life after life movie raymond moody summary

He recounts his childhood growing up in a household that was scientific, not spiritual, and how that impacted his first encounters with near-death experiencers. So what does Greyson have to say about near-death experiences? After is as much about Greyson’s own journey of discovery as it is about near-death experiences themselves…but the genius of this approach is that his journey is the journey we must all take when trying to understand the phenomenon. And that means too that he’s not here to make you feel warm and fuzzy about your particular beliefs: “In following the scientific evidence that has accumulated over the past several decades, and not promoting any one theory or belief system,” he notes at the start of the book, “I know I will disappoint many of my friends who may favor one or another particular view… intellectual honesty demands that I avoid taking sides in this debate.”

TLDR: this is a guy who cares deeply about his research, and the human experiencers he studies, and isn’t out to make a quick buck. This is no doubt partly down to his personality type (in the Acknowledgements he offers thanks to an individual for helping him to “understand my introvert’s reluctance to expose myself in writing”), but it also speaks to his devotion to the integrity and importance of his work – while he might have now only authored one book, he has published more than one hundred papers in medical journals, co-founded the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS), and for 27 years edited the Journal of Near-Death Studies. (He has co-authored/contributed to some other books, such as Irreducible Mind). Intimately involved in research into near-death experiences (NDEs) since the late 1970s, it’s only just this month that Greyson has released his first solo book on the topic, After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Life and Beyond, at the age of 74.

– and then there is another group of researchers that rather quietly mine the coalface and avoid the spotlight…and often produce far more important work than the former group.ĭr Bruce Greyson is a member of the latter group. In fields of research devoted to unexplained phenomena, there are the researchers that everyone knows – because they get their face regularly on TV, write books, promote themselves on social media etc.

Life after life movie raymond moody summary