Eben Alexander: Expanding Heart Consciousness Part 1

it's a real honor and a privilege to be here with you tonight I apologize for last night and very grateful to my very good friend Raymond moody for filling in so rapidly on short notice so tonight I'd like to take you on a little journey something that happened to me eight years ago and I think to really get into this I probably should see a show of hands like to just see raise your hand if you've read the book proof of heaven or heard me present before okay so good so there's a quite an audience out there we're not familiar with the story well I want to take you through the kind of personal journey that I've been through of discovery around this and as you were told in the introduction I'm a neurosurgeon I'd spent more than 20 years of my life in neurosurgery I spent 15 years at Harvard Medical School and I thought I had a pretty good idea how the brain mind and consciousness work and turns out I was wrong I was very wrong about it I was very much fit into the model of modern scientific materialism and that reductive materialist model which is the dominant worldview of a lot of our conventional science basically says that nothing exists but the physical world and I'm sure there are a lot of people in this audience who have probably known their whole life that that is false but it is kind of a dominant world paradigm and certainly a dominant paradigm in our scientific circles now I was very fortunate in my life I grew up in a home my father was very influential in my life he had been a combat surgeon in the Second World War and he his own father had been a general surgeon he grew up in eastern Tennessee my father was very religious his father had taken him to Baptist church every Sunday of his life my father was also very scientific he actually after all two came back and was a chairman of a neurosurgical training program and so I grew up with science and a very deep spiritual version of religion in my main mentor and my father now like many of us who grew up in the 60s and 70s though I was a bit challenged and that is the successes of Science and Technology in the mid 20th century we're very impressive as a dominant worldview and so that kind of scientific materialism was something that I assumed to be true and especially I thought that science the methodology of science and the scientific approach is the pathway to all truth now it turns out that I still believe that that is very much the case but I'm more of a scientist now than I've ever been and what I also came to realize is that scientific materialism is absolutely wrong it's it's a dead end it's basically strangling itself to death because there is much more of this world in the physical in fact I would say the physical is completely subservient to the spiritual we live in a spiritual universe we are all eternal spiritual beings that completely violates everything that I had learned for those many years of my life now my father had taken me to that Methodist Church when I was growing up and I wanted to believe all that I wanted to believe what I heard in church that God is very real that there's power to prayer that were spiritual beings and that when our physical body dies in this world that potentially we go to heaven or go to hell that was kind of the dominant paradigm in the very conventional kind of Christian upbringing that I faced now in my many years spent in neurosurgery though I had more and more difficulty understanding how the soul could survive any kind of awareness could survive the death of the brain and body now of course in the background there is that cornerstone of scientific materialism which is basically that the brain creates consciousness out of physical matter and I thought that that was true and that's basically the underlying supposition of so much of conventional scientific thinking of that materialist mindset and therefore of course our existence as a being is birth to death and nothing more and as much as I had wanted to believe those religious teachings they just did not fit into my worldview and what I saw day in and day out working in neurosurgery now it turns out there were plenty of examples staring me in the face of things that I saw around the time of death because my focus as a neurosurgeon was in malignant brain tumors those are extremely challenging and difficult and very rapidly you find that you might improve a patient's life and their survival but sooner or later that disease always seemed to win out so you become very familiar with death but doctors and in kind of the Western mindset many of them I can certainly claim that this is one of my faults when it comes to a patient who is facing the end of their illness in some sense we feel that we failed as a physician and so we're often not around right when the patient passes over now the nurses are so the nurses get this and they've gotten it for a long time I can speak for myself as a doctor some of us are a little slow on the uptake I needed a big thumping and I got that back in November of 2008 and I'll be describing that in just a minute but that's basically who I was before all this happened and then my life shifted dramatically it shifted at about 4:30 in the morning on November 10th 2008 when I woke up with severe back pain thought maybe if I could make my way down to a hot bathtub down the hall that the bath would relieve the pain but no in fact it only got worse I had to use a towel to kind of pull myself up out of the tub struggle back to bed on tiptoes collapsing and writhing agony and a cold sweat just in severe pain soon thereafter my youngest son um his name is bond those who read proof of heaven will realize that that name is far more appropriate than I knew at the time but bond came into the room saw that dad wasn't off at work yet and worse yet seemed to be in extreme agony so bond aged 10 came over and started rubbing my temples to make me feel better as soon as he touched my head I felt like he'd driven a white-hot spike right through my head terrific pain searing pain of course anyone out there in medicine if you hear about sudden onset of severe back pain severe headache