A story-a true story-can heal as much as medicine can.
Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it.
We can only see what our brain’s filter allows through.
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.
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.