Eben Alexander

Author, neurosurgeon, NDE experiencer

Eben Alexander, MD, was an academic neurosurgeon for over 25 years, including 15 years at the
Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School in Boston. In
2008, he experienced a transcendental Near-Death Experience (NDE) during a week-long coma
from an inexplicable brain infection that completely transformed his worldview. A pioneering
scientist and modern thought leader in the emerging science that acknowledges the primacy of
consciousness in the universe, he is the author of the New York Times #1 bestseller Proof of
Heaven, The Map of Heaven and Living in a Mindful Universe.