you might think meningitis well the doctor was already out I was going down fast my brain was being overrun with an extremely primitive aggressive and absolutely should have killed me bacterial meningitis now it turns out that that's just about the last memory that I have from this world and my family thought I was resting so they just shut the door and let me you know take a nap to kind of get better when they checked on me about two hours later they found I was having a grand mal epileptic seizure and that's when they called 9-1-1 and the EMTs came to the house put into my v's gave me some drugs to try and stop the seizures they couldn't do it they hauled me off to the Lynchburg General Hospital emergency room now I remember none of this at all my memories of anything on this world in this universe for the next seven days do not exist I was long gone from this world now in the book proof of heaven of course a lot of the story there is what happened on earth while I was gone now all of that I had to ask family members friends doctors and nurses who took care of me to get that whole story together of all that kind of backstory and what I later found out is that when they took me to the emergency room that I encountered dr. Laura Potter ER physician and she and I were very good friends I had worked in that emergency room for more than two years and but she didn't even recognize me all she saw was 54 year old white male status epilepticus unbreakable seizures in extremists trying to die right there on her watch she told me much later that she knew once she did a lumbar puncture put the needle in my back and out came the fluid of surrounding the brain and spinal cord and that fluid was thick white pus under pressure and much later she told me when she saw that given the fact that I had gone from symptom onset in the coma within three and a half hours those two facts alone given that she now knew that I had a bacterial meningitis gave me about a ten percent chance of survival that was the Rosi prognosis on Monday morning when I first got to the hospital got a lot worse in the next seven days on the second day they got quite a surprise when microbiology reported back that it was ecoli now spontaneous ecoli meningitis in adults some are less than one in ten million per year it's extremely rare in fact e coli meningitis almost always occurs in newborns it's very rare beyond the age of three months so yes I do have to defend my level of maturity but that's my problem and it turns out I've been put on a ventilator put on the ICU from from day one put on three very powerful intravenous antibiotics and they basically watch me dwindle any anyone in medicine knows that a patient who is that sick with bacterial meningitis especially gram-negative bacteria meningitis by day two or three they're either starting to come around and wake up or dead and of course I was in that mysterious in-between state where I wasn't quite dead but my doctors knew for my neurologic exams even when I gone into the hospital that my neocortex the human part of the brain the outer surface of the brain had been wiped out that there was nothing left functional in my neocortex and that's the way the week went and by the end of the week day seven the my physicians called a family meeting so Sunday morning and that's when they said well basically he's gone from a 10% chance of survival down to a 2% chance and best case scenario if he's in that 2% survivor category he'll spend a month or two in the hospital and be transferred to a nursing home in a persistent vegetative state and he'll die there a few months later he'll never wake up so that's what my family was facing so their decision was to stop the antibiotics now it turns out that it was a few hours after that that I did start coming back to this world but my doctors were no fools when I first started to wake up in the ICU I had absolutely no words language no memories of the life of a banal examiner before coma in fact my mother my sisters my son's standing at the bedside I had no idea who these beings were the only thing I knew was where I had been and that was on an extraordinary journey that I'm going to describe to you in a few minutes and it turns out that words and language came back very rapidly over hours and days childhood memories over a week or two a lot of that was thanks to two of my sisters who camped out in little cots at the bedside after I got of ICU and I couldn't sleep night or day I was very kind of in and out of a psychotic delirium after I came out of coma and that was a very beautiful gift that psychotic paranoid nightmare that I went through because it was very different from what I'd witnessed Bencomo and then over a few days I started coming back to a semblance of reality in this world and by eight weeks or so everything I had known about science physics cosmology everything about neurosurgery brain mind and consciousness every bit of it was back packed in fact people would ask me are you back at 90 percent 95 percent interesting enough I was back about a hundred and ten percent that's a very difficult thing to understand when you realize how badly my neocortex the human part of the brain had been devastated in the midst of this illness now the memories that I had when I came back are the real treasure of this now initially when I tried to explain some of this to my physicians they would Pat me on the back and say well you were way too sick to have experienced anything your brain was soaking in pus the human part of your brain your neocortex was destroyed from day one we knew that from the exams from the scans we could tell you can't have had any experience so you can just forget about it and I believed him we believed our doctors and early on before any of my knowledge of brain mind consciousness had returned I thought okay well that was one incredibly ultra real bizarre journey but it was only over those weeks and months as I learned more and more about my illness went back and licked through all my medical records talked it over with my physicians went through all the neurologic exams and scans that I started to realize there was something very wrong