Dr. Raymond Moody Interview with Paul Perry

[brumby2012]

Words fail you in regards to (shared) death experience. Consider these words (ENERGY IS KINSHIP AND KINSHIP IS BLOOD) Example: If a man/wife (Devoted) are separated by war and the man is killed, the wife can know the exact moment of his death.

Man and wife on opposite sides of the table can finish each other sentences off.

If your child went missing, the police said there dead, yet they live, nothing will stop their parents. "Shared energy in Spirit Love & Truth to One Another is Binding".

[LovetoSki77]

My cat companion was put to sleep two and a half weeks ago, and my grief prompted me to go back and research an experience I had had during a time that my father passed on. Now I found this. I believe that when my father passed on, I went with him to a point, but couldnt pass through something. Several days later we found out he had had a heart attack while camping around the same time frame I had my experience, he had passed on several days before.

[squirrelly6886]

I just purchased this dvd and am sorely disappointed. As an atheist, which is a word actually used on the box, I require proof, not hordes of people who have the same story. If you are interested in what really happens during the process of death, read Susan Blackmore's neural-noise theory. There is also the "dying-brain theory." Moody's and Perry's "theories" are not theories--they are hypotheses. If people from different cultures have the same experiences, look at commonalities in the brain.

[Quickdraw1111]

@squirrelly6886 There are too many NDEs that are hard to explain. Check out the NDE of Anita Moorjani, and the NDE of Pam Reynolds -- just to name a couple. There are many more that are hard to explain, including NDEs of blind people. People try to explain such NDEs away with every possiblility under the sun instead of accepting the obvious.

[ChineseAtheist]

What has being blind to do with NDE? You know that blind people also have dreams, why should they not have NDEs?

NDE are also activities in the brain. It can even be caused artificially (drugs..). Btw. I quite often have Out-of-Body-Experiences... There is no mystery in it...

[BrianPSTJ]

@ChineseAtheist

It is not that they have NDE's that is so surpising, it is that they can actually see colors and images in these NDE's. In their dreams blind people do not see colors and images, but rather hear noises and feel emotions.

[ChineseAtheist]

You will be surprised: Some blind people also dream in colors! There have been some recent studies, that show that some blind people can draw exactly the shape of what they have seen and they reported some colours. (but these colours are not the correct one's, the brain seems to just add them)

Btw. many people claim that they have a 360° view in their dreams. So it is not the regular view

[BrianPSTJ]

@ChineseAtheist

Sorry, allow me to clarify: What I meant to say was a person who was BORN blind is unable to dream in colors. If they lost their sight later in their lives then they are able to dream in colors and shapes. Could you link that study? It sounds interesting.

[Quickdraw1111]

@ChineseAtheist Do a internet search for "Do blind people dream?" Here is what I found (I will copy and paste here): "Yes, blind people do have dreams. However, those blind since birth or very early childhood have no visual imagery in their dreams. Instead, they experience a very high percentage of taste, smell, and touch sensations in their dreams."

So, those blind from birth have no visual imagery in their dreams. Those blind a few years AFTER birth can have visual imagery in their dreams.

[ChineseAtheist]

Yes, I know that science promoted this and that many people still believe that, but it is false. Not all, but some people, who have been blind since birth, indeed do have visual images.

The brain does not need visual stimulus in order to devolp the cortical regions that process vision. The optical cortex sometimes even functions if a person is born blind. There have been recent studies on the issue.

[BrianPSTJ]

@ChineseAtheist

You dont under stand.

The breakdown is as follows:

There are no visual images in the dreams of those born without any ability to experience visual imagery in waking life.

Individuals who become blind before the age of five seldom experience visual imagery in their dreams.

Those who become sightless between the ages of five and seven may or may not retain some visual imagery.

[BrianPSTJ]

@ChineseAtheist

And do you have any evidence of thus? Link the studies you are referring too.

[BrianPSTJ]

@ChineseAtheist

Could you also describe your out of body experinces? That would be good.

Also, causing NDE's using drugs is only proving them to be real experiences using the scientific method. You should also be aware that the only drug that causes genuine NDE's is Ketamine, which blocks neural receptors in the brain. This actually is used as a euthanasia, so one could assume it would bring users into a kind of NDE state.

[ChineseAtheist]

I practice mediation and there are some methods, where you close your eyes, feel paralyzed, and then try to float away. You forget that you belong to your body, seperate, float and sometimes autoscopy happened. "Losing contact with sensory input from the body" clearly is the first step and I can see how this is also true for NDEs.

[Quickdraw1111]

@squirrelly6886 And in regards to Susan Blackmore, do a internet search for "Susan Blackmore debunked" and you will how shaky her arguments against NDEs really are.

