Book Review of
"Life after Life"
by Raymond A. Moody
Stackpole Books, 1976
Review by Bill Schaeffer
video copyright (C) 2013
William Schaeffer
from the book:
Chapter Two
"The Experience of Dying"
p.31
"Despite the wide variatio…
Book Review of
"Life after Life"
by Raymond A. Moody
Stackpole Books, 1976
Review by Bill Schaeffer
video copyright (C) 2013
William Schaeffer
from the book:
Chapter Two
"The Experience of Dying"
p.31
"Despite the wide variations in the circumstances surrounding close calls with death and in the types of persons undergoing them, it remains true that there is a striking similarity among the accounts of the experiences themselves. In fact the similarities among various reports are so great that one can easily pick out fifteen separate elements which recur again and again..."
1. Ineffability - "There are no words to express this..."
2. Hearing the News - "...hearing their doctors or spectators pronounce them dead."
3. Feelings of Peace and Quiet - "The most wonderful feelings.. of peace and comfort."
4. The Noise - "...described as a loud click, a roaring, a banging, and as a whistling sound" "Japanese wind bells, or a really beautiful sort of music."
5. The Dark Tunnel - "...being pulled very rapidly through a dark space of some kind."
6. Out of the Body - "...looking down on the physical body from a point outside of it."
7. Meeting Others - "..the presence of other spiritual beings in their vicinity."
8. The Being of Light - "...the encounter with a very bright light...a being of light. The light and warmth that eminate from this being... are utterly beyond words."
9. The Review - "...the being presents to the person a panoramic review of his life."
10. The Boarder of Limit - "...a body of water, a gray mist, a door, a fence, or a line."
11. Coming Back - "returning to the body."
12. Telling Others - "...no doubt of the reality and its importance."
13. Effects on Lives - "... lives were broadened and deepened by their experience, that because of it they became more reflective and more concerned with ultimate philosophical issues."
14. New Views of Death - "... no longer afraid of death."
15. Corroboration - "...description of events witnessed while out of the body tend to check out fairly well."
p.109
"Emanuel Swedenborg describes how, when the bodily functions of respiration and circulation cease,
'Still man does not die, but is only separated from the corporeal part which was of use to him in the world...
man when he dies, only passes from one world into another.'"
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