Physical life is characterized by defensiveness, whereas spiritual life is just the opposite.

I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as human history.

My journey deep into coma, outside this lowly physical realm and into the loftiest dwelling place of the almighty Creator, revealed the indescribably immense chasm between our human knowledge and the awe-inspiring realm of God.

Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn’t.

As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.

I finally chalked it up to the fact that the brain is truly an extraordinary device: more extraordinary than we can even guess.

Our eternal spiritual self is more real than anything we perceive in this physical realm, and has a divine connection to the infinite love of the Creator.