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adaptability, human, 95

afterlife, 152–53

airplanes, author’s love of, 1–2, 61, 159

Alexander, Betsy (sister), 100

and author’s birth family, 59

and author’s return, 108, 113, 120–21

birth of, 53

at the hospital, 42, 89, 91, 94, 97, 120–21

and onset of coma, 26

Alexander, Betty (mother), 50, 94, 99, 105, 108, 113

Alexander, Bond (son), 34, 105

birth of, 12

E. coli drawing by, 75, 98–99, 115

and father’s illness, 14–15, 74, 75, 92, 98–100

and father’s return, 110, 111–12, 115

Alexander, Eben Jr. (father), 50–52, 163

Alexander, Eben III:

adoption of, 52–58, 64–65, 163–64, 170–71

and alcohol use, 56–57

biological family of, 55–56, 58, 59–67, 95, 144, 165, 168–69; see also under Webster

birth of, 62

in coma, see coma

and depression, 57–58

fantasies and delusions of, 115–19, 185–86

as living proof, 135, 171

medical training of, 7–8, 12, 50, 65, 130

as N of 1 (unique case), 89–92

and paranoia, 117–18, 120

recovery of, 120–23, 124

and religion, 34, 147–48

return to earth, 79, 108–10, 111–14, 115–19, 120–21

skydiving adventures, 2–6, 61, 85, 116, 118–19

telling his story, 10, 124–25, 126–28, 135, 136, 144, 162, 170–71

unique NDE of, 9, 77–79, 89–92, 135, 149

and Years of Not Knowing, 66

Alexander, Eben IV (son), 34

birth of, 12

and E. coli drawing, 75, 115

family heritage project of, 54

and father’s illness, 27–28, 33, 75

and father’s return, 111, 112, 120, 124, 126–27, 136

and physical conditioning, 18

Alexander, Holley (wife):

as artist and teacher, 12

at church, 147

and family, 34, 59

at the hospital, 18, 26, 42, 88, 90–94, 97–101, 105

and husband’s return, 108, 111–12, 117, 118, 122

marriage of Eben and, 11–12, 54

and onset of coma, 14–16

Alexander, Jean (sister), see Sullivan, Jean Alexander

Alexander, Phyllis (sister):

and author’s birth family, 59

and author’s return, 108, 113–14, 120–21, 122

birth of, 53

at home, 99–100

at the hospital, 33–34, 36–37, 42, 53, 89, 90–91, 93, 94, 97, 120–21

and onset of coma, 26, 27

rainbow’s appearance to, 105, 113

Alexander-Heyward, Katharine Dayton (Kate), 100

amnesia, 78, 86

angels, 84, 104, 169

as familiar NDE vision, 131

guardian angels, 95–96, 102, 131

see also Girl on Butterfly Wing

APACHE II score, 25

atoms, 150

awareness, 130, 158; see also consciousness

bacteria:

E. coli, see E. coli bacteria

gram-negative type, 25, 27, 42, 92, 149, 183

Gram’s stain classification of, 23

resistant to antibiotics, 43

bacterial attack, 21–22

bacterial conjugation, 20

basal ganglia, 187, 188

belief, power of, 155

Big Bang, 157

binaural beats, 159

Black Death, 43, 50

bliss, 124

Bohr, Niels, 154

brain:

absence of, 8, 129–30, 135

access to, 35

adaptability of, 95

attack on, 17–19, 20–21, 42, 132–33, 149

as barrier, 72, 80