Doubts Over Eben Alexander's Flying On A Butterfly In Heaven Story
Last week I published a post Flying On A Butterfly In Heaven which was based on a book by a Dr Eben Alexander. I included a quote from the Daily Mail in the post.
Since then I read the following letter on the Daily Mail’s letter page:
Why give this ‘happy clappy’ moron space to expound his badly written bunkum? His Mills & Boon style descriptions of the afterlife made me laugh out loud – but what’s not so funny is that the path he now treads smacks of streetwise marketing.
Heaven will always be an emotive and interesting topic, but I doubt there will ever be any proof for the living.”
~ Joy Evans, Hythe, Kent.
This concerned me as I always publish in good faith. I therefore made a few enquiries on the Internet about Dr Alexander. Amazingly the Daily Mail wrote the following about this man on 24 Dec 2013 – but still went on to promote his book in October 2014 with articles over several days.
- ‘Proof of Heaven’ doctor faced a $3million malpractice lawsuit when he fell into a coma
- Dr Eben Alexander was tied for the highest number of medical malpractice suits at the time that he fell into a coma following an E. coli infection
- He wrote a book in 2012 about his experience ‘seeing the other side’
- He touted the book as the work of a neurosurgeon, but he hadn’t practised surgery- let alone neurosurgery- for four years prior to the publication
For the full December 2013 Daily Mail article see here.
Esquire magazine also did an investigation. They write:
Unfortunately Esquire now require payment to view the full article see here.
If we look at Wikipedia they write:
Alexander issued a statement after the Esquire article’s publication: ‘I wrote a truthful account of my experiences in Proof Of Heaven and have acknowledged in the book both my professional and personal accomplishments and my setbacks. I stand by every word in this book and have made its message the purpose of my life. Esquire’s cynical article distorts the facts of my 25-year career as a neurosurgeon and is a textbook example of how unsupported assertions and cherry-picked information can be assembled at the expense of the truth.”
One of the factors about Alexander’s books is that it is, to quote, “A neurosurgeon’s journey into the afterlife.” This gave the book a certain status.
It’s still possible that Alexander did have that ‘journey’ but it does now feel a little tainted.
I wanted to clarify this so readers have the facts as I now know them.
Source: http://www.67notout.com/2014/10/doubts-over-eben-alexanders-flying-on.html
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