Moody believes NDEs are evidence for an afterlife but Carroll states they can be explained by neurochemistry and are the result of a "dying, demented or drugged brain. Carroll writes that what Moody describes as a typical NDE may be due to brain states triggered by cardiac arrest and anesthesia. The philosopher Robert Todd Carroll has written that a characteristic of Moody's work is the omission of cases that do not fit his hypothesis, confirming the aspect of cherry picking. There also is the question of interpreting such data as has been published assuming that the factual matter is objectively correct according to Kurtz, "there is no reliable evidence that people who report such experiences have died and returned, or that consciousness exists separate from the brain or body. The philosopher Paul Kurtz has written that Moody's evidence for the NDE is based on personal interviews and anecdotal accounts and there has been no statistical analysis of his data.
Terence Hines commented "such reports are hardly sufficient to argue for the reality of an afterlife. Moody has been described as a "strong personal believer" in the paranormal. Moody has also researched past life regression and believes that he personally has had nine past lives.īarry Beyerstein, a professor of psychology, has written that Moody's alleged evidence for an afterlife is flawed, both logically and empirically. By staring into a mirror in a dimly lit room, Moody claims that people are able to summon visions of spiritual apparitions see mirror gazing. Inspired by the Greek psychomanteums where the ancient Greeks would go to consult the apparitions of the dead which Moody had read about in classic Greek texts that he encountered while a student at the University of Virginia, Moody built a psychomanteum in Alabama, which he calls the Dr. 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.Īs a matter of fact, I must confess to you in all honesty, I have absolutely no doubt, on the basis of what my patients have told me, that they did get a glimpse of the beyond.
In an interview with Jeffrey Mishlove, Moody shared his personal conclusions about his research into near-death experiences. 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 In, Moody published many of these experiences in his book, Life After Life, in which he coined the term "near-death experience. While an undergraduate at the University of Virginia in, Moody encountered psychiatrist, Dr.
Moody taught his last class at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, within the Corcoran Department of Philosophy, a course entitled Thanatology. In spring prior to moving to Georgia, Dr. Moody occasionally taught courses at the University of Virginia as adjunct faculty. 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.
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