Eban Alexander's New Book

Most of the NDE researchers are not neurosurgeons and have not had an NDE themselves. Alexander is a neurosurgeon so he has a lot to add about what the brain is capable of and isn't capable of, and because he is an experiencer and understands both the experience and the brain he is unique in the field.

I can't see how his training helps... He has come to the conclusions he has now by setting aside what he learned previously (he admits this). His personal experience trumps his schooling...
 
http://iands.org/news/news/front-pa...cle-on-eben-alexander-distorts-the-facts.html
In response to Dittrich's exposé, Dr. Alexander issued the following statement:

I wrote a truthful account of my experiences in Proof of Heaven and have acknowledged in the book both my professional and personal accomplishments and my setbacks. I stand by every word in this book and have made its message the purpose of my life. Esquire's cynical article distorts the facts of my 25-year career as a neurosurgeon and is a textbook example of how unsupported assertions and cherry-picked information can be assembled at the expense of the truth.
 
Do you have a reference for that?

The main article I went off of was this:

http://iands.org/news/news/front-pa...cle-on-eben-alexander-distorts-the-facts.html

That completely clears him in regards to a factual account of his NDE as told in his book, but doesn't refute everything said about how he carried himself as a doctor before the NDE.

I also wrote a couple blog articles that I think called out a couple remarkable facts about his NDE, not too many other people seem to agree with, but not sure why!

http://exploreabitmore.blogspot.com/2013/08/eben-alexander-esquire-update.html

http://exploreabitmore.blogspot.com/2013/04/eben-alexander-neurosurgeons-nde.html
 
Does anybody actually know that Alexander ever did anything illegal or unethical? Lawsuits have been mentioned, I've noticed. What became of them? It's not entirely unusual for a surgeon to be sued. A lawsuit in itself obviously isn't revealing of anything. Did he ever have his licenses suspended or anything like that?
 
Does anybody actually know that Alexander ever did anything illegal or unethical? Lawsuits have been mentioned, I've noticed. What became of them? It's not entirely unusual for a surgeon to be sued. A lawsuit in itself obviously isn't revealing of anything. Did he ever have his licenses suspended or anything like that?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...d-3million-malpractice-lawsuit-fell-coma.html





From the UK's Daily Fail I'm afraid, but I don't think there's any dispute around this. If there was, given the UK libel laws Dr Alexander wouldn't need to write another book :)
 
Does anybody actually know that Alexander ever did anything illegal or unethical? Lawsuits have been mentioned, I've noticed. What became of them? It's not entirely unusual for a surgeon to be sued. A lawsuit in itself obviously isn't revealing of anything. Did he ever have his licenses suspended or anything like that?

I don't think he was suspended - I recall reading he was fined. If he was suspended, I don't think it was long. Altering medical records is a big no-no, personally I'd see it as a breach of trust even in the most trivial case, but I suspect it happens quite often. I was in A&E here with my pa only the other week and heard a discussion between two nurses, one of whom told the other to change the admission time of a patient (by a couple of hours).

As for a lawsuit against a doctor? In America? I bet that's quite rare ;)

Fyi: http://www.healthgrades.com/physician/dr-eben-alexander-2vqf2/background-check
 
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I don't think he was suspended - I recall reading he was fined. If he was suspended, I don't think it was long. Altering medical records is a big no-no, personally I'd see it as a breach of trust even in the most trivial case, but I suspect it happens quite often. I was in A&E here with my pa only the other week and heard a discussion between two nurses, one of whom told the other to change the admission time of a patient (by a couple of hours).

As for a lawsuit against a doctor? In America? I bet that's quite rare ;)

Fyi: http://www.healthgrades.com/physician/dr-eben-alexander-2vqf2/background-check

He was disciplined and fined. I posted links in one of the old threads on him.
 
But really... Look at him.... Just look at him. :D
You may have a point. Not that I advocate judging somebody's aspect to infer behavior... but the subjective experience of looking at the guy in video gives off a bad vibe.
 
I think with most NDErs people agree the person had some kind of experience, but the disagreement lies in what the experience means.

With Alexander, people like me wonder if he had any kind of experience at all. There does remain his recovery, which apparently had a low probability of occurring.

But it would be quite the embarrassment if he - or someone closed to him - confessed no visions were had.
 
You may have a point. Not that I advocate judging somebody's aspect to infer behavior... but the subjective experience of looking at the guy in video gives off a bad vibe.
My comment was (mostly) tongue in cheek. However, if they haven't cast the villain for the next Bond movie yet... I'm just saying...
 
Most of the NDE researchers are not neurosurgeons and have not had an NDE themselves. Alexander is a neurosurgeon so he has a lot to add about what the brain is capable of and isn't capable of (not just book learning but experience with patients), and because he is an experiencer and understands both the experience and the brain he is unique in the field.

And that is why the materialists are gunning for him. The fact that he thought consciousness was produced by the brain before his NDE but changed his mind afterward makes him an intolerable threat and explains why a materialist would lie in order to discredit him.

http://ncu9nc.blogspot.com/2012/10/neurosurgeon-dr-eben-alexander-heaven.html

Very well put, exactly so.
 
I can't see how his training helps... He has come to the conclusions he has now by setting aside what he learned previously (he admits this). His personal experience trumps his schooling...

Why wouldn't personal experience trump his schooling when what he was taught was only a theory anyway.
 
It's true that Dr Alexander made some kind of an error with a patient, it was during spine surgery and he took out the wrong vertebrae in a woman's spine but she recovered anyway and so he let it be. He's the first to do this, right ? :) In fact Doctors make mistakes all the time because.....they're human. They leave instruments in cavities and cut arteries accidently and worse as we all know.

I'm not a fan of any commercialism surrounding Dr Alexander but he seems to me to be a very decent sort even if he does wear a bow tie ( his tie actually spins around at very high speed to keep the flies of the meat during surgery. Pretty neat invention, Just so you know.
 
Why wouldn't personal experience trump his schooling when what he was taught was only a theory anyway.
Personal experience didn't actually trump his schooling, but his schooling didn't adequately explain his personal experience... so he had to keep on learning and looking for better explanations. Here's a guy that had the educational background to take a closer look at things, and he went through the standard checklist of mainstream explanations for this stuff and found them lacking. His only options were to be intellectually honest and admit mainstream science is lacking, or maybe he could have gone the pseudoskeptical route and hung out anonymously on internet forums (because going public is too embarrassing) trying to convince himself (and others) that he couldn't have experienced what he did, because... well...???... um. welll,... he just couldn't have.
 
Personal experience didn't actually trump his schooling, but his schooling didn't adequately explain his personal experience... so he had to keep on learning and looking for better explanations. Here's a guy that had the educational background to take a closer look at things, and he went through the standard checklist of mainstream explanations for this stuff and found them lacking. His only options were to be intellectually honest and admit mainstream science is lacking, or maybe he could have gone the pseudoskeptical route and hung out anonymously on internet forums (because going public is too embarrassing) trying to convince himself (and others) that he couldn't have experienced what he did, because... well...???... um. welll,... he just couldn't have.

Thanks, K9. I just meant that his personal experience showed him that consciousness was not created by the brain as he was taught .Cheers for your support, much appreciated.
 
So, is this gonna be like, an actual map of heaven, or is it just going to be a verbal description of gardens, the hall of records, light everywhere, etc. that we've already heard? If it's the former, I'm buying it without a doubt, but if it's the latter I may have more or less read it already.
 
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