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JANEY LEE GRACE: HOW GOD HELD ON TO ME
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Neurosurgeon stuns scientific world with his revelations
Dr Eben Alexander... experienced a spiritual journey during a seven-day coma
heaven A top neurosurgeon has stunned the scientific world by claiming he has proof that heaven exists.
For years Dr Eben Alexander, a respected academic, dismissed near-death revelations of God and heaven, saying they were explained by the way the human brain is wired. But then in 2008 Dr Alexander contracted bacterial meningitis. The deadly infection
soaked his brain and sent him into a deep coma lasting seven days. In the days that followed his life was slipping away, but Dr Alexander says that he was living intensely in his mind.
He claims he journeyed beyond this world and encountered an angelic being who guided him into the deepest realms of super-physical existence. There he met, and spoke with, the Divine source of the universe itself. Dr Alexander’s story is not a fantasy. Before he
underwent his journey, he could not reconcile his knowledge of neuroscience with any belief in heaven, God, or the soul.
Today he is a doctor who believes that true health can be achieved only when we realize that God and the soul are real and that death is not the end of personal existence but only a transition.
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