I read with interest an account of a near death experience by Harvard professor Eben Alexander who is a successful neurosurgeon, who has taught at Harvard Medical School and other universities. He spent his life dismissing claims of heavenly out-of-body experiences and refuting such talk with scientific logic, until he himself had a near-death experience. He was an atheist until he experienced a coma lasting seven days that was induced by bacterial meningitis.
During that time, Dr. Eben Alexander says he saw heaven and knows the afterlife exists. Now he’s telling the world in his new book, “Proof of Heaven.”
He describes it in part as follows:
“Toward the beginning of my adventure, I was in a place of clouds. Big, puffy, pink-white ones that showed up sharply against the deep blue-black sky.
Higher than the clouds—immeasurably higher—flocks of transparent, shimmering beings arced across the sky, leaving long, streamerlike lines behind them.
Birds? Angels? These words registered later, when I was writing down my recollections. But neither of these words do justice to the beings themselves, which were quite simply different from anything I have known on this planet. They were more advanced. Higher forms.
A sound, huge and booming like a glorious chant, came down from above, and I wondered if the winged beings were producing it. Again, thinking about it later, it occurred to me that the joy of these creatures, as they soared along, was such that they had to make this noise—that if the joy didn’t come out of them this way then they would simply not otherwise be able to contain it. The sound was palpable and almost material, like a rain that you can feel on your skin but doesn’t get you wet.”
Eventually, the neurosurgeon awoke from the coma. He penned a book, “Proof of Heaven,” describing his journey.
Alexander says that he traveled through this heaven, surrounded by “millions of butterflies,” with a woman. This woman gave him three messages: “You are loved and cherished, dearly, forever,” “You have nothing to fear” and “There is nothing you can do wrong.” You can watch his personal account of his experience by following this link: Eben Alexander, Harvard Neurosurgeon, Describes Heaven After Near-Death Experience (VIDEO)
I had a near death experience quite different and I described it in my book Miracle on Luckie Street. In my coma I was in inky blackness and after reviewing my sin-filled life I saw heaven shimmering in dazzling warm light far in the distance but I was swept away from it towards the abyss and was given a foretaste of hell.
It was horrible.
I saw satan laughing hysterically as he watched his demons dance around a cauldron that boiled my flesh from my skull, and it scared the fire out of me. I did not feel loved and I saw plenty to fear.
I like the reassurance the woman gave to Alexander in his coma: “You are loved and cherished, dearly, forever,” “You have nothing to fear” and “There is nothing you can do wrong.”
I suppose God occasionally opens windows to heaven and hell for His own purpose. My experience is forever seared into my brain as I’m sure Dr. Alexander’s is in his.
I look forward to heaven with great anticipation. It’s hard to imagine that so many people will end up in hell, but the Bible is clear that many will choose that road. Just as the two thieves on the cross made their decisions with one entering paradise that very day and the other entering hell, we have our choice to make. Use your free will wisely and accept Jesus Christ as your Savior today. Time is running out.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.