with our model of how the brain is related to consciousness and in fact my journey was very clearly one that shows us the brain does not create consciousness at all which is exactly where the scientific world is headed on this very issue so what is it that I remembered when I first came back to this world well it all started in what I call the earthworm's I view a very primitive course unresponsive realm dark and murky was like being in dirty jello and a strong sense of roots or blood vessels all around me I can still kind of feel what they felt like even though I had no body image at any point at all during this journey I was just a point of awareness now in this earth worm's-eye view I'm sure I had no kind of memory moment-to-moment memory is generally thought of as a function that's very demanding and if you've got a really sick brain your memory is not going to be working but the interesting thing about my experience and one of the kind of hallmarks of my NDE that makes it different from others because many of the features of my NDE were very clear-cut examples that coincided with other NDEs reported by the tens of thousands out there in this world but there was one very atypical feature and that is the amnesia the fact that I started with an empty slate I had no words I had no human concepts I had no memories whatsoever of ever having existed in this universe none of my religious beliefs none of that scientific knowledge every bit of it was gone now in the weeks and months after coming back to this world as a neurosurg and I thought well I guess that makes sense that I would be amnesic because in fact my neocortex had been so ravaged by this illness and our conventional science very vaguely believes that memories are stored in the neocortex even though they are not as will point out during some of the talks this week and so in that earth where my view it sounds very foreboding and people would often ask me early on when I talked about my experiences they would tell was that hell or purgatory what was that earth were my view well I think if I had just gone there and come back to this world I would have had a hellish NDE but in fact um it was suffocating and kind of confining but given that I didn't remember anything else was possible I simply accepted it as existence and so that was something that I could I could live with now the good news is I was not stuck there forever there came to my rescue a clear white light with fine gold and silver tendrils off of it and was spinning very slowly and it came towards me in that murky earth where my view that subterranean dirty jello realm but this clarity of this light was just perfect and beautiful and the best thing about it was there had been a sound in that earth where my view was a smashing pounding monotonous like someone smashing on an anvil but when this pure white light came towards me it came with a perfect musical melody and the notes of that melody proved very crucial to me as this journey went on because what would happen is I as I ascended to higher and higher levels and I'll describe them in a minute even all the way to the core to the pure oneness I would then tumble back down to that earth where my view that very simplistic course unresponsive realm but by remembering the musical notes that's how I could work my way back up because the musical notes would conjure up that pure white light it would come back to me and open up yet again like a portal up into these higher realms now this is a lot of the work that I do now and what Karen Newell and I are here this week to discuss is sound in meditation and the use of differential frequency sounds and I'll be talking a lot more about that tomorrow we don't have time to go into it tonight but the important point is that sound is the vehicle that our soul uses to traverse to higher in higher realms of course humans have used sound whether it be in the form of conch shells or Tibetan singing bowls or musical instruments or they are the acoustics of ancient sacred caves or caverns or cathedrals what-have-you hymns chants anthems that's what we've used to help us to get to those higher levels to help us leave behind the little measly trickle of consciousness that is the illusion of this four dimensional space-time that we live in down here but there is a far grand or consciousness that we all witness when we leave these physical bodies when we die when we leave that body behind the body is like a costume in this act to the play so when this act of the play is over I discard the costume reunite with my higher soul go through that life review in the presence of those beautiful soul mates in the soul group and then we plan our next incarnation and come back and so that kind of higher consciousness is something that we can see when we're broken free from the shackles of the physical brain we are conscious in spite of our brain and that is the emerging paradigm that's coming to the scientific world as we get deeper and deeper into understanding these kind of journeys now in that first passage up through that clear light I entered what I call the Gateway Valley and it's a gateway because it was only a passageway to higher and higher levels and yet it was very much a realm that was fitting to reunite with higher souls and soulmate soul groups to go through life reviews all of the stage work the things that are comfortable to us the reason near-death experiences often reflect one's personal beliefs and and maybe their religious views but believe me that near-death experiences by and large will reshape your views on this we use our words in our language to express things but remember that our earthly language was developed more or less to describe trips to Disneyworld not to describe trips to realms where you are face-to-face and fully absorbing full-blown infinite universal consciousness that's why they're so difficult to put into words now in this beautiful gateway Valley it had many earth-like features and I remember it being very ultra real everything about it and part of that ultra reality is the fact that you're not seeing with the eyes you're not hearing with the ears and you don't have