Eben Alexander Quotes

I'm always curious about what happens when we die. And I'd like to think that somehow the spirit goes on. I'd rather not think that it's just about this.

I don't believe there's an afterlife - but I don't believe there's an end to life. Consciousness goes beyond the bounds of your body.

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.

We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth.

I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no death the way we understood it. The body dies, but not the soul.

I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.

As far as where I go when I die, the concept that I am simple going to flick out, like a light bulb, to me is not only spiritually impossible to believe, but logically it is laughable - the idea that we simply die and nothing happens.

I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.

I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?

The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.

We fear death because of pain, and because of the thought that we may become obliterated. This idea is erroneous. Jesus showed himself in a physical form to his disciples after his death. Lahiri Mahasaya returned in the flesh the next day after he had entered mahasamadhi. They proved that they were not destroyed.

Tis true, 'tis certain; man, though dead, retains Part of himself; the immortal mind remains.

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

We are eternal beings. We lived as intelligent spirits before this mortal life. We are now living part of eternity. Our mortal birth was not the beginning; death, which faces all of us, is not the end.

I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.

I'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind.

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

Death does not exist.

I don't believe in an afterlife.

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

The doctrine of immortality rests upon human affection. We love; therefore, we wish to live.

To me, the soul is a part of us that never dies. It's what we come in with.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.

I think it is impossible for human minds to think of Death as a final, irrevocable end to life.