Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife

Eben Alexander

Oct 2012 · Simon and Schuster · Narrated by Eben Alexander

About this audiobook

The #1 New York Times bestselling account of a neurosurgeon's own near-death experience—for readers of 7 Lessons from Heaven.

Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those scientists. A highly trained neurosurgeon, Alexander knew that NDEs feel real, but are simply fantasies produced by brains under extreme stress.

Then, Dr. Alexander’s own brain was attacked by a rare illness. The part of the brain that controls thought and emotion—and in essence makes us human—shut down completely. For seven days he lay in a coma. Then, as his doctors considered stopping treatment, Alexander’s eyes popped open. He had come back.

Alexander’s recovery is a medical miracle. But the real miracle of his story lies elsewhere. While his body lay in coma, Alexander journeyed beyond this world and encountered an angelic being who guided him into the deepest realms of super-physical existence. There he met, and spoke with, the Divine source of the universe itself.

Alexander’s story is not a fantasy. Before he underwent his journey, he could not reconcile his knowledge of neuroscience with any belief in heaven, God, or the soul. Today Alexander is a doctor who believes that true health can be achieved only when we realize that God and the soul are real and that death is not the end of personal existence but only a transition.

This story would be remarkable no matter who it happened to. That it happened to Dr. Alexander makes it revolutionary. No scientist or person of faith will be able to ignore it. Reading it will change your life.

Ratings and reviews

This is the best book to really feel an experience through someone’s eyes that is exactly how I feel the experience of heaven would be. When he talked about being in heaven and he was communicating with someone who said he had to return, he said we didn’t speak like we communicate in humanity, we just knew and heard each other. Wow. I’m reading it again after all these years! I’ve sharing bits and pieces of this book with so many people and they all end up buying it too! Thank you for sharing your life with us!

All about his life, family, work etc. not much at all about an afterlife. Very disappointed in the book.

This book is amazing and inspiring. It brought me tears of joy. I highly recommend it.

About the author

Eben Alexander, MD, has been an academic neurosurgeon for the last twenty-five years, including fifteen years at the Brigham & Women’s and the Children’s Hospitals and Harvard Medical School in Boston. He is the author of Proof of Heaven and The Map of Heaven. Visit him at EbenAlexander.com.