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Audio Clip: [00:00:01] I’m so bored of living. I wake up every morning in the same bed, I get dressed and I eat the same breakfast and then take the same commute to work. I’m 28 years old and I’m terrified, this is all there is.
Alex Tsakiris: [00:00:19] That’s a clip from the Amazon series Undone, about this woman who has this after death experience. I actually like it, I think it’s kind of interesting. Of course, it doesn’t really follow near death experience science. But then why would we expect it to. I mean we have all these really good accounts like the one from Dr. Eben Alexander, the Harvard neurosurgeon but of course, we have to attack those people, take down those people, smear those people, and then substitute and entertaining and well done account of what after life experiences are. Well, no big, the afterlife is a big tent. There’s room for all. But if we want something closer to the truth, listen to people like Dr. Eben Alexander.
Auido Clip: [00:01:08] And getting back to your original question about the attacks on me. I will also say it’s a very good thing that three physicians not involved in my care. And of course, one of them was Dr. Bruce Grayson, who spent more than 45 years studying NDEs, but they wrote up a case report on my medical records and that came out in September of 2018, in the Journal of nervous and mental diseases. And that case report went a very long way towards painting the picture, I tried to paint in proof of heaven, I actually go much further than I did, I had a lot more time to look at my medical records, three of them did it independently, objectively and I think they were even more shocked than I was that when my brain was so demonstrably offline, given my neurologic exams, given the lab values, given the CT and MRI scan showing all eight lobes of my brain affected, that I could have had the most robust, profound experience of my life in that setting. And in fact when the peer reviewers had Journal of neurosis and mental disease, ask them how do you explain this case? They said it’s because he had an NDE. There really shouldn’t have been any controversy because this manufactured controversy, I just wanted to kind of put an exclamation point on that because there are still these lingering doubts which there will be because the effectiveness of smearing somebody of taking somebody down culturally, is very well understood, you will carry that forever, It just never comes clean because they’re really, really good at that. I just pull up short when we start talking about doing and we have to do and we got to reduce that plastic thing in the in the ocean. Of course we do but we just have to be, we have to be with each other. I would say you’re absolutely right on the beam and you know early on in all these discussions after my NDE is always trying to come to a deeper understanding of it all, trying to explain to people trying to come up with a shift and worldview that made sense. I remember, Karen pointed out to me very brilliantly, that really all we are here to do is to be the love that we are.
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