“Proof of Heaven” will be of interest to Brennan Healing Science Practitioners, their clients and anyone curious about what may happen to their consciousness at death. The author, Dr. Eben Alexander, a highly respected neurosurgeon, experienced a profound near-death experience (NDE) during a seven-day coma from which he was expected to die. In spite of his professional interest in the brain and how it works, he had never given any credence to numerous reports he had heard of NDEs because all of his training had excluded any possibility that such experiences exist.
Forced to re-examine his beliefs because of his experience of the ‘afterlife’, Dr. Alexander ’s account helps even skeptics consider the scientific possibility that our consciousness continues after we die and is in fact part of a universal, global consciousness. Of particular interest to Brennan Healing Science Practitioners is Dr. Alexander’s accounting of his NDE as it parallels much of what we might call ‘cellular awareness’, Core Star, and even the ‘Black Velvet Void’.
His systematic refuting of various ‘scientific’ theories of what happens in the brain when we die has heightened credibility because of his training as a neurosurgeon. His personal story is engaging and keeps the reader’s attention throughout. There is a study guide and appendixes that are also helpful. “Proof of Heaven” is a book for both the curious and the skeptic.
Reviewed by Lark Worth