#72 - Seeking Heaven - Eben Alexander with Karen Newell

Title:   Seeking Heaven

Author:  Eben Alexander

Genre:  Non-fiction   158.12

Read by:  author and Karen Newell

Publisher/Date:  Simon and Schuster/2013

Dates listened to:   11/25 – 11/27/17

CD/Hours: 3/3

ISBN:  978-1-4423-6755-5

Categorized as Religion & Spirituality, this short presentation is subtitled Sound Journeys into the Beyond.   “Dr. Alexander presents four 30-minute audio meditations to achieve the altered state of mind that enables him to return to the idyllic realm he describes in Proof of Heaven, to access the brain state of blissful higher consciousness that he attained during his near-death experience.”

In this audio he worked closely with meditation audio specialist Sacred Acoustics to develop four guided meditations that listeners can use to alter their consciousness and achieve comparable results. 

I listened to most of the white noise.  And to the commentary about each segment.  Each segment takes you deeper into your consciousness and lasts longer than the previous section.  For example, the first part, as in all four parts, invites you to stay aware of what’s going on, to journal afterwards what you felt from experiences of other sounds, physical sensations or the like.  It’s not meant to put you sleep, although this may happen and if you have trouble sleeping, is a good thing.

The answer to the question of why you would want to even do this is that the doctor wanted “to help awaken our world to the deepest mystery of our existence, to make these tools for exploration of consciousness widely available to those who seek a greater knowing of ourselves, our purposes and the meaning of existence.  While you don’t have to spend hours a day to get positive results, it’s not some quick and easy process.”  

In my previous review of Proof of Heaven I wrote:  How can you be in a coma and experience what it may be like after you die?  Dr. Alexander analyzes his near-death experience (NDE) during his coma. NDEs are controversial yet thousands of people have had them.  Many in the scientific community have argued that they are impossible.  Yet, Dr. Alexander survived his ordeal and has now written the account of what he experienced during his week-long coma.  What do you think?  

Not sure you have to believe in NDE to experience good results from listening to these meditations.