The Map of Heaven Quotes

“This earthly realm is, I believe, where we are meant to learn the lessons of unconditional love, compassion, forgiveness, and acceptance. Our knowing of our eternal spiritual nature is not meant to be as clear to us as the moon rising in the sky at night. Our ability to fully learn the most important lessons of life depends on our being partially veiled from that more complete (yet finite) knowing that our higher souls possess between lives. How”
― Eben Alexander, The Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion, and Ordinary People Are Proving the Afterlife

“It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowledge is, no matter how it may bother those in power. We are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible and which are not. —CARL SAGAN (1934–1996)”
― Eben Alexander, The Map of Heaven: A neurosurgeon explores the mysteries of the afterlife and the truth about what lies beyond

“The word human itself comes from the same root as humus, earth.”
― Eben Alexander, The Map of Heaven: A neurosurgeon explores the mysteries of the afterlife and the truth about what lies beyond

“the fact is that the universe has been presenting modern science with evidence that the universe is spiritual first, and physical second, for more than a hundred years.”
― Eben Alexander, The Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion, and Ordinary People Are Proving the Afterlife

“That another world is trying to talk to us, and that the more we listen, the more we will understand. The twin streams of science and spirit, rather than fighting, are entwined”
― Eben Alexander, The Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion, and Ordinary People Are Proving the Afterlife

“found some correlation between elements that I identified from the music of my NDE and similar music she has identified among other NDE-ers in her “Dead Symphony” project.I”
― Eben Alexander, The Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion, and Ordinary People Are Proving the Afterlife

“This world is not all there is. There is a larger one, of which this seemingly complete earthly world is the tiniest slice. That larger world is ruled by love, and we are all on our way home to it, so we should never despair.”
― Eben Alexander, The Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion, and Ordinary People Are Proving the Afterlife

“Death: It is the greatest adventure. It is stunning that in western civilization we deny it to the degree that we do. Perhaps that goes a long way toward explaining our societal dysfunction.”
― Eben Alexander, The Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion, and Ordinary People Are Proving the Afterlife

“Unlettered peoples are ignorant of many things, but they are seldom stupid because, having to rely on their memories, they are more likely to remember what is important. Literate peoples, by contrast, are apt to get lost in their vast libraries of recorded information.I —HUSTON SMITH, RELIGION SCHOLAR”
― Eben Alexander, The Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion, and Ordinary People Are Proving the Afterlife

“Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the Twenty-first Century.”
― Eben Alexander, The Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion, and Ordinary People Are Proving the Afterlife

“To understand the world, we have to believe that the world makes sense, and that it is open to being understood by us. That is the hidden faith component in all science.”
― Eben Alexander, The Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion, and Ordinary People Are Proving the Afterlife

“There is no way to separate the observer from the observed.”
― Eben Alexander, The Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion, and Ordinary People Are Proving the Afterlife

“Observations,” he wrote, “not only disturb what is to be measured, they produce it.” This doesn’t necessarily mean that we make reality with our imaginations; but it does mean that consciousness is so tied up with reality that there is no way of conceiving reality without it. Consciousness is the true bedrock of existence.”
― Eben Alexander, The Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion, and Ordinary People Are Proving the Afterlife

“Where did we come from? Where are we going?”
― Eben Alexander, The Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion, and Ordinary People Are Proving the Afterlife

“Human beings have been around in our modern form for about one hundred thousand years. For most of this time, three questions have been intensely important to us: Who are we?”
― Eben Alexander, The Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion, and Ordinary People Are Proving the Afterlife

“Dogmatic religion is not open to people having direct access to those higher realms.”
― Eben Alexander, The Map of Heaven: A neurosurgeon explores the mysteries of the afterlife and the truth about what lies beyond

“Death: It is the greatest adventure. It is stunning that in western civilization we deny it to the degree that we do. Perhaps that goes a long way toward explaining our societal dysfunction. The”
― Eben Alexander, The Map of Heaven: A neurosurgeon explores the mysteries of the afterlife and the truth about what lies beyond

“Our choice is not whether or not to be interested in philosophical questions, but whether or not to become conscious of the fact that, as human beings, we can’t help but be. To”
― Eben Alexander, The Map of Heaven: A neurosurgeon explores the mysteries of the afterlife and the truth about what lies beyond

“The realm of soul is like an ocean.”
― Eben Alexander, The Map of Heaven: A neurosurgeon explores the mysteries of the afterlife and the truth about what lies beyond

“My whole life has been a search for belonging.”
― Eben Alexander, The Map of Heaven: A neurosurgeon explores the mysteries of the afterlife and the truth about what lies beyond

“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness. —MAX PLANCK (1858–1947), QUANTUM PHYSICIST”
― Eben Alexander, The Map of Heaven: A neurosurgeon explores the mysteries of the afterlife and the truth about what lies beyond

“For most of this time, three questions have been intensely important to us: Who are we? Where did we come from? Where are we going?”
― Eben Alexander, The Map of Heaven: A neurosurgeon explores the mysteries of the afterlife and the truth about what lies beyond

“This earthly realm is, I believe, where we are meant to learn the lessons of unconditional love, compassion, forgiveness, and acceptance.”
― Eben Alexander, The Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion, and Ordinary People Are Proving the Afterlife

“If your husband died, and he loved cardinals, and on the anniversary of his death you happen to walk out to his memorial and you find a cardinal sitting on it, you are allowed to take this as a sign. Don’t let some voice inside you tell you that the cardinal’s presence there is a coincidence. Not unless you understand the word coincidence, which means two things occupying one place, in terms of the deeper and better term, synchronicity. “If you smile at me,” a line”
― Eben Alexander, The Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion, and Ordinary People Are Proving the Afterlife