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Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife Eben Alexander MD
“I have no argument with those who say [DMT] can produce a very powerful psychedelic experience;
maybe one with genuine implications for our understanding of what consciousness. And reality, actually
are.”
However, it remains a fact that DMT effects the neocortex, and if there is no neocortex to be effected,
then DMT can’t explain the NDE experience. P 142
Everything – the uncanny clarity of my vision, the clearness of my thoughts as pure conceptual flow –
suggested higher, not lower brain function. But my higher brain had not been around to do that work. P
143
Many others have seen that astonishing clarity of mind that often comes to demented elderly people
just beore they pass on (termed ‘terminal lucidity’. P. 146.
Over the last few decades, many leaders in the neuroscience of consciousness have come to realize the
‘hard problem of consciousness’, defined by David Chalmers in his 1996 book, The Conscious Mind. P
152.
Robert A Monroe, founder of the Monroe Institute, in Faber, Va. Key: I am more than my physical body.
Developed ‘hemi-sync audio technology.