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61 " My whole life has been a search for belonging. "
― Eben Alexander , The Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion, and Ordinary People Are Proving the Afterlife
62 " The realm of soul is like an ocean. "
63 " We can only see what our brain’s filter allows through. The brain—in particular its left-side linguistic/logical part, that which generates our sense of rationality and the feeling of being a sharply defined ego or self—is a barrier to our higher knowledge and experience "
― Eben Alexander , Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife
64 " in this place was different from the simple "
65 " Death: It is the greatest adventure. It is stunning that in western civilization we deny it to the degree that we do. Perhaps that goes a long way toward explaining our societal dysfunction. The "
66 " Death: It is the greatest adventure. It is stunning that in western civilization we deny it to the degree that we do. Perhaps that goes a long way toward explaining our societal dysfunction. "
67 " Observations,” he wrote, “not only disturb what is to be measured, they produce it.” This doesn’t necessarily mean that we make reality with our imaginations; but it does mean that consciousness is so tied up with reality that there is no way of conceiving reality without it. Consciousness is the true bedrock of existence. "
68 " There is no way to separate the observer from the observed. "
69 " To understand the world, we have to believe that the world makes sense, and that it is open to being understood by us. That is the hidden faith component in all science. "
70 " Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the Twenty-first Century. "
71 " That another world is trying to talk to us, and that the more we listen, the more we will understand. The twin streams of science and spirit, rather than fighting, are entwined "
72 " neuroscience has come to believe that all of our human qualities of language, reason, thought, auditory and visual perceptions, emotional forces, etc.—essentially all of the qualities of mental experience that become part of our human awareness—are directly derived from the most powerful calculator in the human brain: the neocortex. Although "
― Eben Alexander , Living in a Mindful Universe: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Heart of Consciousness
73 " The ascendance of the scientific method based solely in the physical realm over the past four hundred years presents a major problem: we have lost touch with the deep mystery at the center of existence—our consciousness. It was (under different names and expressed through different world-views) something known well and held close by pre-modern religions, but it was lost to our secular Western culture as we became increasingly enamored with the power of modern science and technology. "
74 " This earthly realm is, I believe, where we are meant to learn the lessons of unconditional love, compassion, forgiveness, and acceptance. Our knowing of our eternal spiritual nature is not meant to be as clear to us as the moon rising in the sky at night. Our ability to fully learn the most important lessons of life depends on our being partially veiled from that more complete (yet finite) knowing that our higher souls possess between lives. How "
75 " believe human beings will be able to access in ever larger numbers in the future. But conveying that knowledge now is rather like being a chimpanzee, becoming a human for a single day to experience all of the wonders of human knowledge, and then returning to one’s chimp friends and trying to tell them what it was like knowing several different Romance languages, the calculus, and the immense scale of the universe. "
76 " we have to recognize that we are spiritual beings with souls existing in a spiritual world as well as material beings with bodies and brains existing in a material world. —SIR JOHN C. ECCLES (1903–1997) "
77 " For those still stuck in the trap of scientific skepticism, I recommend the book Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century, published in 2007. The evidence for out-of-body consciousness is well presented in this rigorous scientific analysis. Irreducible Mind is a landmark opus from a highly reputable group, the Division of Perceptual Studies, based at the University of Virginia. The authors provide an exhaustive review of the relevant data, and the conclusion is inescapable: these phenomena are real, and we must try to understand their nature if we want to comprehend the reality of our existence. "
78 " recomiendo el libro Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century (La mente irreducible: hacia una psicología para el siglo XXI), publicado en 2007. "
79 " In fact, the greatest clue to the reality of the spiritual realm is this profound mystery of our conscious existence. This is a far more mysterious revelation than physicists or neuroscientists have shown themselves capable of dealing with, and their failure to do so has left the intimate relationship between consciousness and quantum mechanics—and thus physical reality—obscured. To "
80 " Human beings have been around in our modern form for about one hundred thousand years. For most of this time, three questions have been intensely important to us: Who are we? "