His forthcoming book, "Proof of Heaven, A Neurosurgeon journey into the Afterlife" that aims to dispel the skepticism will be published by Simon & Schuster later this month.

you unbelievers...I'm ashamed of you...
refuse to be a victim of the one who lies to you....man up ...and refuse to be a victim, you are being robbed of something really easy on the stressload.

While reading this my mind was weighing up the possibilities of what was written in the article. Then getting to the end of the article finding out they are plugging his book right at the end, just makes me think its another guy trying to make money writting a book on something everyone wants to know.

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Originally posted by dominicus
Like the doc said, and ive been saying for the last decade, the current materialist model of brain and consciousness has cracks in its old arse foundation. Peaking through those cracks is a ripe spiritual reality which will eventually be quantified by science, unless the atheist bias goes out of its way to scoff and label as psuedo, anything "they" don't want investigated, for the sake of keeping alive the status quo.

'Old foundation'?

I have reason to believe that magical thinking about the brain is much more common and much older than the current materialistic view of human existence in its current form.

If science can somehow observe and measure these experiences in a repeatable way then it will, and will report back on them. Science by its very nature is materialistic given it observes things that can be measured. Not sure you can blame atheists for this separation.

As an atheist I can calmly say this wouldn't bring the world crashing down around my tiny ears.

Originally posted by CaptainBeno
Ok?? I guess It's time to believe?

I don't think so.

To him, his own experience may be more important than that of all other people before him that have had similar experiences, but to me it's just one more.

The fact is that he (or any other scientist) doesn't really know what was happening, so he shouldn't treat his own experience as if it had more weight as an evidence (which it does not).

I do believe that there is a soul and there is part that continues existence after death.
But!
A) Coma is not death.
B) Nobody goes to hell anymore ? All near death experience guys describe heaven,so i suspect it is some form of trauma managing mechanism of the brain.
But who knows, i could be wrong.

I am always bemused by the term near-death and I think people confuse it with death. Near-death is when a person comes perilously close to death but does not die. I believe the experience of the doctor who is the topic of this thread - had a near-death experience. His brain may not have been active but I bet his heart was still pumping the blood around his body. As long as the heart is pumping - you are alive aren't you????

When people ask me about my experience I always refer to it as my death experience. My heart stopped and I slipped away. I was away for only a few minutes as I was already in the back of an ambulance - so help was instant. I chose to come back. All I can say is beautiful and peaceful. As an artist I have tried to sketch my experience.

What the doctor describes is very visual. All I really know is that I experienced a sense of peace that I have never experienced here on earth - I wish I could have brought the 'peace' back with me to share. I spoke to my doctor about my experience and he states some people come back and their life takes on new meaning but others - it's as if it was just another day and their life remains unchanged.

Much Peace...