Dr. Eben Alexander, Neurosurgeon, a near-death experiencer, explains his understanding as a result of his NDE experience:
“... it has to do with our learning lessons in this life. That’s why I look at hardship, difficulties, challenges, and as a healer I look at disease and illness, as the opportunities for growth; and, our souls are here to learn lessons and we learn them through the difficulties in this life, by embracing those difficulties and seeing them as learning opportunities, realizing that by manifesting that love and compassion in this imperfect realm, that that is how we progress in that higher spiritual realm. And given that the whole direction of that and the fabric of that higher realm is made of that love, and that evil is but an impurity that allows us to manifest our free will; given that the ascendence in that outer realm has everything to do with moving towards that unconditional love from the creator to the creation. Anyone who is handing out mayhem and pain in this world is going to have to make up for that wrongward direction either in this life or in other lives. So, it’s, I mean, to me, that all is kind of the way I have to put it all together. Of course, it does involve reincarnation as a very necessary part of it.”
NYT #1 Bestseller, Proof of Heaven, by Eben Alexander
