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121 " In a very real sense, we seem to experience a greater sense of consciousness the less certain parts of our brain are actively functioning. "
― Eben Alexander , Living in a Mindful Universe: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Heart of Consciousness
122 " « Il n’y a que deux façons de vivre sa vie. L’une en faisant comme si rien n’était un miracle, l’autre en faisant comme si tout était un miracle. » — Albert Einstein (1879-1955) "
― Eben Alexander , Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife
123 " through, like the kind that spring up on the most perfect summer days, tossing the leaves of the trees and flowing past like heavenly water. A divine breeze. It changed everything, shifting the world around me into an even higher octave, a higher vibration. Although I still had little language "
124 " Eso no quiere decir que he abandonado mi trabajo médico y mi vida como neurocirujano. Pero ahora que he tenido el privilegio de comprender que nuestra vida no termina con la muerte del cuerpo o el cerebro, lo veo como mi deber, mi llamamiento, contarle a la gente sobre lo que vi más allá del cuerpo y de esta tierra. "
125 " understand how the brain might actually block our access to knowledge of the higher worlds, we need to accept—at least hypothetically "
126 " Knowledge was stored without memorization, instantly and for good. It didn’t fade, like ordinary information does, and to this day I still possess all of it, much more clearly than I possess the information that I gained over all of my years in school. That’s "
127 " How do we get closer to this genuine spiritual self? By manifesting love and compassion. Why? Because love and compassion are far more than the abstractions many of us believe them to be. They are real. They are concrete. And they make up the very fabric of the spiritual realm. "
128 " understood what religion was really all about. Or at least was supposed to be about. I didn’t just believe in God; I knew God. As I hobbled to the altar to take Communion, tears streamed down my cheeks. "
129 " Quantum physics results are quite baffling when viewed from the purely materialist perspective. "
130 " You are loved and cherished. You have nothing to fear. There is nothing you can do wrong. If I had to boil this entire message down to one sentence, it would run this way: You are loved. And "
131 " I continued moving forward and found myself entering an immense void, completely dark, infinite in size, yet also infinitely comforting. Pitch black as it was, it was also brimming over with light: "
132 " 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. It "
133 " his chair, just beneath his drawing of the battle between the white blood cell soldiers and the invading E. coli troops. “He doesn’t "
134 " the answer came instantly in an explosion of light, color, love, and beauty that blew through me like a crashing wave. What was important about these bursts was that they didn’t simply silence my questions by overwhelming them. They answered them, but in a way that bypassed language. Thoughts entered me directly. But it wasn’t thought like we experience on earth. It wasn’t vague, immaterial, or abstract. These thoughts were solid and immediate—hotter than fire and wetter than water—and as I received them I was able to instantly and effortlessly understand concepts that would have taken me years to fully grasp in my earthly life. "
135 " compared to the invisible and spiritual part. In my past view, spiritual wasn’t a word that I would have employed during a scientific conversation. Now I believe it is a word that we cannot afford to leave out. From the Core, my understanding of what we call “dark energy” and “dark matter” seemed to have clear explanations, as did far more advanced components of the makeup of our universe that humans won’t address for ages. "
136 " times You did some things You knew you shouldn’t do. "
137 " not separate in this place where I now was. I could hear the visual beauty of the silvery bodies of those scintillating beings above, and I could see the surging, joyful perfection of what they sang. "
138 " I saw the earth as a pale blue dot in the immense blackness of physical space. I could see that earth was a place where good and evil mixed, and that this constituted one of its unique features. Even on earth there is much more good than evil, but earth is a place where evil is allowed to gain influence in a way that would be entirely impossible at higher levels of existence. That evil could occasionally have the upper hand was known and allowed by the Creator as a necessary consequence of giving the gift of free will to beings like us. "
139 " Our truest, deepest self is completely free. It is not crippled or compromised by past actions or concerned with identity or status. It comprehends that it has no need to fear the earthly world, and therefore, it has no need to build itself up through fame or wealth or conquest. This "
140 " By now it had been raining for five days straight, ever since the afternoon "