Glimpses of Eternity: An Investigation Into Shared Death Experiences

by Dr. Raymond Moody

Raymond Moody is an American philosopher, psychiatrist, physician and author, most widely known for his books about afterlife and near-death experiences, a term that he coined in 1975 in his multimillion best-seller, Life After Life.

His book, Glimpses of Eternity, published in 2010 revealed surprising new results from his lifelong investigation of what happens when we die. His first book, Life After Life, tells stories of people who died and then returned to life. These are typically known as NDEs or Near Death Experiences. Since publication in 1975, hundreds of thousands of people contacted Dr. Moody to share their own experiences. After awhile Dr. Moody discovered a startling new pattern emerging in that at the time of death, some loved ones had inexplicable experiences, a phenomenon which came to be known as the Shared Death Experience or SDE.

Glimpses of Eternity is the first book to discuss the Shared Death Experience. In this book you will discover deathbed moments when entire families see the light or the room changes shape. Some even tell of seeing a film-like review of a loved one's life and learning things that they could never have known otherwise. The stories are at once a comfort and a mystery, giving us a new understanding of the journey that we will take at the end of our lives.

When Dr. Moody wrote Life After Life, which was the first systematic analysis of the Near Death Experience, the book, drew much controversy. Although there was a large share of 'true believers' who felt that NDEs were evidence of an afterlife, skeptics dismissed them as hallucinations caused by a dying brain. Unlike the NDEs described in Life After Life, shared NDEs cannot merely be dismissed as hallucinations caused by a dying brain, because the participants are obviously living and healthy, so those arguments simply do not hold up!

Dr. Moody admits that there are many unanswered questions about NDEs, both shared and non-shared. Why don't they happen all the time? What exactly do they tell us about the afterlife? What kind of people are more likely to have them? Moody says that good science raises more questions than it answers, but he suspects we will make steady progress towards answering these questions as more research is done. Dr. Moody is not the only researcher documenting NDEs; he cites others who have reached similar conclusions, including his co-author Paul Perry and the researcher of deathbed experiences Peter Fenwick.

This book is filled with compelling stories of people who have shared the experience of death while not dying themselves. There are descriptions of people leaving their bodies and following the dead up tunnels into heavenly realms. There are also stories of deathbed visions and indications that when dying people speak to invisible people in the room they are actually communicating with deceased relatives and friends.

Dr. Moody explains why the experiences are not hallucinations or the result of a lack of oxygen. The people who have shared death experiences all seem to be quite alive and well. What they see is a radiant light, heavenly places and beings of light. This can sometimes also promote a transformation in the human psyche as some participants are no longer afraid of death once they've had the experience.

As proven in Dr. Moody’s research, at the time of a person’s death, it seems that a window to another plane of existence is opened. This, in my opinion, is the same window that is opened to those who wait at the bedside of their dying loved ones. It is only our Earth-bound, materially focused mind that is caught or stuck in the dense world. Who we really are senses the truth of spirit and Dr. Moody's findings will bring comfort to those who know how to operate in the finer realities of life. This is an inspiring read.

SDEs present the most compelling evidence of all that when we die, that's when the good stuff begins. This book is comforting to those with hunches that there's much more life after this life ends. And it's also exciting in that such seemingly supernatural events occur between humans at the point of one of their deaths. It will be disappointing if this doesn't cause at least a few die-hard materialists to reconsider… just this once. Find the book on Amazon – Here.