Life After Life (Moody book)

Life After Life: The Investigation of a Phenomenon—Survival of Bodily Death
First edition
Author	Raymond A. Moody
Publisher	Mockingbird Books
Publication date	1975
Media type	Print
Pages	175
ISBN	978-0-89176-037-5
OCLC	12173853

Life After Life is a 1975 book written by psychiatrist Raymond Moody. It is a report on a qualitative study in which Moody interviewed 150 people who had undergone near-death experiences (NDEs). The book presents the author's composite account of what it is like to die, supplemented with individual accounts.^[1]^[2] On the basis of his collection of cases, Moody identified a common set of elements in NDEs:^[3]

(a) an overwhelming feeling of peace and well-being, including freedom from pain.

(b) the impression of being located outside one's physical body.

(c) floating or drifting through darkness, sometimes described as a tunnel.

(d) becoming aware of a golden light.

(e) encountering and perhaps communicating with a "being of light".

(f) having a rapid succession of visual images of one's past.

(g) experiencing another world of much beauty.^[3]

Life After Life sold more than 13 million copies,^[4] was translated into a dozen foreign languages^[5] and became an international best seller, which made the subject of NDEs popular and opened the way for many other studies.^[6]^[7]

Reception

Moody's alleged evidence for an afterlife was heavily criticized as flawed, both logically and empirically.^[8] The psychologist and skeptic James Alcock has noted that "[Moody] appears to ignore a great deal of the scientific literature dealing with hallucinatory experiences in general, just as he quickly glosses over the very real limitations of his research method."^[9]

The philosopher and skeptic Paul Kurtz has written that Moody's evidence for the NDE is based on personal interviews and anecdotal accounts and there has been no statistical analyses of his data. According to Kurtz, "there is no reliable evidence that people who report such experiences have died and returned, or that consciousness exists separate from the brain or body."^[10]

References

^ Clifton D. Bryant (2003). Handbook of Death and Dying Sage, p.138.
^ Michael Marsh. Review: Beyond Death: The Rebirth of Immortality The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 7, No. 5 (Oct., 1977), pp. 40–42.
^ ^a ^b Harvey J. Irwin and Caroline Watt. An introduction to parapsychology McFarland, 2007, p. 159.
^ Towards the light The Age, March 23, 2004.
^ Louis E. LaGrand (1999), Messages and miracles: extraordinary experiences of the bereaved, St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Worldwide, p. 9, ISBN 1-56718-406-5
^ Harvey J. Irwin, Caroline Watt (2007). An introduction to parapsychology McFarland, p. 158.
^ Duane S. Crowther (2005). Life Everlasting Cedar Fort, p. 19.
^ Barry Beyerstein. (1990). Evaluating the Anomalous Experience. In Kendrick Frazier. The Hundredth Monkey and Other Paradigms of the Paranormal. Prometheus Books. pp. 43–53. ISBN 0-87975-655-1
^ James Alcock. (1981). Psychology and Near-Death Experiences. In Kendrick Frazier. Paranormal Borderlands of Science. Prometheus Books. pp. 153–169. ISBN 0-87975-148-7
^ Paul Kurtz. (1991). Toward a New Enlightenment: The Philosophy of Paul Kurtz. Transaction Publishers. p. 349. ISBN 1-56000-118-6

External links

v t e Reincarnation research
Principal field researchers	Erlendur Haraldsson Antonia Mills Satwant Pasricha Ian Stevenson Jim B. Tucker
Other researchers	Robert Almeder Carol Bowman Stephen E. Braude Gina Cerminara C. T. K. Chari Curt Ducasse Peter Fenwick Joe Fisher Théodore Flournoy Andrea Foulkes Yonassan Gershom Arthur Guirdham Raynor Johnson Frederick Lenz Vicki Mackenzie Raymond Moody Gardner Murphy Michael Newton ‎ Jane Roberts D. Scott Rogo Godwin Samararatne Tom Shroder Jess Stearn Brian Weiss Carl Wickland
Books	Children's Past Lives European Cases of the Reincarnation Type Life After Life: The Investigation of a Phenomenon—Survival of Bodily Death Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children's Memories of Previous Lives Old Souls: The Scientific Evidence For Past Lives Reincarnation and Biology: A Contribution to the Etiology of Birthmarks and Birth Defects Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect
Cases	Corliss Chotkin Jenny Cockell Shanti Devi Dorothy Eady Arthur Flowerdew Joan Grant Dolores Jay Ada Kay Bridey Murphy Lobsang Rampa Edward Ryall Hélène Smith

v t e Parapsychology
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Topics	Apparitional experience Astral projection Auras Bilocation Clairvoyance Deathbed phenomena Dermo-optical perception Dream telepathy Ectoplasm Electronic voice phenomenon Extrasensory perception Ganzfeld experiment Ghosts Kirlian photography Levitation Materialization Mediumship Near-death experience Orb Out-of-body experience Pam Reynolds case Paranormal Parapsychology research at SRI Past life regression Plant perception (paranormal) Poltergeist Precognition Psychic Psychic detective Psychic reading Psychic surgery Psychometry Pyrokinesis Reincarnation Remote viewing Retrocognition Second sight Sensory leakage Spoon bending Superconscious Telekinesis Telepathy Thoughtography Xenoglossy Zener cards
Active organizations	American Society for Psychical Research Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena College of Psychic Studies Institut Métapsychique International Institute of Noetic Sciences International Association for Near-Death Studies Koestler Parapsychology Unit Parapsychological Association Parapsychology Foundation Rhine Research Center Society for Psychical Research The Ghost Club
Defunct organizations	American Psychical Institute British College of Psychic Science Cambridge Ghost Society International Institute for Psychical Research London Dialectical Society Metropolitan Psychical Society National Laboratory of Psychical Research Oxford Phasmatological Society Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Laboratory Society for the Study of Supernormal Pictures
People	List of parapsychologists Skeptics of parapsychology
Publications	An Experiment with Time Extrasensory Perception Irreducible Mind Journal of Near-Death Studies Journal of Parapsychology Journal of Scientific Exploration Life After Life Life Before Life Mental Radio Old Souls: The Scientific Evidence for Past Lives Parapsychology: Frontier Science of the Mind The Roots of Coincidence Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation Varieties of Anomalous Experience
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