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Dr. Eben Alexander on His Near-Death Experience—And What He’s Learned About Consciousness

By Eben Alexander

In 2008, Eben Alexander, MD, an academic neurosurgeon for over twenty-five years, fell into a deep coma. Not only did he make a full and miraculous recovery, but he recounted an incredibly deep and profound near-death experience from his time in this coma, when the neocortex of his brain was completely shut down.

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Why We Should Rethink What We’ve Been Told About Consciousness

If we as adults are not free to make sovereign decisions—right or wrong—about our own consciousness, that most intimate, that most sapient, that most personal part of ourselves, then in what useful sense can we be said to be free at all?

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Consciousness