the normal fill turning mechanisms of the neocortex that are there to dumb everything down and reduce it down to this tiny little trickle that we're used to in these lives in that realm you get full-blown exposure to every bit of it there are times when you become the boundaries of self completely dissolve you become other beings entire groups of beings in fact at times I became the whole higher dimensional multiverse throughout all of infinity and eternity that's a very very difficult thing to put into any kind of words for any human to understand but I hope you get it that by that point one has left anything resembling ego and that false boundaries of self far far behind now in this beautiful Valley it was lush fertile beyond description blossoms buds flowers all opening up very richly everything dynamic creative fertile beyond description and just this absolutely amazing sense as you become all of that colors beyond the rainbow now I was moving up through this because I was a speck of awareness on a butterfly wing a beautiful butterfly and it was one of millions of butterflies that were looping and swirling in these vast spiraling formations of light in color and life and just bliss and going down into that lush greenery with all of the the I I'm sorry for using the word beautiful again but just absolutely indescribable of bliss of that realm and all of the below me were all of these beings thousands and they were dressed in kind of peasant garb and when I wrote all that up weeks later and trying to make sense of this trying to record my journey I said that these were souls between lives they were like villagers in fact at one point I said they were dressing in simple peasant garb but it was very simple clothing and yet bright colorful lots of joy and merriment everyone was dancing incredible music dancing children playing in dogs jumping just an incredible world festivities all this excitement and bliss and sharing of joy going on below me was being fueled because up above golden orbs swooping against a blue black velvety sky with these towering billowing clouds of pure color lighting the entire scene and on this butterfly wing the best part about it I wasn't alone it was a beautiful girl doesn't get any better than that and I'll never forget how she looked at me sparkling blue eyes wide smile high forehead high cheekbones dressed in that simple kind of peasant garb she never said a word but she looked at me with a smile of love pure unconditional love that just blew right through me and I remember the message it came to me from her telepathically because obviously no words and and when when these thoughts come through it's it's complete and absolute it's not the linear kind of limitations of linguistics that were normally normally find here on earth and our communications but her thoughts came straight into my awareness and they're a fundamental part of the message in the book proof of heaven because they're really messages for all souls and it went something like this when I wrote it all up a few weeks later her thoughts came in to me you are deeply loved and cherished forever you will be taken care of you have nothing to fear and I came to realize through this entire journey of course that that old saying from Winston Churchill there's nothing to fear but fear itself rings very very deeply true at all levels in this kind of spiritual journey and there is nothing to fear especially as we come to know our divine connection with each other through consciousness and the connection with the divine and that this is all a spiritual a spiritual universe and we will be taken care of now there was another part of that message that I wish I had expanded a little more where it appears in the book proof of heaven because bundled with that bit that you will be taking care of you have nothing to fear was you can do no wrong now it turns out that I already knew I was beginning to glimpse at this point the journey where that was going and it has to do with the fact that this is soul school we're here in this realm to learn and teach those lessons of ascendance all of sentient beings throughout the universe are participating in this ascendance of consciousness and the lesson that is foremost for Humanity to learn at this point is that lesson of love it's not as if we've really gotten it even though the message was very plainly pointed out to us thousands of years ago by the beautiful prophets who brought us our kind of religious views all the modern religions everything about that love and compassion and forgiveness that we are here to learn today now I do know wrong what what she was really telling me is that we have a gift of free will now that conventional science that I mentioned to you at the beginning of this talk very proudly will tell you our conventional neuroscience says no human being has free will in fact they would try and convince you that consciousness is an illusion an epiphenomenon of the workings of the subatomic particles atoms molecules and cells of the brain but they've got it completely backwards and so in fact realizing that this is soul school that we're here to learn those lessons that God gives us that gift of free will to make these choices and it's how we face the hardships and difficulties in life they are gifts but if we can face them and make choices out of love compassion forgiveness acceptance and mercy that's what we are here to learn now that's the path of a sentence but we can choose to do otherwise gift of free will allows us to be selfish to be greedy to be egocentric to harm others other beings this is not just about humans at all animals have very very rich souls it's that consciousness is something we all share but we can choose to do wrong but when we do that hand out that evil and suffering to others it simply means that our life review and we leave this world is going to be more challenging because in the life review we become those other beings in the life review which is not some new-age concept the life review goes back at least as far back as Plato when he recounted the the story of earth the Armenian soldier killed in battle 2400 years ago laid on a funeral