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Raymond Moody

(1944) Physician United States

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Raymond Moody is a physician from the United States, best known for Burford, the Civil War and the Levellers.

Quick Facts About Raymond Moody

Born: June 30, 1944
Nationality: United States
Profession: Physician
Notable works: Burford, the Civil War and the Levellers

About Raymond Moody

Raymond A. Moody Jr. is an American philosopher, psychiatrist, physician, and author, most widely known for his books about afterlife and near-death experiences (NDE), a term that he coined in 1975 in his best-selling book Life After Life. His research explores personal accounts of subjective phenomena encountered in near-death experiences, particularly those of people who have apparently died but been resuscitated. He has widely published his views on what he terms near-death-experience psychology.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Boulder Prize

Quotes by Raymond Moody

I felt the question of the afterlife was the black hole of the personal universe: something for which substantial proof of existence…

Afterlife

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No doubt many people have the feeling that to talk about death at all is, in effect, to conjure it up mentally,…

About

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I have absolutely no fear of death. From my near-death research and my personal experiences, death is, in my judgment, simply a…

Alternate realities

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I'm not afraid of death at all.

Afraid

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A sense of humor has been linked with longevity. It is a possibility that the mental attitude reflected in a lively sense…

Attitude

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What do I think happens when we die? I think we enter into another stage of existence or another state of consciousness…

Adequate

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The subject of death is taboo. We feel, perhaps only subconsciously, that to be in contact with death in any way, even…

Any

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I have never been religious. I talk to God every day, but He's never said a word to me about religion! I…

About

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If you present your dog to a veterinarian with the instruction to put him to sleep, you would normally mean something very…

Different

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The dying often have the sensation of rising up and floating above their own body while it is surrounded by a medical…

Body

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I was reading Plato's 'The Republic' at age 18, and I can't account fully the electricity that had for me.

Account

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Very often, (in near-death experiences) the person encounters a divine or angelic being. This may be described as Christ, an angel, even…

Angel

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People into hard sciences, neurophysiology, often ignore a core philosophical question: 'What is the relationship between our unique, inner experience of conscious…

Answer

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Dying, we tell ourselves, is like going to sleep. This figure of speech occurs very commonly in everyday thought and language, as…

Ages

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“In the sciences...if anyone advances anything new...people resist with all their might; they speak of the new view with contempt, as if…

Goethe

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