#141 Dr. Eben Alexander- Death is an illusion A Neurosurgeon’s Near Death Experience.

#141 Dr. Eben Alexander- Death is an illusion A Neurosurgeon’s Near Death Experience.

From AWONDERJUNKIE by Ryan Anderson

June 12, 2026 · 1h 0m · Episode 141

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Dr. Eben Alexander shares his near-death experience and insights on consciousness after being in a coma.

Dr. Eben Alexander spent over 25 years as an academic neurosurgeon, including 15 years at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital, the Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. Over those years he personally dealt with hundreds of patients suffering from severe alterations in their level of consciousness. Many of those patients were rendered comatose by trauma, brain tumors, ruptured aneurysms, infections, or stroke. He thought he had a very good idea of how the brain generates consciousness, mind and spirit. In the predawn hours of November 10, 2008, he was driven into coma by a rare and mysterious bacterial meningo-encephalitis of unknown cause. He spent a week in coma on a ventilator, his prospects for survival diminishing rapidly. On the seventh day, to the surprise of everyone, he started to awaken. Memories of his life had been completely deleted inside of the coma, yet he awoke with memories of a fantastic odyssey deep into another realm – more real than this earthly one! His older son advised him to write down everything he could remember about his journey, before he read anything about near-death experiences, physics or cosmology. Six weeks later, he completed his…

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Host: Ryan Anderson

Guest: Dr. Eben Alexander

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Organizations: Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

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