Top 43 Eben Alexander Quotes
#1. Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn't.
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#2. I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.
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#3. Maneuvers toward you). It was exciting for the two junior members, but also for those of us who were more seasoned, because we were building the team, adding to the experience of jumpers who'd later be capable of joining us for even bigger formations. I was to be the
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#5. Later, Phyllis said that the one thing she remembered above all else about that week was the rain. A cold, driving rain from low-hanging clouds that never let up and never let the sun peek through. But then, that Sunday morning as she pulled her car into the hospital
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#6. I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as human history.
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#7. I finally chalked it up to the fact that the brain is truly an extraordinary device: more extraordinary than we can even guess.
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#9. Hallucinogens affect the neocortex, and my neocortex wasn't available to be affected.
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#10. There is, some say, in God a deep but dazzling darkness . . . That was it, exactly: an inky darkness that was also full to brimming with light.
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#11. This earthly realm is, I believe, where we are meant to learn the lessons of unconditional love, compassion, forgiveness, and acceptance.
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#12. Communicating with God is the most extraordinary experience imaginable, yet at the same time it's the most natural one of all, because God is present in us at all times. Omniscient, omnipotent, personal-and loving us without conditions. We are connected as One through our divine link with God.
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#13. True thought is pre-physical. This is the thinking-behind-the-thinking responsible for all the genuinely consequential choices we make in the world. A thinking that is not dependent on linear deduction, but that moves fast as lightning, making connections on different levels, bringing them together.
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#14. Everything - the uncanny clarity of my vision, the clearness of my thoughts as pure conceptual flow - suggested higher, not lower, brain functioning.
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#15. There are really no "objects" in the world at all, only vibrations of energy, and relationships.
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#16. There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.
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#18. We can only see what our brain's filter allows through.
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#19. Physical life is characterized by defensiveness, whereas spiritual life is just the opposite.
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#20. Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it.
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#21. The word human itself comes from the same root as humus, earth.
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#22. In the worlds above, I slowly discovered, to know and be able to think of something is all one needs in order to move toward it.
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#23. You are loved and cherished. You have nothing to fear. There is nothing you can do wrong. If I had to boil this entire message down to one sentence, it would run this way: You are loved. And if I had to boil it down further, to just one word, it would (of course) be, simply: Love.
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#24. A story-a true story-can heal as much as medicine can.
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#25. There were children, too, laughing and playing. The people sang and danced around in circles, and sometimes I'd see a dog, running and jumping among them, as full of joy as the people were.
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#26. Our eternal spiritual self is more real than anything we perceive in this physical realm, and has a divine connection to the infinite love of the Creator.
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#27. Not separate in this place where I now was. I could hear the visual beauty of the silvery bodies of those scintillating beings above, and I could see the surging, joyful perfection of what they sang.
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#28. I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon.
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#29. Most skeptics aren't really skeptics at all. To be truly skeptical, one must actually examine something, and take it seriously.
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#30. Omniscient, omnipotent, personal - and loving us without conditions.
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#31. We - each of us - are intricately, irremovably connected to the larger universe. It is our true home, and thinking that this physical world is all that matters is like shutting oneself up in a small closet and imagining that there is nothing else out beyond it.
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#32. My journey deep into coma, outside this lowly physical realm and into the loftiest dwelling place of the almighty Creator, revealed the indescribably immense chasm between our human knowledge and the awe-inspiring realm of God.
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#33. There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
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#34. None of us are ever unloved. Each and every one of us is deeply known and cared for by a Creator who cherishes us beyond any ability we have to comprehend.
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#36. You are loved and cherished, dearly, forever." "You have nothing to fear." "There is nothing you can do wrong.
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#37. Through, like the kind that spring up on the most perfect summer days, tossing the leaves of the trees and flowing past like heavenly water. A divine breeze. It changed everything, shifting the world around me into an even higher octave, a higher vibration. Although I still had little language
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#38. Angels? These words registered when I was writing down my recollections. But neither of these words do justice to the beings themselves, which were quite simply different from anything I have known on this planet. They were more advanced. Higher.
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#39. The brain itself does not produce consciousness. That it is, instead, a kind of reducing valve or filter, shifting the larger, nonphysical consciousness that we possess in the non physical worlds down into a more limited capacity for the duration of our mortal lives.
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#40. The (false) suspicion that we can somehow be separated from God is the root of every form of anxiety in the universe, and the cure for it - which I received partially within the Gateway and completely within the Core - was the knowledge that nothing can tear us from God, ever.
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#41. As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.
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#42. On the subatomic level, however, this universe of separate objects turns out to be a complete illusion. In the realm of the super-super-small, every object in the physical universe is intimately connected with every other object.
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#43. I continued moving forward and found myself entering an immense void, completely dark, infinite in size, yet also infinitely comforting. Pitch black as it was, it was also brimming over with light:
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