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Humanity's Quest for Health

A series of Christian Science Committees on Publication articles from media around the world, which the Journal will be reprinting in this column.

Dr. Eben Alexander says it's time for brain science to graduate from kindergarten

From the February 2014 issue of The Christian Science Journal

This interview was first published on The Huffington Post’s Healthy Living page.


Anyone who openly declares that consciousness is not brain is going to get some attention. Especially when it’s from an established neurosurgeon whose knowledge of brain science includes 25 years of clinical practice, including 15 years at the Brigham & Women’s and the Children’s Hospitals and Harvard Medical School in Boston.

Dr. Eben Alexander has collected his fair share of skeptics over the claims he’s made in his New York Times bestseller, Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife.

After a year of being on the shelves for public consumption, his book has sometimes taken a beating from critics who have poked holes in his story of surviving a very rare case of meningitis, which virtually destroyed his neocortex (the side of the brain that is supposed to make us human) and nearly left him dead or, at best, a vegetable.

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