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By Stephen J. Valk
"I had a floating sensation as I felt myself get out of
my body, and I looked back and I could see myself on
the bed below and there was no fear. It was quietvery
peaceful and serene."
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have died clinically or have come close to death and
been resuscitated. Their observations are the topic of
a book, Life after Life, by Raymond A. Moody Jr.,
who spoke at USC Monday.
I'm not trying to prove there is life after death," he
said. "I realize that it's an anecdotal thine rathpr
than a truly scientific thing." He said all he could do
is report what other people have told him about their
experiences.
Moody said about 15 elements appeared to be
common and occurred over and over again among
me idu persons ne talked to in his research. In his
book. Moody combines these elements and draws a
composite picture of what it is like to die.
"He hears himself pronounced dead by his doctor.
He begins to hear an uncomfortable noise and at the
same time feels himself moving very rapidly through
a long dark tunnel. After this, he suddenly finds
himself outside of his own physical body, but still in
the immediate physical environment and ?iic
own body from a distance, as though a spectator.
"He notices that he still has a body, but one of a
very different nature and with very different powers
from the physical body he has left behind. Others
come to meet and to help him. He glimpses the spirits
of a kind he has never encountered before-a being of
light-appears before him.
"This being asks him nonverbally to evaluate his life
and helps him along by showing him a panoramic,
instantaneous playback of the major events of his
life.
"At some point he finds himself approaching some
sort of barrier or border, apparently representing the
limit between earthly life and the next life. Yet he
finds he must go back to earth. At this point he
resists, for by now he is taken up with his experiences
in the afterlife and does not want to return.
"Later he tries to tell others, but has trouble doing
so. In the first place, he can find no human words
adequate to describe these unearthly episodes. The
experience affects his life profoundly, especially his
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A psychiatrist who also holds a Master's degree in
philosophy, Moody said the most common statement
he heard from persons who had gone through this was
that no words are adequate to describe the experience.
"They just don't make adiectives and
superlatives to describe this sort of thing," one informant
told him.
In describing the "being of light," many poeple
identified the light with their own particular
regligious experience, he said. Christians u/nnW coo
the light as being Christ, and several of these said
certain Bible passages came to mind such as "I am
the Light."
jews said tney thought it was an angel, and atheists
saw it only as a being of light. In saying this, however,
people said what they actually saw was only a light,
inn tney interpreted it as being different things.
Moody said.
"The being asks people to look back over their lives
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said. "There's a great deal of judgment going on. but
it comes from within." He said most persons said it
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"People with whom I've talked aren't afraid of
death anymore. They don't regard death as
oblivion." Moody said people do not particularly want
to die because of the experience, but that it affected
their attitudes about living and the purpose of life
"They saw a review of their life and that they
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he said. "As one person put it. 'I've got a lot of
changing to do before I leave here.' "
Moody said he encourages persons to think of
alternative explanations to what these persons said
they experienced, because only through proving or
disproving that mankind will be able to draw mn.
elusions about death.
Discussing his own personal reflections, Moody
said, "I don't want lo be regarded as a guru or
messenger from beyond. I think the guru role is a
very depressing one." He said he firmly believes now
that there is an afterlife, and "now that I hi?ve
resolved the question 1 want to go on living as tree
from that question as possible."
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