A brain surgeon who slipped into a week-long coma says he and it was full of “marshmallow clouds” and was “as vivid as the aroma of ”. Docs came close to switching off life support as an E coli infection ate into his brain “like acid”. He now claims to be the “only person to have travelled to a heavenly dimension with the cortex in complete shut-down” while under medical observation throughout.
He describes seeing “valleys of lush and fertile greenery, where waterfalls flowed into crystal pools” in his book A Map of Heaven. He said: “I witnessed stunning blue-black velvety skies filled with swooping orbs of golden light, angelic choirs leaving sparkling trails against the billowing clouds. “Those choirs produced hymns and anthems far beyond anything I had ever encountered on earth.
“The sound was colossal. “Everything was connected to everything else, like the infinitely complex swirls on a Persian carpet or a butterfly’s wing. And I was flying on that carpet, riding on that wing.
” Dr Alexander, from Virginia, US, said he was sceptical of people who claimed to have seen heaven before his own bonkers experience. He said: “My knowledge of the brain made me quite sure that out-of-body experiences, angelic encounters and the like were hallucinations, brought on when the brain suffered a trauma. “And then, in the most dramatic circumstances possible, I discovered proof that I was wrong.
” He woke up one morning six years ago with a “searing�.