Eben Alexander, MD, was an academic neurosurgeon for over 25
years, including 15 years at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital,
Children’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School in Boston, with a
passionate interest in physics and cosmology. He is the author of
the #1 New York Times bestseller Proof of Heaven and The Map of
Heaven.
Karen Newell is a life-long seeker of esoteric wisdom and
has amassed a wealth of firsthand experience exploring realms of
consciousness. She is the cofounder of Sacred Acoustics, an
innovator in the emerging field of brainwave entrainment audio
recordings used to help listeners reach transcendental states of
awareness.
While eloquently telling us about the Mindful Universe, Eben
Alexander and Karen Newall skillfully and beautifully drive home a
timely and important message: You are not just part of a self-aware
and ever evolving universe, you are the one that gives it awareness
and is evolving it! You are your universe. The authors make the
compelling case that the future of our world and the future vision
for our universe lies directly in our hands and in the choices we
make.
-Dr. Rudolph E. Tanzi, Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of
Neurology, Harvard Medical School and New York Times bestselling
author of Super Brain and Super Genes
Eben Alexander and Karen Newell, two of the brightest and most
sensitive people I know, have written a truly wonderful new book.
Their book is both a personal journal of their spiritual quest and
a practical manual for the care, education and nourishment of the
soul. I love their brilliant, in-depth thinking and analysis, which
sheds exciting new light on near-death experiences and other
phenomena of the spiritual life.
-Raymond Moody, author of Life After Life and Glimpses of
Eternity
In this important book, Eben Alexander and Karen Newell lead us on
an unforgettable journey that opens our hearts to a deeper
understanding of consciousness. As a neurosurgeon previously
steeped in materialism until his beliefs were shattered by a near
death experience, Alexander is in a unique position of being able
to provide a more comprehensive description of the true nature of
reality than conventional science or spirituality can offer, which
he delivers with great elegance within the pages of this book. I
highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in gaining a
deeper understanding of our true nature; especially those who are
not afraid of breaking down the boundaries between our scientific
and spiritual beliefs.
-Anita Moorjani, New York Times bestselling author of Dying To Be
Me
Having previously accepted the philosophy of 'scientific
materialism' as the ultimate truth, Dr. Alexander found that his
life-transforming near-death experience during coma had shattered
all of his former beliefs about the nature of consciousness, the
roles of the mind and brain, and the meaning of life and death. His
emergent understanding is presented in Living in a Mindful
Universe, which illuminates the many steps he took to expand his
understanding of a much larger, richer, and deeper cosmos.
-Bill Guggenheim, co-author of Hello from Heaven
Similar to Einstein, Eben, a man of science, delves into the
Spiritual Oneness. He realizes that there are many paths up the
mountain and they end up in the same place. As a result of
understandings that Eben encountered during his coma, he succinctly
conveys familiarity with many planes of consciousness, and the way
he demonstrates this awareness is fascinating.
-Ram Dass, author of Be Here Now
Numerous books have been written about consciousness, mind, soul,
and love, but nobody has put them together in such an ingenious way
as Dr. Eben Alexander. His book Living in a Mindful Universe will
bring its readers a road map for life that is desperately needed in
these times of stress, conflict, and confusion. It not only deals
with life after death but how to live a more meaningful existence
right here and right now.
-Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Saybrook
University, and co-author of Personal Mythology
Dr. Eben Alexander’s case history is one of the most important in
the history of medicine. The fact that he physically survives his
illness is astonishing, but his account of a journey during his
coma to a resplendent domain that operates according to the
principle of boundless love is even more surprising. Alexander’s
experience shows that the dismal, vacuous view of materialism,
which guarantees total annihilation of consciousness with physical
death, is almost certainly wrong. Newell’s contributions are a
valuable addition, making possible a practical blueprint by which
one can realize transcendent insights and spiritual growth without
experiencing the dangerous trauma of Alexander’s journey. Their
collaboration makes Living in a Mindful Universe vital reading as
we struggle to recover direction, purpose, and meaning in modern
life.
