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Eben Alexander III (born December 11, 1953 in Charlotte , North Carolina , USA ) is an American neurosurgeon .

He is the author of the bestseller Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife , in which he describes his near-death experience from 2008 and claims that his case clearly shows that self-conscious experiences are not necessarily tied to the function of the cortex and that it is different There are areas of existence that lie outside of natural perception. The controversial book was published in German under the title Blick in die Ewigkeit .

Early life, family, education

Alexander is the descendant of a family of scientists, lawyers and doctors. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy (Class of 1972), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (AB, 1975), and Duke University School of Medicine (MD 1981).

Alexander was an intern in general surgery at Duke University Medical Center, resident at Duke, Newcastle (UK) General Hospital. He was a resident and research fellow at Brigham and Womens Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital and was certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery and the American College of Surgeons (FACS).

Professional background

Academic and clinical stations

Alexander has taught at Duke University Medical Center, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Harvard Medical School, University of Massachusetts Medical School, and University of Virginia Medical School.

He has worked at the following hospitals: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston Children's Hospital, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, and General Hospital-CentraHealth in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Other professional activities

Alexander is a member of the American Medical Association and several other professional societies. He has been a member of the editorial board of various magazines.

Book: Proof of Heaven

Alexander is the author of the 2012 autobiographical book Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into the Afterlife , in which he explains that he had an out-of-body experience and a near-death experience (NDE) during a meningitis-induced coma in 2008. He sees it as proof that consciousness is independent of the brain and death is only a transition into eternity. He further explains that the present understanding of the mind

"Now lying broken at our feet ... [because] ... What happened to me destroyed it, and I intend to spend the rest of my life exploring the true nature of consciousness and spending it on the fact that we are more, much more than our physical brain, as far as I can, both for my colleagues and for all people in general. "

Alexander's book was the cover story in Newsweek magazine in October 2012. In May 2012, Alexander wrote a more technical account of the events described in his book: My Experience in Coma, which appeared in AANS Neurosurgeon, the journal of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. Since the book's publication, he has lectured in churches, hospitals, medical schools, and scientific symposiums around the world, and has appeared on television shows such as Super Soul Sunday with Oprah Winfrey .

As of September 21, 2014, Proof of Heaven was on The New York Times Best Sellers list for 97 weeks.

Book: Map of Heaven

Alexander's second book Map of Heaven (German: Die Vermessung der Ewigkeit) was published in October 2014. There, Alexander again stated his conviction that there is life after death and that consciousness is independent of the brain. To support his views, he cited the writings of philosophers, scientists, and religious leaders in history, as well as letters from readers who told him of their own spiritual experiences that shared his own ideas.

Excerpts from the Map of Heaven were published in The Daily Mail in October 2014.

Map of Heaven also became a bestseller in the New York Times on week 18, October 2014.

Works

As an author
As editor

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Renown neurosurgeon Eben Alexander this at 91 (2004) . Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. Retrieved April 30, 2014.
  2. ↑ Dr. Just Alexander - NDE . NDE stories. Retrieved January 5, 2014.
  3. ↑ Alexander, Eben (2012), Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife , Simon & Schuster , pg 169.
  4. ↑ Alexander, Eben (2012), Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife , Simon & Schuster , pg 40.
  5. ↑ Alexander, Eben (October 8, 2012), "Heaven Is Real: A Doctor's Experience With the Afterlife" , Newsweek .
  6. ↑ Just Alexander III: My Experience in Coma . In: AANS Neurosurgeon . tape 21 , no. 2 , 2012 ( aansneurosurgeon.org [accessed November 23, 2012]). My Experience in Coma ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aansneurosurgeon.org
  7. ↑ Ingrid Peschke: Dr. Alexander Says It's Time for Brain Science to Graduate From Kindergarten. Huffington Post, October 24, 2013, accessed June 14, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Dr. Alexander Shares What God Looks Like. OWN TV, accessed June 14, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Best Sellers. In: Paperback Nonfiction. The New York Times, September 21, 2014, archived from the original October 1, 2014 ; accessed on October 1, 2014 .
  10. ↑ http://books.simonandschuster.com/Map-of-Heaven/Eben-Alexander/9781476766393
  11. ↑ Eben Alexander: What Heaven's Really Like - By a Leading Brain Surgeon Who Says He's Been There. In: [The Daily Mail]. October 17, 2014, accessed October 28, 2014 .
  12. ↑ Just Alexander: Are these glimpses of the after-life? Top brain surgeon who claims he saw heaven while in a coma reveals the stories of others who say they have had similar life-changing experiences. In: The Daily Mail . October 19, 2014, accessed October 28, 2014 .
  13. ↑ Eben Alexander: The wife who came back to earth as a butterfly: The poignant moment that a grieving husband lost his skepticism about the after-life. In: The Daily Mail . October 20, 2014, accessed October 28, 2014 .
  14. ^ New York Times. In: New York Times. November 2, 2014, archived from the original on October 28, 2014 ; accessed on October 28, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Alexander, just
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alexander, Eben III
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American neurosurgeon
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Charlotte, North Carolina