


I don't mind saying that after talking with over a thousand people who have had these experiences, and having experienced many times some of the really baffling and unusual features of these experiences, it has given me great confidence that there is a life after death. In an interview with Jeffrey Mishlove, Moody shared his personal conclusions about his research into near-death experiences: In 1975, Moody published many of these experiences in his book, Life After Life, in which he coined the term "near-death experience." Moody began documenting similar accounts by other people who had experienced clinical death and discovered that many of these experienced shared common features, such as the feeling of being out of one’s body, the sensation of traveling through a tunnel, encountering dead relatives, and encountering a bright light. George Ritchie, who told Moody about an incident in which he believed he had journeyed into the afterlife while dead for nearly nine minutes at the age of 20 (which Ritchie would later recount in his book, Return From Tomorrow, published in 1978). While an undergraduate at the University of Virginia in 1965, Moody encountered psychiatrist, Dr. In 1998, Moody was appointed Chair in Consciousness Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Career Early career Īfter obtaining his M.D., Moody worked as a forensic psychiatrist in a maximum-security Georgia state hospital.

He also obtained a PhD in psychology from the University of West Georgia, then known as West Georgia College, where he later became a professor in the topic. (1967) and a PhD (1969) in philosophy from the University of Virginia. Moody was born in Porterdale, Georgia, the son of an agnostic surgeon. 3 Criticism of Moody's near-death research.
