![]() Talking with a wide variety of people he found that all the stories were consistent in certain areas. ![]() Moody was so struck by Ritchie’s story that he decided to seek out other such stories. ![]() Ritchie had been pronounced dead in Abilene, Texas, in 1943, but had returned to consciousness and was able to relate a variety of experiences while in the “death” state. George Ritchie the story of Ritchie’s apparent death and then return to life. Moody was a young philosophy student when he heard from Dr. Moody observed that in Plato’s work there is a scene called “The Myth of Urr,” which is the story of a soldier who returns from the dead with stories remarkably similar to those told by people who have undergone the near death experience. He identified such main components of NDE as a sense of being dead, peace and painlessness, an out of body experience (OBE), a journey down a tunnel toward a light, meeting deceased loved ones, meeting an ultimate being of light, going through a life review, and not wanting to return from the dead but doing so. His book gave respectability to what previously had been nothing but anecdotes. Raymond Moody coined the term “near death experience,” or NDE, in his 1975 book Life after Life. 1944) (religion, spiritualism, and occult)ĭr. Raymond Moody pioneered the investigation and research near death experiences.
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