Summary
"Near-death experiences are controversial. Thousands of people have had them, but many in the scientific community have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those people. A highly trained neurosurgeon, Alexander knew that what people of faith call the "soul" is really a pro... Full description
- Prologue
- The pain
- The hospital
- Out of nowhere
- Eben IV
- Underworld
- An anchor to life
- The spinning melody and the gateway
- Israel
- The core
- What counts
- An end to the downward spiral
- The core
- Wednesday
- A special kind of NDE
- The gift of forgetting
- The well
- N of 1
- To forget, and to remember
- Nowhere to hide
- The closing
- The rainbow
- Six faces
- Final night, first morning
- The return
- Not there yet
- Spreading the news
- Homecoming
- The ultra-real
- A common experience
- Back from the dead
- Three camps
- A visit to church
- The enigma of consciousness
- A final dilemma
- The photograph.