
Awakening and Near-Death Experiences: With Dr Eben Alexander
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In this episode, Simon sits down with Dr Eben Alexander, a Harvard-trained neurosurgeon whose dramatic near-death experience – documented in his bestseller Proof of Heaven – overturned his materialist worldview.
Simon shares his own kensho (awakening) from last year and explores a central question with Eben: do an awakening and an NDE point to the same underlying reality?
Together they dive into:
- Why both experiences reveal love as the essence of reality
- How Eben’s NDE challenged the belief that consciousness comes from the brain
- Life reviews, reincarnation and what may happen when we die
- The ego as a survival programme – and why “loving it to death” can be more powerful than fighting it
- Awakening as a form of inner richness that no amount of money can buy, and Eben’s stark views on hoarding wealth
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