M.M. You are a famous neurosurgeon that in the past, didn’t believe in
NDEs. You even wrote papers against any remote possibility of life after
death. What was your theory in this period of your past?
E.A.
As a surgeon, I was
used to believing in what
I could see, feel, and
measure. At the time,
NDEs and consciousness independent of the
brain seemed like wishful thinking to me, and
I never really looked for
proof of what happens
after death. But after
my experience, when
I started really looking
for scientific papers—
not necessarily papers
that had made it into the
news, but papers and
research with rigorous
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science behind them—I
found a wealth of information that revealed a
firm grounding in science and belief in NDEs
are not mutually exclusive.