pyre who then came back to earth but came back to life and had a story to tell and two of the most prominent features is that you go through a life of you you know that saying your life flashes before your eyes well yes and not just that but or the armenian soldier realized that the only thing that matters is the love that we've managed to serve as a conduit for for our for ourselves and for our fellow beings all we live in these earthly incarnations so do nothing wrong really means you know prepare for that life review karin often reminds me to do a daily review so my life review will be a lot easier because in that life review you do become the souls that you afflicted not only with your actions but with your thoughts and so it really is about a purification that we're going through here and learning these lessons now on that butterfly wing with this beautiful girl there came a perfect summer breeze a warm and balmy breeze that blew through and everything shifted and when i look back on it in my early writings i called that breeze the breath of god divine wind it was my first awareness if you recall that i was a music for everything I had an empty slate that was my first awareness of the divine in this realm of the infinite power of that loving source and the power of that unconditional love and after that breeze went through what I was then aware of the angelic choirs above those whooping orbs of light that had been emanating these incredible chance and anthems and hymns blowing through me and they served as yet another portal once again sound vibration frequency allowing our souls to transcend to higher and higher realms I remember seeing all of space and time collapsing down our four dimensional space-time all down and then that deeper spiritual universe that gateway Valley where causality is very different that's a much more fundamental arrangement of causality and of ascendance of soul groups going towards that oneness with the divine that completely Trump's earth time time here is very much an illusion Einstein knew that he said past present and future cleverly wrought illusions and in fact it's only by getting into the deepest aspects of trying to blend together quantum mechanics and relativity that will completely reassess our views of time and time flow and causality but in those higher levels there's a whole different ordering because this is a spiritual universe that's the ordering of causality is the journey of these souls and soul groups and the whole transcendence of consciousness that tail our de chardin spoke of and that's what this process is about but as I saw all that collapsing down it all came down to this incredibly complex over sphere multiverse all of eternity infinity and that was there like a beach ball as part of the demonstrations in the core realm now the core infinite inky blackness dazzling darkness paradox filled to overflowing not only with light but simultaneously with darkness also with love with the overwhelming power of unconditional love of that divine source for all that is and feeling that witnessing that in any sense is what brings so many near-death experiences back to this world realizing there's absolutely nothing whatsoever to fear about death now in that realm there was also a brilliant orb of light brighter than a million stars that I remember kind of seeing that notion of the three of us that brilliant orb was like a translator or an interpreter to help me to understand the teachings of that infinite divine oneness now in the in that coral realm this really is not something that one can put into any kind of earthly language to make sense I sometimes compare it to being on the edge of a black hole where there is on the one side that infinite one is without any kind of separation of anything and in that core that absolute core we are one with the divine there is no separation now in our Western spiritual traditions there is difficulty with professing anyone this with God to identify with God luckily some of the Eastern spiritual traditions are much better about that but in that core realm there's absolutely no separation but right at that boundary just like the event horizon of a black hole you start to see how all of that kind of apparent separation that works its way to the outermost layers which is where we are in this four dimensional space-time in this illusory here and now but it's seeing that whole process of the back and forth the holographic principle the infinite oneness that also is separated out into the infinite number of parts and yet the whole thing is self referential and only by knowing the oneness can we really come to understand this this is one of the reasons why the approach of our modern science reductive materialism is such an absolute dead end they assume that by tearing everything down to the fundamental parts and then understanding those parts you can figure it all out whereas in fact the top-down approach makes far more sense to me that's why meditation is so important to come to see all of the relationships as opposed to throwing it all out now in that core realm I was told you're not here to stay of course not by words but the conceptual flow but we will teach you many things and it turns out that that's where so many of those lessons applied and yet as I said earlier I would then tumble back down spontaneously into that earth where my view but again by remembering the musical notes of the melody going over them in my mind even at a very primitive course subterranean realm there would come that beautiful clear white light spinning slowly and ushering me back up again into that beautiful gateway Valley on the butterfly wing always welcomed in by that beautiful girl sparkling blue eyes the same message you are loved and cherished deeply forever you will be taken care of you have nothing to fear and then ascending back up through those angelic choirs to those highest levels and the core realm and the oneness and the lessons back again and again but they were they weren't kidding when they said you're not here to stay I had actually come to believe that when they said you you'll be going back back was to the earth