-Larry Dossey, MD, author of ONE MIND: How Our Individual Mind Is
Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters and Executive
Editor, Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing
A very important book, with rich stories illustrating a world
beyond the limits of materialistic science and one Neurosurgeon’s
quest to rethink everything he has learned. Dr. Alexander’s
humbleness, along with the wise council of Karen Newell, is a
roadmap for those wishing to bridge science and spirit and enter
into a life of wonder and magic. And, it’s great read!
-William Arntz, creator of What the BLEEP Do We Know!?
Living in a Mindful Universe is a compelling introduction to a
vitally important and rapidly unfolding paradigm shift in science.
It highlights the decline of a nihilistic worldview held by
scientists for centuries, where consciousness was a meaningless
side effect of brain activity, to the rise of a far more
comprehensive worldview where consciousness is the fundamental
"glue" that defines reality itself.
-Dean Radin, PhD, Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic
Sciences, Distinguished Professor at the California Institute of
Integral Studies, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Explore
Living in a Mindful Universe goes beyond Dr. Alexander’s previous
books in showing how science and spirituality are coming together
to give us a more complete understanding of consciousness,
meaning,and purpose in the universe -- and in describing how we can
realize our role in it.
-Bruce Greyson, M.D., Carlson Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry &
Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia Health
System
In this third book based upon his extraordinary experiences during
a coma induced by bacterial meningitis, Eben Alexander provides new
information about the coma and its aftermath, connects his
experiences with world-wide and world-old mystical traditions, and
links experiences of this sort with modern developments in physics.
He then goes on with his partnerKaren Newell to survey a variety of
practices and technologies that may enable others to access these
expanded states of consciousness and the normally latent human
potentials associated with them. Many other such possibilities
undoubtedly remain to be discovered, and time will tell which of
the lot work best, and for whom. An exciting new journey of
scientific self-discovery is certainly underway.
-Edward F. Kelly, PhD, Professor in the Division of Perceptual
Studies, Department of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences at the
University of Virginia, and lead author of Irreducible Mind and
Beyond Physicalism
In Living in a Mindful Universe, Eben Alexander and Karen Newell
explore the worlds of both science and spirit. They offer clear
explanations of findings that challenge the Supreme Illusion of
everyday physical reality, along with frank accounts of their own
efforts to connect more with the Collective Mind. The result is a
work filled with wisdom and compassion.
-Jim B. Tucker, MD, New York Times bestselling author of the Return
to Life: Extraordinary Cases of Children Who Remember Past
Lives
I have great admiration for Dr. Eben Alexander, because he didn't
ignore something that science cannot (currently) explain—namely, a
detailed near-death experience when his brain was clinically dead.
In his latest book, Living In A Mindful Universe ,he shares with us
what he has discovered about the nature of human consciousness
since awakening from his coma, and also gives readers tools they
can use to deepen their own consciousness. Highly recommended for
anyone looking to harness the power of the human mind!"
-Kelly Turner, PhD, New York Times bestselling author of Radical
Remission: Surviving Cancer Against All Odds
With a background in neurosurgery and having had direct experience
of non-ordinary aspects of reality, Eben Alexander is a unique and
valuable cultural asset in our efforts to develop a more mature
understanding of the nature of self and world. In this delightful
and mind-opening book, Eben and Karen take us with them on their
journey of exploration subsequent to Eben's NDE. They show that the
insights they have had are accessible to any one of us, and that
sane, coherent, non-materialist views of reality not only exist,
but are no longer fringe.
-Bernardo Kastrup, PhD, author of More Than Allegory and Brief
Peeks Beyond
In this impressive book, Eben Alexander gives us a frank and very
personal account of the life-changing transformation following his
deep-coma experience. He shares with us his complete flip away from
scientific materialism, and his newly obtained insight in the
mystery of the Collective Mind. He explains the importance to make
contact with this high-ordered consciousness by practicing
conscious awareness on a more daily basis. Our picture of the world
will change fundamentally by the insight that it is all about
consciousness. This perspicuously written book will bring deeper
understanding of the nature of the human spirit, and gives us all a
greater knowledge about the nature of reality. Highly
recommended.
-Pimvan Lommel, cardiologist and author of Consciousness Beyond
Life
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