Life After Life is a 1975 book written by psychiatrist

Psychiatrist

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 Raymond Moody

Raymond Moody

Raymond Moody is a psychologist and medical doctor. He is most famous as an author of books about life after death and near-death experiences , a term that he coined in 1975. His best-selling title is Life After Life.-Life:...

. It is a report on a qualitative study in which Moody interviewed 150 people who had undergone near-death experiences (NDEs). The book presents the author's composite account of what it is like to die. On the basis of his collection of cases, Moody identified a common set of elements in NDEs:

• (a) an overwhelming feeling of peace and well-being, including freedom from pain.
• (b) the impression of being located outside one's physical body.
• (c) floating or drifting through darkness, sometimes described as a tunnel.
• (d) becoming aware of a golden light.
• (e) encountering and perhaps communicating with a "being of light".
• (f) having a rapid succession of visual images of one's past.
• (g) experiencing another world of much beauty.

Life After Life sold more than 13 million copies, was translated into a dozen foreign languages and became an international best seller, which made the subject of NDEs popular and opened the way for many other studies

Near-death studies

Near-death studies is a school of psychology and psychiatry that studies the phenomenology and after-effects of a Near-death experience .-NDE :...

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Moody wrote a second book, Reflections on Life After Life (ISBN 0817714233), in 1977.