Life after Life

The Investigation of a Phenomenon - Survival of Bodily Death

By: Raymond A. Moody Jr.

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins

Publisher's summary

In Life after Life, Raymond Moody investigates more than 100 case studies of people who experienced "clinical death" and were subsequently revived. First published in 1975, this classic exploration of life after death started a revolution in popular attitudes about the afterlife and established Dr. Moody as the world's leading authority in the field of near-death experiences.

Life after Life sold millions of copies and forever changed the way we understand both death and life. The extraordinary stories presented here provide evidence that there is life after physical death, as Moody recounts the testimonies of those who have been to the "other side" and back, all bearing striking similarities. These moving and inspiring accounts give us a glimpse of the peace and unconditional love that await us all.

©1975, 2001 Raymond A. Moody, Jr., M.D. (P)2011 Tantor

Exceptional Read

I loved this book. The author was very knowledgeable on the subject and gave very interesting information. I look forward to ccx reading more of his books. The narrator had a very pleasing voice.

a classic!

this was the original book written on near-death experiences and if you're interested in the subject this is a must-read just to get the initial ideas that Raymond Moody had about the subject I highly recommend it.

Interesting Book

The book presents theory and case studies arpund an interesting topic. The cases are intriguing to hear regardless of personal belief in the theory as being truthful or not.

Short but good. I adjusted the speed to 1.65.

Good read but short, now to should read, The DMT Molecule by Strassman. increase the speed to 1.65 and thank me later.

Must read

What an eye opening experience.... grateful for this book. I. now have sense of peace

Thorough documentation of testimonies

The author tells in detail about similarities and differences in NDE testimonies. Sometimes this book seemed technical but overall it is thorough look into what a typical experience is like beyond our bodily existence.

Very good read about the idea of life after death

This is a very good introduction to the theory of consciousness continuing after the body dies.

great compilation

the author is genuine and straightforward and the subject material is so interesting and inspiring

Interesting book on the Near Death Experience

Any additional comments?

Having read "Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences,"by Jeffrey Long and Paul Perry, before "Life After Life," at first I thought Dr. Moody's book was like reading something I had already read before. Not bad, but not anything new. I was pleasantly surprised, however, when it went off in a few unexpected directions.

"Life After Life," like "Evidence of the Afterlife," attempts to put together some rudimentary statistics and find common elements of NDEs (Near Death Experiences). I say rudimentary, because Dr. Moody says the number of cases he compiled is not high enough for deep statistical analysis. This is in contrast to "Evidence of the Afterlife," which compiled a large number of cases from all over the world through use of the Internet.

It should be noted that with "Life After Life" being published long before "Evidence of the Afterlife," the cases compiled by the Near Death Experience Research Foundation (NDERF) are almost identical, making the two books very complimentary to each other.

Where "Life After Life," shined, however, was a section on comparing modern NDEs to some ancient texts. Among those texts were, The Bible, selected writings of Plato, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, and Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish philosopher and scientist from the late 1600s who also wrote about the subject of the afterlife.

Of those texts mentioned, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, in my opinion, read so much like an NDE that one could attribute parts of it to someone that had nearly died during a car wreck in 1992, and it would hardly raise an eyebrow among those familiar with NDE experiences. Once again, showing that the ancients had a higher degree of knowledge and wisdom than we care to give them credit for.

A few other topics were also discussed that were not included in "Evidence of the Afterlife." One was on hallucinatory drugs, such as peyote. Missing from the discussion, however, was DMT, often described as the spirit molecule. While interesting, this discussion was short and on the lite side.

The other topic that was more interesting to me was a somewhat more in-depth look at NDEs of people who had committed suicide. These were pretty uniformly described as being negative experiences for the person who took their life, but ended up surviving the event. This differs from "Evidence of the Afterlife," because it contained very few, if any, negative NDEs that I can recall.

All in all, I am not disappointed in "Life After Life." The biggest knock against it is that, by luck of the draw, I had previously read a very similar book. However, it should be noted that in the 30-plus years of data collected between the two books, very similar in this case, is really astonishing. Then throw in the similarities of ancient texts, and one understands that this is a phenomena that dates back to the beginnings of recorded history. One could also speculate that it goes back well before recorded history, as well.

Ignore the reviews

Read it for your self and form your own conclusions. I almost didn’t purchase this because of negative reviews. But now I’m glad I did