Dr. Eben Alexander I am ready to launch.

Dr. Eben Alexander That is a beautiful gift of the journey and what it showed me very clearly. Especially because of the diagnosis itself is Severe Gram-Negative Bacterial Meningitis. It should have devastated any conscious experience in my mind and yet, precisely the opposite is what happened.

Dr. Eben Alexander During this profound spiritual journey deep in coma when my doctors had full evidence from my neurologic exams, scans, and lab values. They knew that my brain could not have manufactured anything. I experienced this rich extraordinary spiritual journey and higher state of consciousness that I talked about in Proof of Heaven.In fact, that’s why I’m often asked to speak in medical and surgical groups regarding higher state of consciousness. They realized this completely violates our simplistic and false notions of the “brain creates consciousness.” The entire neuroscientific world is headed away from that very erroneous thinking.Consciousness creates the brain, the body and all of the physical reality.That’s the emerging idea that’s coming to the world of consciousness studies now, which is tremendously empowering for individual human beings. It brings us up to a much higher level in terms of our interaction with the universe. And our ability to manifest our free will and determining how the world turns out.

Dr. Eben Alexander I think you hit the nail on the head.One of the most profound gifts of this is an extraordinary sense of gratitude and knowing that all is well. Those were among the first words I spoke when I came out of coma. It’s very crucial for people to remember that when we take that really broad point of view. The much higher view of ourselves and our relationships with others, and our existence here in this world. That all is truly well and that brings tremendous gratitude.Obviously, most people who have near death experiences come back realizing that death is nothing to fear. It is not the end. Many people in our culture think that death of the physical brain and body is the end of their existence. Of course, that is something that brings fear to many people. That is not the way this world works, and it’s because there’s far more to this universe than just the physical.

Dr. Eben Alexander Me before a coma, as a conventional neuroscientist and believing as many scientists do that the physical world is the only thing that exists. I was very confused by all this before I get into higher state of consciousness.My coma journey showed me clearly how I had it completely backward. And what I’ve come to realize is that the entire scientific community is also awakening to this. Mainly because, those who tried to prove that the physical is all that exists, that the brain creates consciousness. And that our existence is birth to death and nothing more are wrong. And the evidence that they are wrong is all around us in these kinds of experiences.It is a very refreshing and beautiful way to look at life. Of course, as I point out in the book Proof of Heaven. One of the deepest scientific fruits of my journey, is that love is fundamental to understanding every bit of this. So many near death experiencers come in touch with that infinite healing power of unconditional love, and it changes their life forever.It is about coming to realize that we’re all connected.We’re all part of one beautiful consciousness that is throughout this universe.

Dr. Eben Alexander That one consciousness is directly connected with what we call God or Allah or Brahma or Vishnu. Whatever your word is for that source deity at the core of all existence.Coming to see all this from my journey was a tremendous gift. The only appropriate response to all of it is gratitude.Our existence is a beautiful gift that includes the hardships, challenges, and difficulties in life.As a doctor, I would include illness and injury. In many ways, they are beautiful gifts that allow us to grow. Because it’s how we face those hardships, how we’re able to recover our sense of love and connectedness with the universe. If we learn that lesson from the challenges we face, and that we are all interconnected.The death of the physical body is not the end of our connection to our loved ones.This much grander view of the nature of reality is one that is very refreshing indeed.

Dr. Eben Alexander Oh, very much.I often tell people in my talks that you don’t have to wait until you die to experience higher state of consciousness. Or wait until you almost die and have an NDE to know all of this.

Dr. Eben Alexander Sentient beings think to come to know it thoroughly by going within. This is why I do a lot of work that I do with my life partner Karen Newell, who is a co-founder of Sacred Acoustics. We try to provide tools that allow others to go into higher state of consciousness and deep transcendental conscious states.One thing that I discovered about two years after my coma. When I was beginning to get into a pattern of meditation and going within to get to some of this deepest answers. I discovered the whole phenomenon of binaural beats and differential frequency brain entrainment and started working with that. It provides a tremendous tool.Any form of going within whether it’s centering prayer. Or other forms of meditation is a real gift to coming in touch with that sense of connectedness, of oneness and shared purpose.

