Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife Book

Prologue 1

1 The Pain 11

2 The Hospital 17

3 Out of Nowhere 23

4 Eben IV 25

5 Underworld 29

6 An Anchor to Life 33

7 The Spinning Melody and the Gateway 38

8 Israel 42

9 The Core 45

10 What Counts 50

11 An End to the Downward Spiral 59

12 The Core 68

13 Wednesday 74

14 A Special Kind of NDE 76

15 The Gift of Forgetting 80

16 The Well 87

17 N of 1 89

18 To Forget, and to Remember 95

19 Nowhere to Hide 97

20 The Closing 102

21 The Rainbow 105

22 Six Faces 108

23 Final Night, First Morning 111

24 The Return 115

25 Not There Yet 120

26 Spreading the News 124

27 Homecoming 126

28 The Ultra-Real 129

29 A Common Experience 131

30 Back from the Dead 136

31 Three Camps 140

32 A Visit to Church 147

33 The Enigma of Consciousness 149

34 A Final Dilemma 162

35 The Photograph 165

Eternea 172

Acknowledgments 173

Reading List 177

Appendix A Statement Scott Wade, M.D. 183

Appendix B Neuroscientific Hypotheses I Considered to Explain My Experience 185

Index 189