Consciousness beyond brain function, with neurosurgeon Dr. Eben Alexander 

Having lost my 12 year old boy tragically, you guys give me so much hope. Not that this should be your goal, but that what I have experienced and intuited since losing him, you seem to be confirming through data and logic. Thank you.

Great messages Eben. Love the part about how it's not about getting the most toys and competition vs cooperation. It's high-time we all learned that important lesson.

Such an important message to move humanity towards light.

Bernardo and Eben convo please!

This one gave me goosebumps! I'm so thankful for having learned English and then come across such a life changing wisdom 🙏

Interesting to see Essentia in open conversation with Eben Alexander. Philosophy in action. Thanks to the Internet philosophy is finally moving outside of the Ivory Tower and back where it belongs: in the world, among all people seeking for wisdom. Excellent interview -- thanks Bernardo & Essentia.

How marvellous - thank you

Thank you for this interview with Dr. Alexander. I ordered his three books. He seems to have connected a lot of dots-not so much to explain all mysteries, but to affirm that they actually exist.

Bravo Dr. Alexander for opening our eyes to understanding the facets our individual conscience and how we are all linked together….

I have found Bernardo's modern prophetic wisdom pretty recently and just few days ago I started reading Eben's book. Amazing.

Thank you both …INSPIRING

Thank you so much for sharing this conversation.

Get ‘em Eben. Love this guy. And it is all true

Wonderful interview 👏 Thank you all !

So glad to see this interview on Essentia Foundation!! NDEs are invaluable and essential in laying materialism to rest. Would love to see a conversation between Bernardo and Eben, especially with regard to the self-awareness of the universal mind. Bernardo often says that mind at large does not possess meta cognition but this seems in contrast to what NDErs (like Eben) report experiencing firsthand. Would be a fascinating discussion to hear! Thank you! Bravo!

"I am aware of my thoughts, therefore I am". Yes.

This is an excellent interview wherein Eben once again articulates SO WELL both his personal experience as well as the implications of consciousness linked to the divine. I am very concerned with 2 areas of society’s materialistic trajectory currently. 1) Currently, our nervous systems are increasingly being perturbed by electromagnetic emissions from telecommunications hardware. This hardware includes active cell phones, routers, and cell towers. I find there is a very real emotional transition from emotional states that are, on average, more vibrant, calm, peaceful, and energetic when I am physically not within range of any active devices, verses, emotional states that are more apathetic, distraught, and disassociated when I am within range. My hypothesis is that, much like the disassociated state of mind experienced while being in a dark room and being made to view a strobe light (visible-spectrum light), portions of our nervous system that link to our mental and emotional states are being similarly affected by the strobe-like oscillations of radio frequencies (microwave-spectrum light) emitted from the telecommunications hardware. These emissions transmit through our bodies and influence the conductive pathways of our nervous systems along the way. 2) Neuralink. The communion we have with the divine through our mind is sacred. Is it problematic in any way to this sacred communion to introduce such an interruptive element to our physical brains? I would like to know what Eben thinks about these subjects.

Interesting and exhausting. One track guy. Good for him. Fortunately I don’t need to die to know. LOVE is the binding force that holds the constellations of all things together…

Awareness is not individual.❤️

Eben if you are listening I so wish that I could also have an expanding consciousness experience like you

Can we get Essentia videos in audio podcast format on Spotify for listening on the road?

Looking carefully into the description of what dr. Eben Alexander experienced, he was concious traveling to what he calls heaven while he was in coma; his brain was completely destroyed cell by cell. However, there is some baffling, frustrating and unclear points about his description. First...he said that he was conscious as an observer but he was unconscious about himself and his family on earth; he didn't remember anything about what he had experienced back on earth. According to his book, Proof of Heaven, he didn't even recognize who he himself was or people around him including his sons when he got back from coma. It was only after a few weeks later when he got his normal brain function back that he started recognizing his family members and getting the knowledge back that he had gotten here on earth. Of course, he was amnesiac from the damage by the bacterial infection...but if we should be conscious beyond our brain, don't we have to know who we are, at least in heaven, if not on earth where we might be under the influence of physical body like brain? It would be so frustrating if my mom didnt recognize me in heaven. If anybody has an idea or answer to this, please let me know. I will really appreciate it.

