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141 " Dogmatic religion is not open to people having direct access to those higher realms. "
― Eben Alexander , The Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion, and Ordinary People Are Proving the Afterlife
142 " Om understands and sympathizes with our human situation more profoundly and personally than we can even imagine because Om knows what we have forgotten, and understands the terrible burden it is to live with amnesia of the Divine for even a moment. "
― Eben Alexander , Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife
143 " Receive the prayers.You have healed others. Now is your turn to be healed.You are loved by many.Your body knows what to do. It is not your time to die. "
144 " That was it, exactly: an inky darkness that was also full to brimming with light. The "
145 " Paramount in any effort to comprehend reality at a deeper level is to understand that what you have been witnessing since before you were born—all of that stuff “out there”—has actually been an internal model: a construct within mind that we presume represents something that should be “out there. "
― Eben Alexander , Living in a Mindful Universe: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Heart of Consciousness
146 " The universe has no beginning or end, and "
147 " Mi experiencia me enseñó que la muerte del cuerpo y el cerebro no son el fin de la conciencia, que la experiencia humana continúa más allá de la tumba. Aún más importante, continúa bajo la mirada de un Dios que ama y se preocupa por cada uno de nosotros y por el destino del universo mismo y de todos los seres que lo habitan. "
148 " faces bubbled out of the muck, groaned or screeched, and then were gone again. I heard an occasional dull roar. Sometimes these roars changed to dim, rhythmic chants, chants that were both terrifying and weirdly familiar—as if at some point I’d known and uttered them all myself. As I had no memory of "
149 " Our choice is not whether or not to be interested in philosophical questions, but whether or not to become conscious of the fact that, as human beings, we can’t help but be. To "
150 " became aware of a smell: a little like feces, a little like blood, and a little like vomit. A biological smell, in other words, "
151 " Meanwhile, I was in a place of clouds. "
152 " Evil was necessary because without it free will was impossible, and without free will there could be no growth—no forward movement, no chance for us to become what God longed for us to be. Horrible and all-powerful as evil sometimes seemed to be in a world like ours, in the larger picture love was overwhelmingly dominant, and it would ultimately be triumphant "
153 " To say that there is still a chasm between our current scientific understanding of the universe and the truth as I saw it is a considerable understatement. I still love physics and cosmology, still love studying our vast and wonderful universe. Only I now have a greatly enlarged conception of what “vast” and “wonderful” really mean. The physical side of the universe is as a speck of dust compared to the invisible and spiritual part. "
154 " puffy, pink-white ones that showed up sharply against the deep blue-black sky. "
155 " 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. "
156 " palpable and almost material, like a rain that you can feel on your skin but that doesn’t get you wet. Seeing and hearing were 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 "
157 " There is a considerable difference between believing something, and knowing it. It is crucial not to simply believe what others say and then adopt those beliefs, including everything stated in this book. It is most beneficial to learn firsthand, to cultivate and trust personal experience in order to develop an inner capacity of knowing. Each of us will proceed on a slightly different path, according to unique motivations and goals. Letting go of ingrained beliefs can be extremely valuable "
158 " In filter theory, the physical brain serves as the reducing valve or filter through which universal consciousness, or the Collective Mind, is filtered, or allowed in, to our more restricted human perception of the world around us. "
