Academic neurosurgeon Dr. Eben Alexander III, whose career includes decades as a physician and associate professor at Harvard Medical School and revered teaching hospitals, was once staunchly committed to the materialist world view -- the belief that the physical world is all that exists. His scientific belief system was altered by a 2008 transcendental near-death experience (NDE) in which a bacterial infection severely damaged his brain as he fell into a week-long coma during which he experienced an odyssey into another realm. Despite a bleak medical prognosis, Dr. Alexander awoke to make an inexplicable return to full health. He has since become a pioneering scientist and modern thought leader in the emerging science that acknowledges the primacy of consciousness in the universe, he is the author of the New York Times #1 bestseller Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife, The Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion, and Ordinary People Are Proving the Afterlife, and Living in a Mindful Universe: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Heart of Consciousness.

Website: ebenalexander.com

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Karen Newell is an author and specialist in personal development with a diverse body of work that rests upon the foundation of heart-centered consciousness. As an innovator in the emerging field of brainwave entrainment audio meditation, Karen empowers others in their journeys of self-discovery by demonstrating how to connect to inner guidance, achieve inspiration, improve wellness and develop intuition. She is co-founder of Sacred Acoustics, and co-author with Eben Alexander III, M.D. of Living in a Mindful Universe.

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Website shared by Eben and Karen: innersanctumcenter.com

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Interview recorded April 17, 2021.

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00:04:17 Ebens NDE

00:14:57 Cycling through layers of frequencies/

00:16:00 Mantras/sounds/binaural beats

00:18:03 Life reviews

00:23:57 We’re more than physical body

00:26:48 Reincarnation

00:30:53 Death bed visions

00:34:43 Exploration of strata or realms

00:36:32 Paradigm shift and the world

00:45:54 Science

00:53:39 Sam Harris and free will

00:56:03 Dreams

00:56:37 Assumptions

01:00:58 Materialists

01:00:58 Scientist mind change when they are dying

01:05:56 Memory

01:12:23 Akashic record field

01:16:27 Evolution of consciousness

01:18:45 Cyclical nature

01:26:21 Eben and a golden age of transformation

01:29:27 Karen brings up healing crisis

01:30:39 Eben- on oneness

01:35:13 Discernment

01:44:31 Questions from viewers