By Dr Eben Alexander

Published: 19:29 EST, 20 October 2014 | Updated: 03:11 EST, 21 October 2014

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Leading neurosurgeon Dr Eben Alexander was sceptical when anyone said they had experienced the after-life. But then he had a similar experience after going into a coma. In our final extract from his book, The Map Of Heaven, Dr Alexander who has worked at Harvard Medical School explains that there is one thing that endures after we die: love.

Science cannot explain the after-life. For many people who use scientific evidence as the sole basis of their belief system, this must mean the after-life doesnt exist.

According to them, death is the end and heaven is a convenient lie we tell to ourselves and our children.

My 25-year career as an academic neuro- scientist, studying the workings of the brain, led me to the conclusion that life after death was a brain-based illusion until I experienced a journey into the hereafter during a coma after developing meningitis.

Now I hold a very different view: the after- life is real. If science doesnt recognise this fact, then it is doing two things wrong.

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Dr Eben Alexander has lost his scepticism about the after-life