Doctor who fell into a coma after suffering from meningitis explains what he experienced 'in Heaven'

Only a handful of people go through the process of dying, before coming back to the land of the living. These people often choose to share their experiences to raise awareness on our purpose on Earth. One man who was declared brain-dead for three days explained what he saw in the afterlife. Today, we are focusing on a top American doctor who fell into a coma at the hospital, and ended up in Heaven. Here's what he said.

Dr. Eben Alexander suffered from bacterial meningitis

American neurosurgeon Dr. Eben Alexander had a near-death experience in 2008. He started suffering from painful headaches while he was working at the Lynchburg General Hospital, in Virginia, USA. According to his book, entitled The Map of Heaven, he explained:

Within a few hours, I went into a coma: my neocortex, the part of the brain that handles all the thought processes making us human, had shut down completely.

His colleagues diagnosed him with bacterial meningitis, which was inflaming his spinal cord, and 'eating into his brain like acid'. Since he started having seizures, his fellow doctors put him in a medically-induced coma to relieve the pain, and his chances of survival were close to zero. He wrote:

Scans showed no conscious activity whatever - my brain was not malfunctioning, it was completely unplugged. But my inner self still existed, in defiance of all the known laws of science.

He explains what he experienced in Heaven

During his coma, Dr. Alexander says he visited a mysterious place, none other than Heaven itself. He explains:

My consciousness went on a voyage through a series of realms, each one more extraordinary than the last - a journey beyond the physical world and one that, until then, I would certainly have dismissed as impossible.

He claims he saw a divine light, and heard music, which he calls the Spinning Melody. He travelled deeper into this other world, and eventually he met 'an extraordinarily beautiful woman' who made him feel safe and loved.

Without actually speaking, she let me know that I was loved and cared for beyond measure and that the universe was a vaster, better, and more beautiful place than I could ever have dreamed.

The doctor then woke up from his coma, and miraculously recovered. However, four months later, Dr. Alexander received a letter, informing him that his biological sister - he already knew he had been adopted - had died before he got a chance to meet her. At least, that's what he thought. Indeed, after finding a photograph of Betsy, his sister, he found out she had been the woman he met in Heaven. He concludes:

This is the story of how I was reunited with her - in heaven.

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