The gateway valley sounds similar to CS Lewis' The Great Divorce.

Dr Eben Alexander said that he didn't recognize who he himself was during the journey through heaven in his nde. It seems to be quite different from others with nde. Can it be because he was brain dead during the 7 days of coma, which means the consciousness was still under the influence of brain function?

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this is what Descartes actually said in the Meditations: “Adeo ut, omnibus satis superque pensitatis, denique statuendum sit hoc pronuntiatum, Ego sum, ego existo, quoties a me profertur, vel mente concipitur, necessario esse verum” “De sorte qu’après y avoir bien pensé, et avoir soigneusement examiné toutes choses, enfin il fault conclure, et tenir pour constant que cette proposition: Je suis, j’existe, est nécessairement vraie, toutes les fois que je la prononce, ou que je la conçois en mon esprit.” “So after considering everything very thoroughly, I must finally conclude that this proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind.” - Descartes 2nd Meditation 25

I've listened to other NDEs and have been suspect. Especially since I nearly died twice, with no NDE. The only explanation is that shortly before my emergency Medical event, I had a dream of driving into a Danger Zone. I was stopped at a Guard Station where I was prevented from passing through. At no time during my extended ICU Hospitalization was I fearful of dying. Then, while in a Rehab another rather unexpected event occurred. I was whisked off to two different local hospitals. It was clear to me that nurses expected me to die. Again, I had no fear. Although, at the first hospital I thought it could be a possibility. Here I am, 20 years later - disabled yet very much alive!

The name's Bond...You only live twice

How can materialism be defeated if neuroscience works under materialism?

I’m surprised that Eben has been allowed to speak with Essentia, since his track record is kinda shady. This channel has had some great people in it, like Markus Müller, etc. Dr Eben has had malpractice lawsuits and his book has been criticized for having factually inaccurate information. I love this channel and I really believe in Kastrup’s project, so seeing Eben here is not a pleasant sight for me.

There's a certain cognitive dissonance going on... what I'm hearing is right on - the message really resonates with me - but what I'm seeing is a man living in a luxurious house, the carbon footprint of which is equal to that of scores of people living in Africa; no doubt a big car on the drive and jet flights hither and yon to appear at conferences worldwide. Stoking an ego? Correct?

Thank you for sharing. Just an observation: to say that God is scientificaly proved (1:02:41) not is just bad for science and religion, but also can be a dangerous assumption that can lead to religious extremism and fanatism.

Great interview. I also read your book.. Proof of Heaven. I am not preaching. In the Holy Quran, it is mentioned multiple times that the entire life system and the universe is encompassed by Rahmat, akin to the Arabic word meaning love (blessings) from the Almighty!

This sounds like the successor to Pim van Lommel

The woman 'interviewing' must have one burnt ear, this guy is non-stop!

HEBREWS 9:27💣💥👑💥💣💥👑💥🧠

My father died when I was 10! 6 months later I had a lucid dream about my dad! Woke up in the dream and he was at the end of my bed? And I said, what are you doing? Here you died and he said I didn’t die I just went away then I got really pissed and I said do you know what mom‘s been going through since you went away and he said Steve you don’t understand it’s like a radio. I’ve change the station and I’m not on the same station. You all are of course that didn’t help me much so he took me out into the universe and show me some things which I don’t quite remember then he was talking me back in bed and asking me if I was OK and I said yes I understand now!

Then why do those who die experience absolutely nothing?

Humanity needs to get rid of the conception of 'God' in a biblical sense. That God is a fantasy and manmade God. Humanity is living in the Dark Ages of perception towards what the Divine really is. The only conception I believe what humanity can define the Divine is, Love & Light.

This is why so many are becoming Ex-Christians.

Hard to take someone seriously when they talk about free will without providing any philosophic justification for this dubious claim. Even more shocking to here this claim coming from a neurosurgeon.

This person talks to much