heaven is true

Heaven is a place or state of being that is often described as

the abode of God or the gods, angels, and the souls of people

who have been saved or who have lived virtuous lives. It is

often depicted as a place of great joy, peace, and

contentment, and is typically believed to be beyond the

physical world.

Different religious and spiritual traditions have different

ideas about what heaven is like and how one can gain entry

into it. Some believe that heaven is a physical place that one

goes to after death, while others believe it is a spiritual realm

that exists beyond the physical world.

There is no scientific evidence to support the existence of

heaven, and different people may have different beliefs about

what, if anything, lies beyond this life. The concept of

heaven is often based on faith and personal beliefs, and may

provide comfort and hope to those who believe in it

Here's a question do you believe in heaven ?

Various polls find that somewhere around 80 percent of

Americans do but as Harvard trained brain surgeon wasn't

so sure until he spent a week in a coma and came out with

an incredible description of the afterlife.

A mild afternoon in lynchburg Virginia and evan and holly

alexandar are at a high school soccer game cheering on

their 14 year son bond they are a perfectly ordinary family

with an extraordinary story they have been touched by a

medical miracle and may be more.

Evan - I mean it was impossible after impossible after impossible

[ Evan Alexander a Harvard trained neurosurgeon who was a

skeptic came to religion survived a near death experience and he

now carries the memory of what he says was a journey to heaven

a journey that all his scientific training cannot explain

On November 10, 2008 evan awoke with a searing headache

when his wife holly checked in on him he was having a

tremendous seizure ]

Eben - And I said say something and he didn't say anything so I

called 911

[ Eben was rushed to the hospital where he worked as a

neurosurgeon

The only word we could truly make out was help and the rest his

verbalization purely screaming even Alexander had been stricken

with an extremely rare and virulent e coil meningitis infection that

was ravaging his brain plunging him into a coma

I mean I was trying to die in fact doctors gave him almost no

chance to live and told his family if he did survive he'd be brain

damaged for the rest of his life ]

Eben - his eyes were just off and cocked its just like no one was

there

Evan believes holly is right he wasn't there

we - did you go to heaven

Evan - yes

Evan - I mean in every sense of the word that's what my

experience showed me

[ His first recollection he says was being a speck of pure

awareness in a dark and murky underworld and then I was

rescued by this beautiful spinning white light that had a melody

indescribably beautiful melody with it that opened up into a bright

valley just an incredible rich ultra real world of indescribable

complexity God was there he says and he encountered him

through an orb of brilliant light he soared on the wing of a butterfly

with a beautiful young women is his companion and the young

gave him a message to take back from heaven ]

That women said

you are loved you are cherished there 's nothing you have to

fear there is nothing you can do wrong.

we - It's a beautiful vision but heaven ? a lot of people are going

to say doctor it was a hallucination your brain got zapped by this

disease all the wires got crossed and you saw a girl on a butterfly

wing and you were spinning up in a melody

Evan - I know this this was not a hallucination not a dream not

what we call a confabulation I know that it really occurred and I

know it occurred outside of my brain

[ But how can even suggest that less claim that his experience is

proof of heaven as he's called his new book? He showed us his

brain scan ]

Evan - it wasn't leaving any part of my cortex unaffected

We - so your conclusion is because of this outter area which is

the higher functioning was covered with the infection what you

experienced in the coma wasn't part of the brain.

Evan - right

[ Many neuroscientists are deeply skeptical of evans claims

arguing his brain must have produced his vision somehow most

likely as he out of coma but something else happened after he

recovered evan who was adopted saw a picture of a sister from

his biological family who died years ago he never knew ]

Evan - And I knew who my guardian angel was on the butterfly

wing...it was the most profound experience I've ever had in this

life.

We - your sister and from a family that you didn't know because

you were adopted who died several years ago who had you never

met you saw while you were in coma

Evan - yes that was the key that explained everything

[ One fine evening dinner time at the alexander home come lord

they were not a particularly religious family before evans coma he

was skeptic not anymore ]

Evan - this proves that our soul our consciousness our

spirit...doesn't depend on the existence of the brain and body at

all and easily is actually freed up to much higher state of knowing

when it's freed from this body. so that heaven is true .