Life after Life
About This Book
"I had a floating sensation ... and I looked back and I could see myself on the bed below." "I went through this dark black vacuum at super speed." "From the moment the light spoke to me, I felt really good -- secure and loved." "I heard a voice telling me what I had to do -- go back -- and I felt no fear." "It opened up a whole new world for me -- I kept thinking, 'There's so much I've got to find out.'" In this fascinating book, Dr. Moody reveals his groundbreaking study of more than one hundred people who experienced "clinical death" -- and were revived. Their amazing testimonies and surprising descriptions of "death" and "beyond" are so strikingly similar, so vivid and so overwhelmingly positive that they have changed the way we view life, death, and the spiritual hereafter. "Life After Death will intrigue and offer strong reassurance to anyone who has wondered "what comes next?"
What You'll Learn
• Understand the consistent features of the near-death experience as Moody documented them: the out-of-body awareness, the tunnel, the being of light, the life review, the encounter with deceased relatives, and the return — and why their consistency across independent accounts argues against the hypothesis of mere hallucination
• Grasp the life review as Moody's subjects described it: the panoramic, simultaneous experience of every moment of one's life, the felt experience of the impact of one's actions on others, and the quality of the being of light's presence during the review as one of total understanding rather than judgement
• Recognise the common transformative effects of the NDE on those who return: the loss of fear of death, the increased capacity for love and compassion, the changed relationship to material success, and the universal conviction that love and knowledge are the two things that genuinely matter
• Learn the philosophical implications Moody draws: why the consistent reporting of experiences that transcend the ordinary functions of a brain that was, in many cases, measurably inactive during the experience constitutes a genuine challenge to the materialist model of consciousness
• Appreciate the cultural legacy of the book: how Life after Life changed the conversation about death in Western medicine, inspired the palliative care movement's attention to the spiritual dimension of dying, and gave millions of bereaved people a framework for understanding what may have happened to those they loved
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