There is no shortage today of fanciful tales of heavenly visits and "near death experiences." We all are familiar with the claims of a calming, bright, white light and the inevitable subsequent book that will follow a person's return from this brief sojourn to eternity. It seems that, just as one person's alleged story of a heavenly field trip fades from the mind of the public, another appears to take its place. This week, the media is reporting on the story of neurosurgeon Eben Alexander, who purportedly visited heaven while in a coma for seven days in 2008. Of course, most will not be surprised to know that Alexander has recorded his experience in a book entitled, Proof of Heaven.Alexander, who prior to the event considered himself a "faithful Christian...more in name than in actual belief" (a concept that seems to be self-contradictory), has landed himself a cover story in Newsweek magazine, wherein he tells the tale of this seemingly inexplicable event. Dr. Alexander writes:
Very early one morning four years ago, I awoke with an extremely intense headache. Within hours, my entire cortex—the part of the brain that controls thought and emotion and that in essence makes us human—had shut down. Doctors at Lynchburg General Hospital in Virginia, a hospital where I myself worked as a neurosurgeon, determined that I had somehow contracted a very rare bacterial meningitis that mostly attacks newborns. E. coli bacteria had penetrated my cerebrospinal fluid and were eating my brain.
When I entered the emergency room that morning, my chances of survival in anything beyond a vegetative state were already low. They soon sank to near nonexistent. For seven days I lay in a deep coma, my body unresponsive, my higher-order brain functions totally offline.
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