I'm sure everyone has heard of the book "Proof of Heaven" written by neurologist Dr. Even Alexander. The man has cashed in on it, and the book has been peddled by the likes of Dr. Phil and Oprah. Well, an expose has been written about the book citing numerous objections. You have to pay to read it, so I've only been able to read an article about it. Here it is...
http://www.dailygrail.com/Spirit-World/2...-Alexander
There are even claims that he made evidence against him disappear.
Someone's got some 'splainin' to do.
http://www.dailygrail.com/Spirit-World/2...-Alexander
Quote:Dittrich also disputes a number of the 'facts' recounted by Eben Alexander in Proof of Heaven, from the weather during his coma through to the claims about his coma. Most pertinent, given that much of the book revolves around the anomaly that he should not have been physically able to have his near-death experience due to being completely unconscious and with a non-functioning brain:
In Proof of Heaven, Alexander writes that he spent seven days in "a coma caused by a rare case of E. coli bacterial meningitis." There is no indication in the book that it was [ER doctor] Laura Potter, and not bacterial meningitis, that induced his coma, or that the physicians in the ICU maintained his coma in the days that followed through the use of anesthetics. Alexander also writes that during his week in the ICU he was present "in body alone," that the bacterial assault had left him with an "all-but-destroyed brain." He notes that by conventional scientific understanding, "if you don't have a working brain, you can't be conscious," and a key point of his argument for the reality of the realms he claims to have visited is that his memories could not have been hallucinations, since he didn't possess a brain capable of creating even a hallucinatory conscious experience.
I ask Potter whether the manic, agitated state that Alexander exhibited whenever they weaned him off his anesthetics during his first days of coma would meet her definition of conscious.
"Yes," she says. "Conscious but delirious."
There are even claims that he made evidence against him disappear.
Someone's got some 'splainin' to do.
