Shared Death Experiences :
Dr Raymond Moody
IANDS 2011 Conference, Sept. 2-4 2011
Dr Raymond Moody
IANDS 2011 Conference, Sept. 2-4 2011
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Dr Raymond Moody - Shared Death Experiences
Credit: International Association for Near-Death Experiences
Uploaded by IANDSvideos on 9 Sep 2011 Raymond Moody -- web site http://lifeafterlife.com Presented at the IANDS 2011 Conference, September 2-4 2011, in Durham, North Carolina, USA Excerpt describing the shared death experience. Abstract: This lecture presents a phenomenology of shared death experiences demonstrating an uninterrupted continuum with near-death experiences. The identity in content between these two modes of experience poses a major difficulty for popular neurophysiological explanations. An entirely new means of rational investigation is briefly described that accesses the transcendent aspect of experiences related to death and dying. For more information on near-death experiences and shared death experiences, visit http://iands.org Beyond Goodbye - Shared Death Experience
(Part 1 of 2 Parts) Beyond Goodbye - Shared Death Experience (Part 2 of 2 Parts) Uploaded by anniecap1111 on 17 Nov 2011
Live interview of Annie Cap, author of 'Beyond Goodbye: An extraordinary true story of a shared death experience' by Hannah Murrah of Talk Radio Europe. Annie miraculously felt her mother's dying symptoms while on another continent and then experienced after-death communications a week later. Unknowingly having shared in her mother's passing in this way caused Annie to have almost all the after-effects of someone who themselves dies as in a near-death experience. Annie's experiences (some seemingly paranormal or heavenly including telekinesis, apporting, seeing an angel, visitations of deceased relatives, ghosts, guides) and other quizzical after-effects led her on a journey of investigation interviewing world experts in deathbed coincidences, near-death experiences and after-death communications. Book by Annie Cap available in print and on Kindle: 'Beyond Goodbye: An extraordinary true story of a shared death experience' |
Another phenomenon related to NDEs is shared death experiences, in which a person close to a dying person experiences something with the same characteristics as NDEs.
Moody first heard about shared death experiences in 1972 from a medical professor of his. The professor’s mother had a cardiac attack, and when she was trying to resuscitate her mother, she felt herself leaving her body and saw her body resuscitating her mother. As her mother died, she saw her mother in spirit form, and the spirit met some beings, some of whom she could recognize as people whom her mother had known. Then, her mother and the other people were sucked into a tunnel. After over 30 years of research, Moody estimates that shared death experiences are as common as NDEs. As he studied more of these cases over the years, he found that the features of shared death experiences are similar to those of NDEs. One of the most common features of shared death experiences is that the shared death experiencer sees the spirit of the dying person, which appears as a transparent replica of the person, or an oval or sphere of light leaving from the head or chest of the dying person’s physical body, Moody told The Epoch Times in an interview. Sometimes, the bystander would also experience the life review of the dying person. A woman in Georgia was documented as having talked with her husband’s spirit as she saw his life review when he was dying, and she also saw a being that identified herself as the miscarried daughter she and her husband had lost. Moody thinks that shared death experiences act as strong evidence for the view that the mind exists independently of the brain, because the people experiencing them are in no way having impaired brain functions at the time. “All of the features that I identify as the initial near-death experiences that I studied years ago are also present in people who have these experiences at the bedside, who incidentally are not ill or injured”, Moody said during his presentation at the conference. “There’s nothing wrong with the oxygen flow to their brains, and yet they have identically the same experiences that I hear from people who did come close to death.” Even stronger evidence, as Moody recounted during the interview with The Epoch Times, was the case of a priest and a nun in South Africa who had a car accident together and who both had cardiac arrest followed by an NDE. After they were resuscitated, both recounted the experience of leaving their bodies and going into a light together with identical details. With the amount of research over the past 30 years, Moody said that “there has now been a genuine—and I would underline ‘genuine’—solid step toward rational comprehension of the afterlife.” Similarly, Greyson said, “The science of near-death experiences is much further advanced now than it was 30 years ago.” However, Greyson thinks that there is still more to do in the area of near-death studies, especially with the modern tools and techniques that we didn’t have before, and he expects that in the future, we will learn more about the causes of NDE. "Sooner or later we will find a way in scientific terms to talk about something beyond the physical or psychological. I think we have just scratched the surface of the NDE. Some people with a religious or spiritual background will talk about the experience being given to us as a gift or coming from some supernatural cause, and I don’t know how to express that concept in scientific terms yet. But I think that science is a dynamic enterprise, not a static one, and I think sooner or later we will find a way in scientific terms to talk about something beyond the physical or psychological that is ordered in a way that we demand scientific concepts will be. I think the major advances in the future will be along the lines of what role the NDE plays in people’s lives and personality development, and establishing values and beliefs and attitudes and different ways we can help people benefit from the near-death experience.” http://beforeitsnews.com/story/1796/644/Near_Death_Experiences_-_The_Secret_Knowledge_Revealed_Part_1.html Background: Dr. Raymond Moody, NDEs and SDEs
Raymond Moody and Elizabeth Kübler-Ross in the 1970s revealed to the world the reality of the Near Death Experience (NDE). In fact, it was Dr. Moody who first coined the term ‘Near Death Experience’. In his first book on the subject of NDEs, 'Life after life' (1975), Moody showed how people all over the world had ‘died’ and come back to tell of strange ethereal worlds, beings of light, conversations with deceased loved ones, life reviews and feelings of all-encompassing love. The book was well received but the scientific community did not welcome it with open arms since these experiences could not be replicated in any kind of laboratory environment. During the 1980s, Moody began to hear stories of shared death experiences. From then until now, he collected these experiences and added to these some accounts that he unearthed from the last couple of hundred years to form the bulk of the new book. Seeing these stories side-by-side, one is able to see the commonality of the elements with each other and stories from NDEs. Moody also includes some of the most often asked questions from his seminars and meetings:
Towards the end of the book, Moody discusses the latest scientific study by Jeffrey Long of NDERF that details nine lines of evidence that prove the existence of the afterlife (see Long’s book on the subject 'Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences'). |