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Raymond A. Moody, Jr., MD, PhD
Raymond A. Moody, Jr. is an author, researcher, teacher, and world-renowned authority on near-death experiences, which he recounts in his groundbreaking book Life After Life. His other books include Reunions, the result of research into facilitating the apparitions of deceased family and friends as a way to help people recover from grief, and most recently Life After Loss.
Moody is a parapsychologist with a medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia and doctorate degrees in philosophy and psychology from the University of Virginia. He has compiled the list of features many consider typical of the near-death experience (NDE): a buzzing or ringing noise; a sense of blissful peace; a feeling of floating out of one's body and observing it from above; moving through a tunnel into a bright light; meeting dead people, saints, Christ, angels, etc.; seeing one's life pass before one's eyes; and, he says, finding it all so wonderful that one doesn't want to return to one's body.
Moody conducts his paranormal studies at his private research institute in rural Alabama, which he calls the John Dee Memorial Theater of the Mind. Dee popularized crystal gazing in 16th century England and Moody is continuing in the spirit of Dee, trying to evoke apparitions of the dead under controlled conditions. Moody has a mirrored room where guests hope for a visit from a dead loved one. Moody is also an advocate of past life regression. He claims that he was skeptical about reincarnation until undergoing hypnotherapy during which he discovered that he had had nine past lives. He claims that just about anyone can experience a "past-life journey" and that such trips help one overcome phobias, compulsions, addictions and depression, among other things. Moody currently holds the position of the Bigelow Chair of Consciousness Studies at the University of Northern Las Vegas where he teaches courses including seminars on paranormal phenomenon including the spiritual aspects of the grieving process. |
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