Dr. Eben Alexander We’re all in this together. The most direct pathway towards that transcendence or oneness with the divine is to make choices in our life out of love. Choices out of compassion, forgiveness, acceptance, mercy that transcendence or oneness with the divine. This is something that we can come to see and appreciate in deep meditation. But then, of course it’s up to us to bring that into our lives. Bring that beautiful message of love and connectedness into our daily activities.Meditation helps to strengthen our connection with that oneness. It helps to come to see the much greater power that we have as a conscious sentient being.Then, we might think if we succumb to the falsehoods of the materialist mindset that tries to preach that we’re all separate from each other.I believe that it’s an emerging view of consciousness and scientific circles. It strongly points to the oneness of our consciousness and how we are all interconnected. Thus if I were to harm my neighbor or harm my enemy, I’m hurting myself in a very profound and real sense.This is why this kind of meditation that in deeper understanding of the nature of reality is so helpful. And luckily, the answers lie within us all. Going within is a beautiful way to get there.

Dr. Eben Alexander When I say going within, I’m talking about acknowledging that the little voice in our head is not our consciousness. One does not think their way there through rational and logical thought. That’s the reason why going within is so important, and part of the process of going within is taking that little voice in our head.I love how Michael A. Singer, in his book The Untethered Soul calls that voice in the head the annoying roommate, is exactly the right way to look at it.  That little annoying roommate that might interfere with our meditation is something that we just gently put into timeout.Our consciousness is our awareness. That is the profound mystery of higher state of consciousness from the scientific viewpoint.Either you’re talking about the hard problem of higher state of consciousness, which the impossibility of trying to figure out consciousness just from the physical workings of the brain. Or you’re talking about the measurement paradox in quantum physics, which is another expression of the same mystery.It’s all about realizing that consciousness is the observer within. We can set that observer free to far greater wisdom. Than if it’s just locked into our little day to day thoughts and worries in the voice of our ego.

Dr. Eben Alexander I would say that a real breakthrough for me was about two years after my coma. As I was getting more and more into realizing that consciousness is fundamental and that our current scientific understanding of consciousness. Especially the notions of brain creating consciousness were completely wrong. That’s when I discovered the whole phenomenon of the binaural beats. And what I would say more generically is known as differential sound frequency brain entrainment, but it’s an incredibly powerful tool.A sound can access parts of our lower brain stem that involve circuits. These had been here for 200 million years ever since the vertebrates crawled out. These circuits are very crucial to the initiation of conscious awareness.

Dr. Eben Alexander The scientific view is coming to the fore about all of this higher state of consciousness. Given that the old production model that is the physical brain produces consciousness has never gone anywhere. No one has ever made any sense of that. But the scientific model that is replacing it is that of the filter theory. It is basically that the brain is a reducing valve or filter that limits primordial consciousness down to this tiny little trickle of our normal waking awareness.In fact, we have access to far greater wisdom by going within. I would say that this filtering mechanism is part of what we call the veil. The veil separates us from what we can know in our higher knowing when we reunite with our higher souls at the time of death of the physical body.But we can also get to that knowing and transcend that veil through various techniques of thinning the veil. One of the most powerful tools that I have experienced with is using sacred acoustics type of binaural beats. They have a very profound power to them, and I would encourage any of your listeners to visit sacredacoustics.com.Karen Newell has put up some very informative videos there for meditating. These are all free. Also, a beautiful 20-minute Om meditation that has some very rich binaural power to it that can help people get into deep transcendental states.Just by visiting there and downloading those free sound file and listening through headphones, people can start experimenting right now with going within. And use this incredibly powerful tools to do so.

Dr. Eben Alexander I’m not denying that there are other excellent techniques out there. Like float tanks and other means of getting into deep transcendental states. But my personal experience has been very extensive with the sacred acoustics, and that’s what I would encourage people to do.Going within is where we find the answers.

Dr. Eben Alexander It’s interesting. One thing when I first came out of coma and was trying to explain it to my doctors, of course, they do all the medical details in my case that I did not know at that time.In fact, all of my prior knowledge of brain and mind consciousness had been deleted. Every bit of my personal memory had been erased deep in coma. That’s what gave me such an extraordinary journey, but all my medical knowledge took about eight weeks or so to come back afterward.