were my view so I thought well this isn't that big a problem because by remembering the notes of the melody I'm ever able to get back up out of there but there came a time when that no longer worked I conjured up the notes of the melody and there was no spinning white light to say I was sad at that point would be an understatement if you can imagine monsoon rains throughout all of eternity you might be able to glimpse some of the despair but I will stress that by that time I knew I could trust I've been promised I would be taken care of that I had nothing to fear and I trusted that completely as I always will now it turns out at that point that I was then back in kind of murky misty roiling incredible boiling clouds and and mists and kind of confusion and darkness and lights here and there and I remember seeing out of the those kind of mists below me thousands of beings arcing off in the distance some with candles some with hoods many with their heads bowed with canned murmuring and this murmuring energy was surprising to me because in that kind of dark realm the murmuring energy brought back that same power of unconditional love that I had felt in the Gateway relman in the core and when I wrote it all up weeks later those beings around me by the thousands I said that was the energy of prayer I could feel the prayer for others coming to me helping to bring me back but I didn't know back to what and then there were six phases that appeared and they would come to me kind of boiling out of the mist and I can remember them today as clearly as if it happened this morning but at the time when I saw them I had no idea who they were it turns out that five of them were faces of people who were there in the ICU room the last 24 hours I was in coma so in fact that helped me very much later on to kind of pinpoint all this and realize that the vast majority of the coma journey that seemed to go on for months or years it was a very extraordinary Odyssey but it must have happened between days one in five of earth time of my coma and not at the end when I was coming out that's a very important point because it had to do with trying to figure out how all this happened now one of those faces was of someone who was not there she was never physically within 120 miles of me this was a family friend who had channeled up to me from Chapel Hill North Carolina she had been contacted told I was in deep coma she had done a lot of channeling work with coma patients before and she came to me and I remember her as clearly as the others who were there physically present the ICU room the last last 24 hours of coma but it was really the sixth face that appeared to me that was the most shocking there were many points in this journey where I thought this can all continue or it can cease it does not matter and that was part of my fearlessness was the amnesia allowed me to be fearless but you don't need that all you need to remember is that each and every one of us is a divine eternal spiritual being infinitely connected eternally to the divine and to each other and the LAT that other face changed all of that it was the face of a ten year old boy was my son bond turns out that was at Sunday morning when they'd held the family meeting and bond they had protected from most of the bad news who most of that week and bonded hung around outside the room when they held the family conference and recommended stopping antibiotics and letting nature take its course letting me go and he knew that was bad news so he came running down the hallway into ICU room 10 and there I was on my ventilator as I had been for seven days he pulled open my eyelids daddy you're going to be okay daddy you're going to be okay daddy you're going to be okay as if somehow that would make it so now I promise you I did not see him with my eyes I didn't hear him with my ears I was very far gone in these deep spiritual realms and this was when all that murk and boiling cloud was all around me and I saw those six faces and he was the sixth face and all of a sudden I knew it did matter that I had to go back whatever back was back to and it was my love for him even though I had no notion of his being my son but there was that connection even though I didn't understand the words but that deep connection and I knew I had to come back for bond to be there for him somehow whatever it meant and it's the most difficult thing I've ever done in my entire existence it was like climbing out of a deep dark hole and every grab trying to climb out everything would just collapse in on me it was impossible to come back but it was impossible possible not to come back I had to do it it was that deep bond of love and so that's when I started coming back to this world and as I said when I first came back I had no idea who my even my family members and all were but all that did come back but then the mystery deepened over the next few weeks and months as I was bound and determined to understand this the more I went to my medical records talked it over my doctors and came to realize that this was impossible it could not have happened that ultra-reality was the absolute opposite of what anyone would expect if you think the brain creates consciousness and so in fact it was that linkage with bond and that beautiful love that brought me back to this world and there's another part of that story that I'll be sharing a little more tomorrow that has to do with the great revelation I had about four months after coming out of coma when I was deeply into the mystery of it all coming to realize the similarity of my journey to so many others and what it tells us about the true nature of this universe and about the true nature of our being and what we are here for but I'll have to save that little part of the story for tomorrow and for now what I'd like to do is thank you and close just by reminding you of that beautiful message from my companion on the butterfly wing because it's a message for each and every one of you as spiritual journey errs you are deeply loved and cherished forever you have nothing to fear god bless you all thank you thank you

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