions described by those
who narrowly escaped death. Nevertheless, after 7 days in a coma in which the
human part of the brain, the neocortex, was off, he experienced something so
profound that gave me a scientific reason to believe in consciousness after
death. All the main arguments against near-death experiences suggest that these
experiences are the result of a least transient or partial malfunction of the
cortex. His near-death experience; however, did not happen when the cortex was
malfunctioning, but when it was just off. According to scientists, there is no
way in which he could have experienced even the slightest and dark
consciousness during coma. He argues that while his neurons were obfuscated in
complete inactivity by the bacteria that had attacked, its
free-of-consciousness brain traveled to another dimension larger the universe:
"a dimension I never dreamed existed." – he says.
It is hard to believe that there is life after death, but according to this neurosurgeon, there is. In my opinion, I do not believe in heaven or hell. I think there is some kind of dimension in which we all go after we died. Do you believe in something similar? or do you think that when we died, our spirit and body died too?
