Eben Alexander
American neurosurgeon and authorWikipedia
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Sep 23, 2026
Scotte BurnsGUEST
And this is, you know, one, I've interviewed many different people.
Scotte BurnsGUEST
In fact, the man who wrote the foreword for the book is Dr. Eben Alexander.
Scotte BurnsGUEST
Oh, he's been on the show.
Scotte BurnsGUEST
Neuroscientist and a near-death experiencer.
FrankHOST
And his name is William Pope.
FrankHOST
Now, we had that conversation, like I said, with Eben Alexander about a year or so ago.
FrankHOST
And maybe consciousness is a hell of a lot stranger than the neat little box we have put it in.
FrankHOST
Tonight's guest has a story that takes that question out of the laboratory and right into real life, into probably the most real life.
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FrankHOST
Evan Alexander, MD, was an academic neurosurgeon for over 25 years, including 15 years at the Brigham and Women's Hospital.
FrankHOST
Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston with a passionate interest in physics and cosmology.
FrankHOST
Now, the big thing about Eben Alexander, if you have not been up on his experience, was he contracted meningitis, I believe.
FrankHOST
And so he's had this terrible infection, and a lot of his colleagues, people he knew, were caring for him, and they had to put him into a medically induced coma.
Karen NewellGUEST
And these are some of the trickiest sort of baby wounds, as I call them, to address.
Karen NewellGUEST
And the reason that I came up with that phrase baby wound was directly related to my connection with Eben Alexander.
Karen NewellGUEST
And I know you've interviewed him before.
Karen NewellGUEST
And just to give people the reference, he had been adopted He's a neurosurgeon who had a near-death experience, but his baby wound was when he was adopted.
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Karen NewellGUEST
Yes.
Karen NewellGUEST
Yes, you don't have to be in the physical location.
Karen NewellGUEST
In fact, this is what Eben Alexander is always reminding me of, that we can't measure spirituality and love through an electromagnetic field.
Karen NewellGUEST
But what it gives to me is a correlation.
Alex FerrariHOST
Now let's dive into today's episode.
Alex FerrariHOST
I'd like to welcome back to the show returning champion, Dr. Eben Alexander.
Alex FerrariHOST
How are you doing, Dr. Eben?
Eben AlexanderGUEST
Well, Alex, it's great to be with you again today.
JamieAUDIENCE
And I really appreciate your input.
Hank HanegraaffHOST
You got it, and of course I've written about this in a great deal of detail, particularly with respect to Eben Alexander and also Todd Burpo, so you can see precisely what a near-death experience is and what the problems are in terms of what is being communicated in popular literature today with respect to what heaven is like.
Hank HanegraaffHOST
Simply does not correspond to what we have in heaven.
Hank HanegraaffHOST
And again, books like Eben Alexander's Proof of Heaven are hardly helpful when it comes to mass murders, such as the one created by Adam Lanza.
Hank HanegraaffHOST
Though he claims to have had the quintessential near-death experience, what he ultimately is trumpeting is unconditional love and eternity.
Hank HanegraaffHOST
And that's what religion was really all about, in his view.
Jumi MosesHOST
And Brett's interests in these topics did not only come from philosophy or mysticism, they come from over 30 years of building technology systems, watching what they do to human behavior, and asking whether the materialist worldview underlying all of it was actually true.
Jumi MosesHOST
Brett has engaged with NDE literature, the consciousness first models of reality, and the work of researchers like Mark Gober and Eben Alexander with Genuine Rigor.
Jumi MosesHOST
Brett's ultimate argument is that understanding what consciousness is may be humanity's most urgent preparation for the AI era.
Jumi MosesHOST
Brett, welcome to Shifting Dimensions.
Kris AshleyGUEST
It's really powerful stuff.
Kris AshleyGUEST
Dr. Eben Alexander, who wrote an amazing book about his NDEs and neurosurgeon.
Kris AshleyGUEST
I have Dawson Church, who wrote um genie in your genes he's all about like epigenetics and how we can heal ourselves and emotional freedom technique tapping to heal ourselves um john gray who wrote men are from mars women for me and venus the list goes on and on and on and all of these amazing people whose work i have studied for decades have joined on and it's just kind of been this snowball effect um I've just kind of surrendered to forcing it and just allowed it to happen and allowed divine grace to enter and help me along the way.
Kris AshleyGUEST
And I'm having so much fun every moment of it.
Mel HistonHOST
sometimes I do.
Mel HistonHOST
I did recently, I podcast with Dr. Eben Alexander, who wrote the book Proof of Heaven.
Mel HistonHOST
So he's a neuroscientist, a neurosurgeon over in America.
Mel HistonHOST
Yeah.
Cristina ArocheGUEST
And I think that's what matters most at the end of the day.
Jannecke ØinæsHOST
powerful now I would love for you to share a little bit about where people can reach you and I want to share that we're going to meet each other actually very soon in San Diego I can't believe I'm going all the way to the other side of the earth it's going to be amazing it's going to be a beautiful retreat and you're going to do a talk I'm going to do a talk and I'll put a link below and Daryl Anka is going to be there, Dr. Eben Alexander, Barbara Lamb, who I'm going to interview tonight.
Jannecke ØinæsHOST
So join us if you have the opportunity.
Jannecke ØinæsHOST
Now, where can people reach you or learn more about your work if they want to do so?
Steve FarrellGUEST
Well, I'm part of this, you know.
Steve FarrellGUEST
larger world.
Steve FarrellGUEST
And just like a family, if you're part of a family, you're mature, responsible, take positive action, right? Well, now you live into that instead of the little me with my own preferences and that.
Steve FarrellGUEST
So that's a real quick response to your answer, to your question.
SimbaHOST
And so right now we have this idea of success that is pushed on by society, like financial independence, social status.
Steve FarrellGUEST
Our way of living tends to be very me.
Steve FarrellGUEST
It's just me.
Steve FarrellGUEST
So me, me, me, what are my preferences? What do I want to do? Now that then leads into more of an extraction way of living of, you know, especially if you're an entrepreneur, let me just, well, I'm going to pedal to the metal.
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