This is a particularly excellentexample of lucid dreaming. If you havenever experienced this, you will find it difficult to credit the effect. It is seriously different from simpledreaming. I have personally experiencedthe effect once during a rare afternoon nap.
My experience was brief anddifferent from this. Meditation attemptsto guide you into this state with the master acting as your guide. However, reports from those unguided by aknown master such as this doctor show the appearance of a guide anyway. In my own case a guide stepped up who I didnot properly see or recognize.
What is common is the appearance of a guideand the sense of complete trust. I amstrongly reminded of Dante’s Guide.
Not surprisingly, the doctor isrightly awed by his experience as this experience is surely more real in sensoryvalues than the living world in which we live.
And yes, you come out of such anexperience convinced of the reality of the afterlife itself. In my case I searched for data and received datathat I could not have imagined and recognized this fact as well.
Heaven is real, says neurosurgeon who claims to have visited theafterlife
By EricPfeiffer, Yahoo! News | The Sideshow – Tue,9 Oct, 2012
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/heaven-real-says-neurosurgeon-claims-visited-afterlife-213527063.html
Dr. Eben Alexander claims to have visited the afterlife (Twitter)Dr. Eben Alexander has taughtat Harvard Medical School and has earned a strong reputation as a neurosurgeon.And while Alexander says he's long called himself a Christian, he never helddeeply religious beliefs or a pronounced faith in the afterlife.
But after a week in a coma during the fall of 2008, during which hisneocortex ceased to function, Alexander claims he experienced a life-changingvisit to the afterlife, specifically heaven.
"According to current medical understanding of the brain and mind,there is absolutely no way that I could have experienced even a dim and limitedconsciousness during my time in the coma, much less the hyper-vivid andcompletely coherent odyssey I underwent," Alexander writes in thecover story of this week's edition of Newsweek.
So what exactly does heaven look like?
Alexander says he first found himself floating above clouds beforewitnessing, "transparent, shimmering beings arced across the sky, leavinglong, streamer like lines behind them."
He claims to have been escorted by an unknown female companion and sayshe communicated with these beings through a method of correspondence thattranscended language. Alexander says the messages he received from those beingsloosely translated as:
"You are loved and cherished, dearly, forever."
"You have nothing to fear."
"There is nothing you can do wrong."
From there, Alexander claims to have traveled to "an immense void,completely dark, infinite in size, yet also infinitely comforting." Hebelieves this void was the home of God.
He's chronicled his experience in a new book, "Proof ofHeaven: A neurosurgeon's journey into the afterlife," which will bepublished in late October.
"I'm still a doctor, and still a man of science every bit as muchas I was before I had my experience," Alexander writes. "But on adeep level I'm very different from the person I was before, because I've caughta glimpse of this emerging picture of reality. And you can believe me when Itell you that it will be worth every bit of the work it will take us, and thosewho come after us, to get it right."