Communicating with God is the most extraordinary experience imaginable, yet at the same time it's the most natural one of all, because God is present in us at all times. Omniscient, omnipotent, personal-and loving us without conditions. We are connected as One through our divine link with God.

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.

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

We can only see what our brain’s filter allows through.

I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon.

I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.

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