A neuroscientist’s near-death experience reveals a consciousness that goes beyond science

What happens when a neuroscientist, trained to view consciousness through the lens of science, encounters an experience that defies everything he believed? A Harvard-trained neurosurgeon once dismissed near-death experiences as mere hallucinations. But a life-changing event in 2008 tested his understanding of the brain, consciousness and what might lie behind them. He claims that there are no scientific or neurological explanations for his profound experience of the “afterlife.” Now he claims that science shows that the brain does not create consciousness and suggests that consciousness can persist after death. He has shared his extraordinary journey of what happened when he ‘died’. In 2008…