[ChineseAtheist]

Yes, I agree. It is a spiritual-mythological way of speaking, which has nothing to do with modern, scientific methods. The old generation like mysteries, they don't want to study the brain, but are susceptical to religion.

Personally I think, that the brain often has problems: Autoscopic experiences, dissoziation, dreams that cannot be left...all these things happen....but then human beings looked for explainations and found easy answers in concepts like rebirth/heaven.. The future is neurology

[demco27]

Όλα αυτά συμβαίνουν μόνο σε Aμερικάνους. Τυχαίο; Δε νομίζω.

[carusso50]

I would like to share my entire story of how He raised me from the dead but this medium doesn't allow me but a few characters and I need more to tell my story. If you will please email me at carusso50@aol.com and I will be more than happy to share my story in its entirety. Suffice it to say that Jesus is indeed Alive and Well and doing the same today that the Bible records Him doing 2000 years ago. He is Healing us from our sinful ways and restoring us to life.

In God I Trust,

Chris Russell

[carusso50]

I had an nde in 2000 following a surgical procedure at Brody School of Medicine. What is a little different w/ my nde but certainly not unique is that I had a face-to-Face encounter with Jesus the Chris in which He reached out and touched me and instantaneously cured me from stage IV non-small cell lung cancer. This is after the oncologists from Duke had refused to treat me surgically saying that I was going to die and that there wasn't anything anybody could do about it. They were wrong...

[chelojelo]

@carusso50

This is very interesting to me b/c my mom just died from the same thing. She only lived 4 months after she got her diagnosis. Would you mind sharing where yours had spread to by the time u were cured? (hers spread to her spine and her brain) Thanks.

[carusso50]

I had an nde in 2000 following a surgical procedure at Brody School of Medicine. What is a little different w/ my nde but certainly not unique is that I had a face-to-Face encounter with Jesus the Chris in which He reached out and touched me and instantaneously cured me from stage IV non-small cell lung cancer. This is after the oncologists from Duke had refused to treat me surgically saying that I was going to die and that there wasn't anything anybody could do about it.

[PineAppleEx420]

now this is interesting, i have never heard of a shared death experience before.

[beshoysouliman]

thats fantastic. i love it :)

[dtr3os]

does anyone know where i can find his movie afterlife? i really want to see it but dont want to pay 20 bucks for the DVD

[catandpiddle]

this has helped me a lot, thank you

[Pinckney12]

To clarify: None of the doctors or nurses could get a response and all the signs said there was no brain activity. They were mystified that when I talked to her and lightly squeezed her hand she would roll her shoulder and try to move her hand. Either way she didn't make it and Hearing stories about NDEs help me feel happy for her.

[Pinckney12]

My little sister was on life support and in a coma last year. As soon as I saw her I could tell she was in there. Everytime I took her hand and squeezed it she pulled it away.

A week later when they were going to take her off life support I went in the room to kiss her goodbye and immediately knew she was no longer in her body. I can't explain it but it was as clear as if you saw someone snoring with their eyes closed. You would say they're sleeping. It was that obvious.

[ANA1961maria]

Me encantaría poder conseguir este testimonio del Dr. Raymond Moody, con sub en español como los otros. Hay algún sitio donde pueda dirigirme.

Muchas gracias

[acidsunrise]

There is nothing irrational about belief in the survival of the self after death-the real irrationality comes from the belief that if it isnt unpleasant and masochistic then it isnt scientific.

[gogoasacenusie]

I'm looking forward to a more open minded perspective of the scientific community regarding this issue. The materialistic conception of the universe is incomplete, consciousness must have an important role, maybe as a fundamental property of the universe itself

[Niknac2222]

Dear Dr. Moody,

The night that my mom passed away, I was standing in my bedroom, not anywhere near my mother who was in a board and care.  The hallway light was reflected on my bedroom door and no one was in the hallway. I glanced up at the door and suddenly an "apparition" of sorts appeared. I saw a jet of black, like the ink from a squid, dart across the bedroom door and I suddenly understood that my mother was going to die. I knew that this strange visit was part of my premonition.

[captbanjo1]

Dr. Moody changed my life. In 1972 I had a NDE but at that time there was no literature available to put the experience into perspective. Two years later I saw the doctor on TV talking about a book of experiences of people who died and returned. Finally, I get to read other's NDEs and realized there were many of us, I was not alone. Since then we've been able to read thousands of these accounts. Thanks Dr. Moody!

[mfcfs]

@captbanjo1There really are many of us...all over the world (me in Portugal for example)... DrModdy's help me truly, as when I had mine, I thought I could be loosing my mind...but on the otherhand I was to clear of ideas after coming back, that I knew it was 100% reality !!

[catandpiddle]

@captbanjo1 interesting ... thank you for sharing.