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Life After Life

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One day in 1995 I died, and had a NDE. Ever since then, I've been reading everything I can on the subject. According to most stories I've read, I had an unusual one, not going down a tunnel, but experiencing many interesting phenomena all the same. It seems to me that there are some NDE books and magazine articles that are just hype, and published just to give recognition. I have found, through my many years and multitudes of books on the subject, that there is an underlining truth and spirit that pervades the true experiences. So, I have compiled a list of my best reads for NDE books - ones that I consider genuine and adding validating light to the personal NDE experience. I have left out compilations, these are personal narratives. I hope you enjoy them too.
Embraced by the Light ------by Betty J. Eadie
Psychic Gifts ---------by Tiffany Snow
Saved by the Light --------by Dannion Brinkley
4 Days in Eternity ---------by Wayne F.A. Marentette
After the Light -------------by Kimberly Clark Sharp

This is the book that seems to have initiated the avalanche of popular interest in the near-death-experience (NDE) phenomenon back in 1975. Not only does it contain many (very similar) testimonies from various people who have had the experience, but it also contains discussions on ancient writings (by Plato, in the Tibetan Book of the Dead, etc.) that describe essentially the same things. The author has also included chapters in which he fields various questions that he has been asked about the NDE phenomenon, as well as on various attempts at explaining it. This edition, published in 2001, is the 25th anniversary edition of the book that was originally published in 1975. In addition to the original text, it contains a new preface by Dr. Melvin Morse, as well as a new afterword written by the author. Since this book's original publication, much has been written about NDEs in medical journals and popular literature alike; research and debate on this issue continue to this very day. The writing style is very clear, concise, friendly, authoritative, widely accessible and quite captivating. This is a book that can be read with utter fascination by anyone.

And I still have sentimental feelings for it. When someone I know has passed on, I hope that the things I've read in "Life After Life" really do provide a "preview."

But if you read Connie Willis' "Passage," a novel about scientists who study NDEs, you will wonder. You will ask just how Moody conducted his research. Did he ask his subjects leading questions? Did he encourage them down certain paths?

Nobody wants to believe his vision more than I. But there are things that we non-scientists need to know before evaluating a work like this. This is not to say that Connie's vision is "correct." But her book points out the weaknesses that MAY be inherent in "Life After Life." If a researcher goes in with pre-conceived notions and expectations, he can - if he's skillful and personable - lead his witnesses to the conclusions he has already drawn.

Death is a mystery, folks. That's the way it is.

After reading many books by several empowering authors such as Betty Eadie, John Edward, Sylvia Browne, and Tiffany Snow, that I am still reading, my life has opened up to me in such a compelling and wonderful way. This new book is well written, and thought provoking. There are great transforming authors, who shift the consciousness of humankind in a way never known before, and have the courage to reveal their paranormal experiences. The "The Investigation" is one of these.

Although this book is a classic, Raymond Moody later wrote another book called "The Last Laugh" which he wishes was an addendum to "Life After Life." In "Last Laugh" he has backed off the claim that NDE's are evidence of an afterlife. However, if one is interested in an indepth assessment of the afterlife evidence, then I highly recommend Stephen Braude's "Immortal Remains" which also gives very good reasons why NDE's are poor evidence for the "survivalist" hypothesis. If you examine much of the survival evidence, it's not clear what to say. It's not clear to what extent it can be explained away in terms of normal or abnormal processes, or even in terms of paranormal processes among the living. Some of the so-called evidence scarcely makes sense even if one accepts the idea of postmortem survival. These are matters that Braude's book examines at length, and he still comes to the assessment that the best cases for mediumship, reincarnation, possession, and hauntings do better support the view that some aspects of our personality and personal consciousness survives the death of our bodies, at least for a time.

This book was a good book to read it makes you feel better about life and death. It doesn't matter if you don't belave in life after death, because when you read it the book makes you think, could there be a life when you die. The author has style in his wrighting and he explans lots of what he puts in the book. Dr. Moody says there are many things that people expernce one of them are death. in his book he says he knows people that have came back to life.

The things I like about this book is that it made me feel better. It made me look at death in a different way like I never wanted to die. I always though that everything was over and I would just be gone ,but now I think different about it and im ok about the whole thing of death. I think there is a God and we do get to see him in another life. He also has a gold book that says if we were nice or bad.
The author tells about when he was a yong kid he got to know a teacher when he was in college. This teacher had told about his near death experence, but Dr. Moody did not beleave in it then later on in his life he talked to more people that had experence the same thing. Thats when he started to want to know more about this near death stuff. I think don't think somethings not true just because you have not experence it your self. there are other people that have and could live to tell about it. Thats why I think this is a good book to read it could change your life or it could change what you think about death.

"Life After Life" is an extremely informative book which I've found matches nicely to my own personal view of the near death experience. I am grateful Dr. Moody shares this information.

While I personally prefer reading near death experience accounts written by actual experiencers (like myself) I can appreciate viewpoints coming from the researchers in the field.

Love,

David Oakford, Near Death Experiencer

I have read several books before regarding NDEs and the subject is always truly astounding. Moody gives examples from many different people who have experienced NDEs. This book makes a believer out of me that there is life after life on earth. Moody doesn't try to sell his viewpoint - he simply presents the facts as they were presented to him. He doesn't try to sell the phenomena as brains deprived of oxygen; he doesn't try to sell any scientific reasons as to what really happens. He lets the peoples stories speak for themselves. If you know someone who is a non-believer in the hereafter (and may be dying), this book should make them less afraid of death.

This was the first book, the one that started it all. An excellent read. Very enlighting.

A close relative of mine dearly died in a traffic crash and had an NDE. Reading this book gave her much needed comfort and understanding about her experience.

I know that most people (like me) who have never had an NDE, are curious about them. And this book satisfies that curiosity, at least partially.

But for those who have experienced them, a book like this provides much-needed comfort and understanding. This is partially due to the fact that it is difficult to talk about your own NDE with someone who doesn't understand them, or may even be skeptical. Nobody wants to be ridiculed, especially over an experience that you may consider to be sacred and very personal.

--George Stancliffe