proof of heaven in our multiverse and other universes

http://divinitynow.com/037917_Proof_of_Heaven_afterlife_Creator.html

A lifelong science skeptic who never believed in God, Heaven or consciousness

Long before this book was ever written, Dr. Alexander was a practicing neurosurgeon and a lifelong "science skeptic." He did not believe in consciousness, free will or the existence of a non-physical spirit. Trained in western medical school and surrounded by medical colleagues who are deeply invested in the materialism view of the universe, Dr. Alexander believed that so-called "consciousness" was only an illusion created by the biochemical functioning of the brain.

This is a view held by virtually all of today's mainstream scientists, including physicists like Stephen Hawking who say that human beings are nothing more than "biological robots" with no consciousness and no free will. Dr. Alexander would have held this view to his own death bed had it not been for his experiencing an event so bizarre and miraculous that it defies all conventional scientific explanation: Dr. Alexander "died" for seven days and experienced a vivid journey into the afterlife. He then returned to his physical body, experienced a miraculous healing, and went on to write the book "Proof of Heaven."

 

His brain was clinically DEAD for 7 days? LOL, He was dead longer than Jesus!
The bull crap people fall for...

 

he was in a 7-day coma. he didn't "die".

 

He was a neurosurgeon and he can't figure out that it wasn't 'heaven', but his mind?

How about this one? ->

It is not a proof unless others can repeat it.

 

That's really incredible! As in
"not credible; hard to believe; unbelievable: The plot of the book is incredible". Dictionary.com Why would anyone believe it? Probably because: (1) the author has an impressive reputation, of the sort that would ordinarily give credibility to what he says. He's an internationally recognized neurosurgeon on the faculty or Harvard, no less--an expert on stuff having to do with brains; (2) he purports to have been a materialist skeptic with a mechanistic understanding of brain functioning before his remarkable experience; (3) he reports that the neocortex of his brain, the part that is ordinarily thought to create such dreamlike states, was completely "shut down" or "off-line" because of infection with bacterial meningitis, precluding the dreaming activity his visions would otherwise resemble. But Hume has taught us to disbelieve claims of miraculous occurrences unless the probability of their being true outweighs other possible non-miraculous explanation, such as error, ignorance, hallucination, or fraud. Let's consider these possibilities:

First, the account provided here comes from a website devoted to promoting theism, and spinning stories accordingly. It is unlikely that Dr. Alexander "died" for seven days, which is probably why that expression is given in quotation marks. He was never pronounced dead, no obituaries were published, and unlike Jesus and Lazarus, he was never placed in a tomb. What actually happened, according to Alexander, was that his neocortex ceased to function. As for going to "Heaven" and returning, there's no clear evidence of that either, much less "proof", despite the title "Proof of Heaven". The man obviouslysuffered massive brain trauma, from which he fully recovered. That alone is extraordinary (a one in ten million occurrence, as he says), but well-documented. The rest, not so much. While his neocortex was defunct, Dr. Alexander reports vivid dreamlike experiences involving angels, God (aka "Om") and a whole realm of unfamiliar experiences, some of it typical NDE fare. He saw arcs of light which he came to call "angels" and a feeling of divine presence in a "brilliant orb of light" which he couldn't actually see and describe. He was using familiar labels to describe the ineffable. Alternative explanations would include the possiblilty that consciousness is, contrary to materialist conceptions, independent of brain functioning, and that getting it out of the way enabled Dr. Alexander to access an aspect of reality previously blocked to him. Or it might simply be that he had more neocortal functioning than he thought he did--enough to concoct a brilliant hallucination. What is the sound of one neuron firing? In fact, he admits the possibility that "isolated preservations of cortical regions' might have been enough to explain some of the experiences, but he seems to think it was all too vivid and real to have been just that. Even "experts" like Dr. Alexander don't know everything, and science still doesn't fully understand consciousness. As for Alexander's vaunted previous skepticism, Saint Paul had a similar mindset on this way to Damascus, and look what happened to him! Sometimes people who seem confident on the outside are conflicted on the inside. Although a skeptic, Alexander had considered himself a nominal Christian, and the life of a Harvard neurosurgeon is certainly stressful. So maybe his spiritual trip was filling a void. As a believer who claims religious experiences, I could say the same about myself. Freud would have been in hog heaven himself over some of this material: a patient who had been separated from his birth family at an early age and encountered a beautiful blue-eyed young spirit guide to whom he felt emotionally drawn. After his recovery, he recognized her from a photograph as a sister he had never known. Spooky! Or, as Freud might surmise, did he project the image of the sister in the photo onto his memory of the dream girl?

The content of the visions themselves, as Alexander describes them, have a dreamlike, trippy quality and seem to incorporate familiar cliches. First of all, the whole thing is suspiciously reminiscent of Dante's Paradiso, complete with female guide. Many of the images are vague and sketchy, occurring in segments described as "the gateway,""the core", "the earth worm's view, etc. He begins with a vague awareness of on-going void, with no real thoughts. Then things pick up, as he went through a gateway and floated over fluffy clouds, encountering "transparent shimmering beings" soaring through the sky--higher forms making joyful music of incredible beauty. He went riding over an Eden-like landscape on the wing of a giant butterfly with his beautiful woman guide flying beside him in her peasant blouse (the dude has a hobby of skydiving), with millions of butterflies all around. Some of it was an unpleasant "wormy-type" underworld in which he went burrowing through "dirty, jellow-like mud". In a vision reminiscent of the Gita, he saw: "the abundance of life throughout the countless universes, some whose intelligence was advanced beyond that of humanity." And his spirit guide left him with three reassuring thoughts: (1) you are loved and cherished; (2) you have nothing to fear; and (3) there is nothing you can do wrong. He reports that he absorbed vast amounts of knowledge that he can't recall. That reminds me of one of my buddies who thought he encountered God and the meaning of life on an LSD trip, and wrote it all down. But later when he looked at what he'd written, couldn't make head nor tail out of any of it.

So what can we make of this? I store it in my X-files, along with my friend's account of the time his leg wound healed miraculously overnight after he slept in a pyramid. Or my other friend, otherwise very straight, who claims to be able to see auras and can teach me to do it, too. I guess some day I'll have to take him up on that. Scholarly credentials and training don't seem to immunize people from this stuff. A.J. Ayer, militant atheist and leader of the school of logical positivism teaching that anything that can't be verified empirically is nonsense had an NDE. In his case, it was a red light instead of the typical white light (uh,oh!) He said "My recent experiences, have slightly weakened my conviction that my genuine death ... will be the end of me, though I continue to hope that it will be."

 

yea i'll totally believe anything from a website called divinitynow.com

no way they could be biased

 

There you go. Only the toughest guys & girls get sent to this shithole of a planet.

If you can make it here you can make it anywhere.

 

wow okiefreak your no okie but you are freaky

love your vocabulary

But i am at a loss to your freakyness

 

Interesting phenomena but doesn't bare proof of heaven, nor an afterlife - also eyewitness testimony is the lowest form of evidence there is so don't be fool by such.

Hmm interesting how the religious will cling on to scientific evidence (not that the story in the OP bares any evidence)that's back their beliefs but shun the evidence that confines it :/