12 Oct 2012(06:03:03)
Prominente médico estadounidense dice
que existe la vida después de la muerte
El conocido
neurocirujano estadounidense Eben Alexander relató a un semanario su viaje
"fuera del cuerpo" cuando estuvo en estado de coma. Según dijo fue
una odisea de siete días en lugares celestiales.
Alexander, académico y especialista de neurología de la
Universidad de Harvard, de 58 años de edad, le contó a la revista Newsweek que
se consideraba a sí mismo como cristiano, pero siempre estuvo muy lejos de la
iglesia y nunca creyó en la vida celestial. "Como un neurocirujano, yo no
creía en el fenómeno de las experiencias cercanas a la muerte", explicó.
En otoño de 2008 contrajo una meningitis bacteriana aguda
que le dañó la corteza cerebral, entró en estado de coma y tuvo que estar siete
días con un respirador artificial. Durante ese tiempo, tuvo experiencias en las
que participaron múltiples sentidos como la visión, la audición y el olfato.
Describió una "odisea completamente coherente" en un lugar del más
allá, lleno de mariposas y música que sacudió su punto de vista científico
sobre la conciencia humana.
Describió "el sonido de un canto glorioso que descendió
de lo alto". Alexander dijo que entró en un lugar lleno de nubes y se
encontró con una hermosa mujer de ojos azules. Contó que "era un lugar con
mariposas, alegría y grandes nubes rosadas hinchadas", donde estaba
acompañado por un ser a quien él consideraba como un ángel de la guarda.
Por ser huérfano, Alexander no sabía nada de sus hermanos
biológicos y cuando entró en contacto con ellos, una de sus hermanas ya había
fallecido. Cuando despertó, miró una fotografía que le dieron sus hermanos y
encontró que el "ángel de la guarda" era la hermana que había muerto.
Alexander dijo que "experimentó algo tan profundo" que le dio
"razones científicas para creer en la conciencia después de la muerte".
Fuentes:
RT.com
The prominent
neurosurgeon who is now convinced there’s a heaven after his out-of-body
experience
BY
IN2EASTAFRICA REPORTER ON OCTOBER 9, 2012
A top
neurosurgeon claims to have ‘Proof of heaven’ after making a full recovery from
a seven day coma that saw his neocortex inactivated.
Harvard-educated
Dr Eben Alexander, pictured, was skeptical about the after life before he was
struck with a nearly fatal bout of bacterial meningitis in 2008 in Virginia. He
says he had a ‘coherent odyssey’ to a place beyond filled with butterflies and
resounding music that has shaken his scientific viewpoint on human
consciousness.
Dr Eben
Alexander, who teaches neuroscience at Harvard University among others, fell
seriously ill after contracting a rare form of bacterial meningitis in 2008.
Within
hours of developing a severe headache, Dr Alexander’s entire cortex—the section
of the brain that controls thought and emotion —had shut down.
Though his
chances of survival were low, he awoke from the coma seven days later and began
describing an ‘other worldly experience’.
“I was in a
place of clouds. Big, puffy, pink-white ones that showed up sharply against the
deep blue-black sky,” he wrote in an article for Newsweek.
Dr
Alexander, pictured with a scan of his infected brain, was in a coma for seven
days and doctors did not believe he would emerge. A month later he had almost
fully recovered.
He also
goes on to describe “Flocks of transparent, shimmering beings arced across the
sky, leaving long, streamer-like lines behind them.”
While Dr
Alexander admits his scientific expertise has made him skeptical of afterlife
experiences, he claims the loss of function to his cortex makes his experiences
unique.
“I’m not
the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond
the body,” he said.
“I know
full well how extraordinary, how frankly unbelievable, all this sounds.”
The doctor
says the place he visited was filled with butterflies, music and angel-like
creatures more glorious than humans could ever imagine.
“But as far as I know, no one before me has
ever traveled to this dimension (a) while their cortex was completely shut
down, and (b) while their body was under minute medical observation, as mine
was for the full seven days of my coma.”
Dr
Alexander admits many still struggle to accept his story, particularly his
medical colleagues.
His
forthcoming book, “Proof of Heaven, A Neurosurgeon journey into the Afterlife”
that aims to dispel the skepticism will be published by Simon & Schuster
later this month.
“I’m still
a doctor, and still a man of science every bit as much as I was before I had my
experience,” he said. “But on a deep level I’m very different from the person I
was before, because I’ve caught a glimpse of this emerging picture of reality.”
Sources: Yahoo
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