"Proof of Heaven" - Mike McManus
"Proof of Heaven"
By Mike McManus
May 29, 2013
Eben Alexander III, a neurosurgeon, taught at Harvard Medical School for 15 years. His scientific worldview undermined his ability "to believe in something larger," such as God.
He viewed the brain as a "machine that produces the phenomenon of consciousness." That left little room for the words he heard in church about "life everlasting," as he wrote in his new book, Proof of Heaven.
At age 58 he awoke one morning with an acute headache. Within hours he was in a coma that lasted seven days. He'd contracted bacterial meningitis, and had only a 10 percent chance of survival. Doctors believed that if he emerged from the coma he would be in a chronic vegetative state.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
By Mike McManus
May 29, 2013
Eben Alexander III, a neurosurgeon, taught at Harvard Medical School for 15 years. His scientific worldview undermined his ability "to believe in something larger," such as God.
He viewed the brain as a "machine that produces the phenomenon of consciousness." That left little room for the words he heard in church about "life everlasting," as he wrote in his new book, Proof of Heaven.
At age 58 he awoke one morning with an acute headache. Within hours he was in a coma that lasted seven days. He'd contracted bacterial meningitis, and had only a 10 percent chance of survival. Doctors believed that if he emerged from the coma he would be in a chronic vegetative state.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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