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

Classic

This book remains the best of the best for near death studies. Moody did an excellent job collecting accounts and writing it.

I thought the narrator was just fine!! Great book!

Don't listen to any negative reviews.. After hearing this book referred to so many times in other NDE books, I had to finally listen to this classic, and I thought the narrator did just fine compared to many I've heard. What a wonderful original collection of NDE's!

Best NDA Research!

Dr. Moody has scientifically researched this topic over decades and presented his findings clearly. I highly recommend his book!

Trailblazer

Dr. Moody and colleagues set the trend for the 21st century authors on NDE’s, Past Life Regressions, and such. Impressive.

this book is a balm for the souls of grieving people

I love Dr Moody. He presents his findings, without making crazy assumptions like most do. He doesn't claim to know anything for sure, he just presents his stories so that the reader can see the possibilities. thank you for all your work! it means the world to me, that there's a possibility of a beautiful afterlife where we can be with our loved ones and Remember.

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

Another Abridged book?

The narrator really makes or breaks a story. He read without too much emotion, more like deadpan. Raymond Moody IS FANTASTIC!

I love the narrator! I love this book

I believe every person should read this book! I’ve listened to this book over and over! I love going to bed and putting this book on and listening to it as I drift to sleep. The narrator is perfect! I’d like to listen to him narrate other books.

Moody is always good

Moody knows his stuff and he does his homework. This book will make you a better person.