Raymond Moody
Oct 3, 2016 18:44:03 GMT
Post by Admin on Oct 3, 2016 18:44:03 GMT
One of the founding members of the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS). His book Life After Life first coined the term Near-Death Experience.
iands.org/about/about-iands27/history/the-founding-of-iands-raymond-moody.html
Books:
www.amazon.com/Raymond-A.-Moody/e/B000APO81M
Articles:
www.newdualism.org/nde-papers/Moody/Moody-Journal%20of%20Near-Death%20Studies_1992-11-83-121.pdf
iands.org/about/about-iands27/history/the-founding-of-iands-raymond-moody.html
To me the most fascinating aspect of these experiences is their potential bearing on the biggest question of human existence: Is there an afterlife? I was not exposed to religion as a child, and the first I ever thought about life after death was in reading Plato as a first-year college student. As I said at the beginning of Life After Life, my background interests were in logic, philosophy of language, and ancient Greek philosophy. I also emphasized near the beginning that I was primarily discussing narratives, or verbal accounts. And I emphasized that these narratives were not "evidence," especially not "scientific" evidence of an afterlife. Regrettably, all those vital facts got overlooked in the enormous wave of popular and professional interest in these experiences that swept the world after Life After Life was published in 1975. The afterlife remains the most important philosophical question. But it is not yet a scientific question. I have kept insisting on this, because it is a truly crucial point. Thus far, the question of an afterlife is still a conceptual question. That is, it requires logical reasoning about concepts, not scientific methods. I believe that people will be waking up to this pretty soon and it will transform the landscape of rational study of life after death.
Books:
www.amazon.com/Raymond-A.-Moody/e/B000APO81M
Articles:
www.newdualism.org/nde-papers/Moody/Moody-Journal%20of%20Near-Death%20Studies_1992-11-83-121.pdf