Dr. Eben Alexander So initially, trying to explain it to my doctors. They would just tap me on the back and say, “Well, your brain was full of pus. We have no idea how you’re coming back to us, but you can forget about it. Because your neocortex was far too damaged to have harbored any hallucination, dream, drug effect or anything of that ill. You can use false it out the window.”The more I’ve reviewed my medical records and came to realize what all had happened. And how impossible it would have been for me to have any mental experience. That’s when my interest was significantly peak by this.It turns out that very soon afterward, in the next month or two, I was encountering doctors and colleagues who were very interested in this. They knew enough about consciousness to know that I was on the trail of something fascinating and revealing about the nature of reality.It’s now been eight years or so since my coma. I’ve met scientists all around the world, other physicians, neuroscientists, philosophers of mind, chemists, and engineers. I have also met quantum physicists, and etcetera across the board who realized that the materialist paradigm is an absolute dead end.Thinking that the physical is all that exists is a gigantic mistake. The exact opposite is the truth. The thing that exists is consciousness, soul, and spirit.That’s what exists. You have to realize that all this material world is part of what Karen and I, and working on our next book about all this called The Supreme Illusion. That is the illusion that all the out there is out there, and this is not even a debatable point. It’s a simple fact from first principles and observation.

Dr. Eben Alexander We need to realize that our brain and mind are so incredibly powerful of being able to do this. They put together a model within our mind of the external world that we believe is real, and it’s astonishing, but no, it’s not. It’s always been an internal construct within mind. It’s only by starting to realize that the truth of that and how far it goes in discussions of quantum physics in what’s called collapse of the wave function that the observer seems to precipitate out reality.The truth of the matter is that very fundamental principle of quantum physics is at work all the time in all of us about everything. That is everything that we are witnessing is “Collapse of the wave function,” is due to the observer. There’s no place in the physical brain where that observation and collapse of the wave function occurs. It’s all happening in that spiritual or mental realm of what generates brain in the physical body and all this physical reality anyway.It’s addressing that supreme illusion and coming to realize that we need to flip that around to come to a deeper understanding of the nature of reality. All this starts to make much more sense. That is right at the leading edge of where the scientific community is now. It is around brain, mind, consciousness, and the fundamental nature of reality.This is about a revolution that will dwarf the Copernican Revolution. That was when scientist Galileo and others hundreds of years ago determined that the sun might be the center of the universe and not the earth.I would say, that revolution was minuscule compared to what is coming to this world. As we come to realize that consciousness is fundamental and creates all of emerging reality.

Dr. Eben Alexander I would say they can go in fairly quickly. It’s surprising.In fact, when Karen and I do workshops, sometimes we’ll have people who’ve never meditated before who will have a very profound experience right there in the workshop. Something with the radical contact with a departed loved one and things like that.It doesn’t necessarily take a long time to get there, but I will also add that I try to meditate an hour or two a day. I’ve been doing that for the last six years. I find that it has vastly improved my life.

Dr. Eben Alexander The scientific evidence for the benefits of meditation is growing all the time which includes the benefits of strengthening the immune system, for the genius level of insights and creative experiences.Also, the ability to communicate with souls of departed loved ones, to seek guidance from spiritual guides and come to a much greater wisdom of how one’s life is to unfold. That can all originate from an ongoing practice of meditation.I just like to encourage people to give it a serious try. Use meditation. Try it for weeks or months. Not just try it once or twice and say “Well, I don’t see where this is going.” Again, this is why I think you’ll find that the sacred acoustics tones are so powerful because they jumpstart one’s ability to get into this deep transcendental conscious states.

Dr. Eben Alexander The answers do lie within us all, and we can all come too far greater wisdom. You don’t think your way into the mystery of consciousness.You can read all the books about higher state of consciousness. You can watch the DVDs. You can go to the various lectures and presentations. All of that is wonderful.To get to any of these truths, you need to go within and that going within involves your efforts to quiet the little voice and the ego.That is the little voice in the head that is what we’re used to using tools like fear and anxiety to try and guide your behavior.Your ego is not your friend in all this although it serves an important role. So we gently put the ego into timeout, and these tones from sacred acoustics are very helpful at accessing that much grander observer within.The true mystery of consciousness is the awareness. Awareness has access to a tremendous amount of knowledge, understanding, and information that it only comes from going within.