Near-Death Experiences As Evidence For The Existence Of God And Heaven: A Brief Introduction In Plain Language - Plot & Excerpts
I began by reading Dr. Raymond Moody’s seminal 1975 study, Life After Life.(1) Moody studied medicine (Psychiatry), enabling him to evaluate scientific evidence for possible medical explanations of the phenomenon. Additionally, he held a Ph.D. in philosophy, which often helps researchers to more accurately evaluate hypotheses and to be more precise with their conclusions. I started with Moody because he was one of the earliest researchers to seriously study and popularize NDEs. Thus, it was highly unlikely that his subjects had read about NDEs or seen them discussed on TV. This could likely rule out the psychological explanation that people have these experiences because they’ve heard about them and thus expect to have them. Moody came from a nonreligious home, where his father, a surgeon, scoffed at religion as “institutionalized superstition.” It’s no wonder that Moody grew up thinking that death was the end of life.(2) But while studying philosophy at the University of Virginia, one of his professors mentioned Dr.
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