There is a story here, but the author failed miserably to convey it. I’d need to read it 10 times to figure out what he is saying. Terrible use of unfamiliar terms, along with poor writing in general, render the book to be a waste of time.

Absolutely amazing that we have even a small glimpse of the light and love from heaven.

If you remotely believe in life after death, this book does a beautiful job of discouraging doubt. Why is it so hard for us to believe we don’t know everything and not all things can be explained away? I appreciate the message that the author conveys to the reader-we are all loved and we are all connected. I needed to remember that today.

I found that the author’s narcissistic personality disorder made this book really difficult to read. Eben Alexander’s need to be the best at everything nagged at me from the beginning. I found myself being distracted wondering if he really was the surgical genius he makes himself out to be why did he leave Brigham and Women’s. About halfway through when he claims that his near-death experience was much better than everyone else’s I had to stop reading. I just could not take any more. This is a topic that I am very interested in hearing more about. But this author’s need to puff up everything to ten times its natural size made me think that I would learn more from a different book.

This book made me cry and opened my eyes to a world I ignored.

I loved the book and read it in 2 days and I am NOT a reader! I enjoyed it and I believe everything he wrote, however, I was expecting detailed account of him being in heaven and honestly, he gives very little details about heaven. Each chapter that he writes about heaven, he refers to 3 “levels” of heaven, a Realm of Earthworm’s Eye View, flying into a butterfly’s wing ( Gateway) and The Core that he felt was god. He would leave the core and go back to the Earthworm’s Eye View and then the gateway and then the Core...over and over? The book goes into a lot of detail about these 3 levels he experienced, but nothing about actual heaven. He said when flying on the butterfly’s wings he would be over beautiful fields, children running and playing, etc. But he never walks in the fields, meets or speaks to the kids playing, etc. Don’t get me wrong, it was a great read, but instead of feeling I’ve learned more about heaven, I’m was left with way more questions than anything.

Wow! What I would have given to have had access to this book early in my business career. Secretly I never really felt fully worthy of my success and it kept me from excelling until I figured this out. Once you understand your value to the world, everything becomes easy and fun. This is the first and only book I’ve ever seen on this subject and it’s excellent. Read Josh’s book and save yourself from a life of mediocrity.

👌🏼great one

I enjoyed this book. It's a quick read that feels a little stretched out but understandably so because there are just no words to describe the experience this man has gone through. I loved that this particular doctor is connecting science and spirituality-that they can coexist. It was a great read and definitely thought provoking.

Amazing book! Extremely detailed and well written. Have and would recommend it to anyone !