LSP1: Proof of Heaven

Welcome to Lessons from the Spiral Path!

I've started this blog so I can talk specifically about questions raised for readers of Dr. Eben Alexander's bestselling book Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife.*

"Red Warrior" (detail) by J. MacDonald, (C) 2003.

I first read this book in November 2012.  Dr. Alexander's evocative tale of being in a deep coma for seven days and then waking up with intense memories of his time with angelic beings didn't surprise or shock me. I have my own long experience of daily encounters with the Divine, though I've never had a near-death experience; nor do I use any of the consciousness-altering techniques suggested by Dr. Alexander (such as binaural beats, meditation, or traditional forms of prayer). I'm simply a mystic, one who has learned through slow, dogged work what to do and what not to do if you want to feel God's presence in your everyday life.

Some of my thoughts will be in response to the Seven Postulates proposed by a working group of scientists and researchers who call themselves Eternea. Dr. Alexander is one of the founders of this organization. You can read about Eternea's Seven Postulates here.

I welcome comments and questions from anyone, including angry skeptics. Comments will be moderated. I'll delete any comments with links to sites I consider "for-profit." I also welcome e-mails at realspiritik@gmail.com if you have questions about God, the afterlife, or the soul. I'll try to get back to you as quickly as I can.

What makes the information here different from what you've read on other sites?

Good question. Well, (though I don't ask you to take this on faith) . . .

As part of my daily mystical practice, I visit the Core (as Dr. Alexander calls it) every day. I talk to God the Mother and God the Father every day. They totally rock. I love them beyond what any words can describe, and I know in the very depths of my bones how much they love all of us. Feeling their love is a life-changing experience that takes about 5 minutes. But listening to them as they carefully explain why human life is the way it is . . . that takes years. You'll find many sites that talk about the love, but you won't find many sites that tell you how to get closer to God without almost dying. You're going to die some day, of course, but in the meantime, it's possible for you to feel so much more than you realize.

When you've learned how to connect voluntarily with the Core, you discover that God isn't serene and detached and transcendent. They're very chatty and very kind and very humble and also very funny (as in having a terrific sense of humour). They, along with a few particularly canny angels, have taught me what I know about the Spiral Path.

If you'd like to know more about God and God's unconditional love, please join me on the journey! I promise the path will never be straight, but it will always bring you the laughter and tears you need.

Blessings,
Jen     
 
* Eben Alexander.  Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012.  

Addendum November 15, 2020: I first wrote this post almost 7 years ago. Since then, my experiences with God and God's angels have deepened in ways I never thought possible. In particular, my studies have expanded more and more into the science of God's universe. As part of my recent research, I bought and read the 2017 book Proof of God, written by Ptolemy Tompkins and Bernard Haisch. As I read Proof of God, then visited Ptolemy Tompkins's website, I learned that Mr. Tompkins was the ghost-writer -- and therefore the actual author -- of the book Proof of Heaven. This was news to me. I have no objection in principle to ghost-writers, but a ghost-writer makes many decisions about what to include and what not to include in another person's story. Now that I've read Mr. Tompkins's Proof of God, I see that his lenses on the big questions about God and God's Creation are very different from my own. There's no possibility that Mr. Tompkins could have ghost-written Proof of Heaven and not allowed some of his own biases and assumptions about God to shade the depiction of Dr. Eben Alexander's unique journey. So I caution readers of Proof of Heaven and its sequel Map of Heaven (which I have not read) to bear in mind that these books were written in a collaborative way and not primarily by Dr. Alexander himself.