In Life After Life, Dr Raymond
A. Moody Jr. studies the life that comes after our present physical life,
that is life beyond death.
This is something that a great majority of
people believes in. Billions of individuals believe in many well-known
religions, which defend the existence of a soul (sometimes called differently:
psyche, mind, spirit, self, being, conscience, particle of energy, etc.)
and its life after physical death. There are few people who say they don’t
believe in that life beyond death.
However, what has been accepted by Religion
hasn’t been properly studied by Science. For many generations, the scientific
study of these subjects was considered taboo.
Finally in this century, some scientists with
merit have been making efforts to throw light on the life that is considered
by many the true life, because it is eternal.
Dr Moody graduated in Philosophy at the University
of Virginia, and in Medicine at the University of North Carolina., where
he teaches Philosophy of Medicine. He says he “believes that all great
religions have some truths to tell us” and also “that all answers to all
profound and fundamental truths are inside us.” He is a member of the Methodist
Church.
For a couple of years, he studied more than
one hundred and fifty cases of people that went through what he calls “near-death
experiences”:
1) People who were brought to life after having
been declared clinically dead by a doctor.
2) People who have been close to death after
having had an accident or being seriously wounded or ill.
3) People who told other people what was happening
to them while they were dying.
From the study of these situations, Dr Moody
gathered some facts which most of the cases had in common, and concluded
that when “a man is dying he reaches a level of greater physical relaxation
and hears the doctor or whoever saying he is dead.
After that he hears a strange sound and, at
the same time, he starts moving through a long, dark tunnel. Suddenly he
feels he is out of his physical body, but he is near it, in such a way
that he can see it as a spectator. From this external point, he watches
the reanimation attempts, and he feels emotionally confused.
After some time, he responds, he gets used
to his strange and new condition. He notices he still has a “body”, but
of a different nature and with very different characteristics from the
one he left.
Soon, some other beings come to him to greet
and help him. He feels the presence of relatives and friends who were already
dead. Then a nice spirit appears, a light, who suggests an evaluation of
his life, but not a verbal one; he helps, showing him a momentary panorama
of the most important moments of his life.
At a certain time , he feels he is approaching
a kind of frontier, which apparently represents the limit between life
on earth and the other life. He feels, however, he has to come back, it’s
still not time for him to die. At that moment, he resists — he joins his
physical body again and survives.
Later, he tries to tell others, but he finds
it difficult. First he can’t find the appropriate words to describe these
experiences. He also notices that other people make fun of him and he gives
up. However, this experience affects his life deeply, specially his opinion
about death and his relationship with physical life.”
In this book, Dr Moody studied the first steps
of life after life. The results of his study are similar to those of Dr
George Ritchie, Dr Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Dr Robert Kastenbaum, Dr Melvin
Morse and many others, in different European and Northern American universities.
And besides these first steps, there is a
lot more to investigate and find out...
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