Proof of Heaven by Eben Alexander

Proof of Heaven by Eben Alexander III M.D.

Publisher: Simon & Schuster (October 2012)

208 pages, Audiobook (purchased myself for $17.95)

Book Rating: 5 Stars

More of a recount of an experience then a scientific analysis, Proof of Heaven is an engaging read that gave me a greater understanding of our existence.  

The book is an account of Dr. Eben Alexander’s near death experience.  He contracts a severe form of E. Coli meningitis and quickly falls into a coma.  During the coma he experiences a journey to a place of peace. It starts as cloudy place, which he calls the worm’s eye view.  He then journeys to a sunny pasture land where he meets a lovely women who becomes his guide.  Finally he finds himself in a place that he describes as being in the middle of God himself.  After seven days in coma, Dr. Eben miraculously wakes up from his coma and fully recovers.

Even though this book is not empirical scientific proof of the existence of heaven, his neurological explanations of the impossibility of his experience gives me hope that there really is more to this existence that our short time here on earth.  I would recommend this to anybody with an openness to the possibility of an existence of life after death.  If you completely don’t believe in an afterlife, this book will most likely not help.