Dr. Vivekanand Palavali
Dr. Vivekanand Palavali is a brain surgeon by profession with thirty years’ experience and an author and documentary filmmaker by passion. He is the author of A Mindful Life: A Brainsurgeon’s Personal Experiences and Philosophical Reflections on Living Life Fully and Bitter Pill: America and Healthcare in America. He produced four documentary feature films pertaining to the neuroscience of mysticism, religiosity, and issues of healthcare disparity. Two of his documentary films, Creator of God: A Brain Surgeon’s Story and Bitter Pill: America and Healthcare in America have garnered best documentary awards in film festivals.He is a secular and scientific humanist and has given presentations at American Humanist Association conferences as well as Skeptics in the Pub and Center for Inquiry meetings. He enjoys oil painting, world travel, nature, philosophy, and science.
Posts by Dr. Vivekanand Palavali
EXCERPT: Searching for Soul: A Brain Surgeon’s Exploration of Near-Death Experience and Afterlife
THE FIRE Patricia vividly remembered, even after twenty years, the potentially deadly situation she was in. What should have been a terrifying near death... Read More