Eben Alexander Quotes

When I experience something, I believe it. I almost choked to death when I was a four year old and had a near death experience. I was very upset that I didn't die because it was a lot more interesting out of your body than in it.

The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.

Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness.

When I die, I'd like to come back as a cello.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.

I believe in the unconscious state of the mind in death.

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.

Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its outer casings, and - as the snake from its skin, the butterfly from its chrysalis - emerges from one after another, passing into a higher state of consciousness.

I've always been slightly preoccupied with death or whatever those kind of silly big questions people will tell you to not spend your time worrying about.

Because there is a larger awareness that transcends time and space, an awareness is available after death.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Thirdly, Death is nothing else but a change of a short and temporary for an unalterable and eternal condition.

Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Death is either an incredible ending to a story or, more often than not if you ask the right questions, it's the beginning of a story.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.

Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

Everyone focuses on the earthly state, but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth, and I can't wait to experience that.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.

There is no death, only a change of worlds.

A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.