Those implications are tremendous beyond description. My experience showed me that the death of the body and the brain are not the end of consciousness, that human experience continues beyond the grave. More important, it continues under the gaze of a God who loves and cares about each one of us and about where the universe itself and all the beings within it are ultimately going.

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

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.

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.

A story-a true story-can heal as much as medicine can.

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

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