The Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion, and Ordinary People Are Proving the Afterlife

I’m a man of science, but I’ve seen heaven

by Eben Alexander

I had been working as an academic neurosurgeon for years, 

15 of them at Harvard Medical School.

As a sceptical neurosurgeon I dismissed patients’ visions of the afterlife. Then one day I had a violent seizure and found myself in a realm of indescribable beauty

I spend a lot of my days travelling around and talking to people about miracles. Not the kind confined to history books, or the stories of a friend-of-a-friend, but real miracles experienced by normal people.

That may sound strange enough in this day and age, but if you’d known me before November 2008 you’d have thought it was impossible.

I had been working as an academic neurosurgeon for years, 15 of them at Harvard Medical School. Since childhood I’d read Scientific American magazine cover to cover every month, wanting with my whole heart to be the sort of compassionate but ferociously intellectual doctor my father had been.

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