Do we have souls? Is there life after death? These are questions that many often ponder. As a Christian I believe that we are souls who possess a spirit housed in bodies. We are eternal beings. There are many different views on these matters. Even within Christendom we don’t always agree on these questions. There are countless stories about individuals who claim to have returned to earth after experiencing an afterlife. I recently read the remarkable afterlife experience of a Harvard-trained brain surgeon.
Before his experience, he did not believe in the existence of a non-physical spirit. Skilled in western medicine and connected to colleagues who are intensely devoted to a materialistic outlook of the universe, he thought that the concept of a soul was foolish. Unlike other disbelievers, he thought accounts of life after death to be delusions or creations of the human mind (Bancarz).
Dr. Alexander altered his position after he was in a coma for seven days triggered by acute bacterial meningitis. Throughout his coma he underwent a lurid passage into what he recognized to be the afterlife, paying visits to divine and not so divine spheres. After coming back to his body and undergoing an amazing healing against all probabilities, he authored the NY Times #1 best-selling book “Proof of Heaven (Bancarz).”
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The book behaves as a model for the dead throughout the condition that occurs between death and the next rebirth. He is deemed to be one of the initial people to bring Buddhism to Tibet. The Bardo Thodol is a standard that is orated to the deceased during the time they are in between death and reincarnation so that they know the character of their mind and achieve deliverance from the sequence of rebirth (Evan-Wentz,
Before his experience, he did not believe in the existence of a non-physical spirit. Skilled in western medicine and connected to colleagues who are intensely devoted to a materialistic outlook of the universe, he thought that the concept of a soul was foolish. Unlike other disbelievers, he thought accounts of life after death to be delusions or creations of the human mind (Bancarz).
Dr. Alexander altered his position after he was in a coma for seven days triggered by acute bacterial meningitis. Throughout his coma he underwent a lurid passage into what he recognized to be the afterlife, paying visits to divine and not so divine spheres. After coming back to his body and undergoing an amazing healing against all probabilities, he authored the NY Times #1 best-selling book “Proof of Heaven (Bancarz).”
Dr. …show more content…
The book behaves as a model for the dead throughout the condition that occurs between death and the next rebirth. He is deemed to be one of the initial people to bring Buddhism to Tibet. The Bardo Thodol is a standard that is orated to the deceased during the time they are in between death and reincarnation so that they know the character of their mind and achieve deliverance from the sequence of rebirth (Evan-Wentz,