Proof of Heaven
Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife
Abigail Alvarado
Rhetoric & Composition - English 1302
September 18, 2014
Abstract
Eben Alexander is a neurosurgeon who believed for many years that when people explained their near death experiences it was just the hard wiring of the brain. Of course ,though, he had refined medical training. It wasn't until Alexander had caught a rare disease which caused him to fall into a coma and had a near death experience himself. Alexander talks about his journey towards the afterlife in his book which leads to many questions to everyone as to whether it really happened or if it was all just a hallucination. The paper talks about how he recounts what happened during his experience while in a coma for seven days to prove heaven is real and what he experienced could not be explained in any way possible other than there is a heaven. It will explain whether he proved there was a heaven.
Proof of Heaven, published in 2012, was an interesting book about Eben Alexander, a neurosurgeon, and his near death experience. Throughout the book Alexander recounts everything that happened to him in his journey to heaven as well as clinical insights from his science background . The dispute between his rational, objective and scientific observations, on one hand, with the esoteric-sounding world he was experiencing in his coma, on the other, gives his narrative a unique, almost flamboyant quality. Alexander offers an array of his experiences in the afterlife and the agony his friends and family had to encounter, waiting and praying for seven days as he seemed to be slipping away under a coma caused by E. Coli meningitis. Many readers are taken by the uncertainty of Alexander surviving what he did, and even more by his experience when his brain was apparently turned off. Indeed, Alexander's recovery was a miracle but was his experience proof of heaven?
Alexander states that he was distant from religion by announcing
Abigail Alvarado
Rhetoric & Composition - English 1302
September 18, 2014
Abstract
Eben Alexander is a neurosurgeon who believed for many years that when people explained their near death experiences it was just the hard wiring of the brain. Of course ,though, he had refined medical training. It wasn't until Alexander had caught a rare disease which caused him to fall into a coma and had a near death experience himself. Alexander talks about his journey towards the afterlife in his book which leads to many questions to everyone as to whether it really happened or if it was all just a hallucination. The paper talks about how he recounts what happened during his experience while in a coma for seven days to prove heaven is real and what he experienced could not be explained in any way possible other than there is a heaven. It will explain whether he proved there was a heaven.
Proof of Heaven, published in 2012, was an interesting book about Eben Alexander, a neurosurgeon, and his near death experience. Throughout the book Alexander recounts everything that happened to him in his journey to heaven as well as clinical insights from his science background . The dispute between his rational, objective and scientific observations, on one hand, with the esoteric-sounding world he was experiencing in his coma, on the other, gives his narrative a unique, almost flamboyant quality. Alexander offers an array of his experiences in the afterlife and the agony his friends and family had to encounter, waiting and praying for seven days as he seemed to be slipping away under a coma caused by E. Coli meningitis. Many readers are taken by the uncertainty of Alexander surviving what he did, and even more by his experience when his brain was apparently turned off. Indeed, Alexander's recovery was a miracle but was his experience proof of heaven?
Alexander states that he was distant from religion by announcing
References: Alexander, E. (2012). Proof of heaven: A neurosurgeon 's journey into the afterlife. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.