Life after Life - Best of Coast to Coast AM - 9/11/23

out that what really triggered this book. I mean, we've been collecting and shared death experiences for years, but what really triggered it was that both Raymond and I had a shared death experience.

mother had Alzheimer's and she was dying from Alzheimer's. And one day I got a call from Vernon Neppie and Vernon said, said, you know, I was sitting here. It was on a Sunday, he said, I was sitting here reading the paper and I heard a female voice say, call Paul Perry, and I ignored it. And about an hour later, I was into the sports section and I heard a female voice again say call Paul Perry. So that's what I'm doing. I'm calling you and I don't

know why. And I said, well, my mother's dying from Alzheimer's. And he was really the perfect person to talk about that because he was a neuropharmacologist so we spent quite a bit of time talking about different tears that he had attempted. He had attempted on people who had Alzheimer's. And in the course of had that conversation, this was before iPhones, there was that buzzing, you know, on the line, telling me that someone was trying to give me a call.

So I said, Verne, I'll call you back later. I answered that phone and it was the care facility telling that my mother had died. And that fit very well into the category of a shared death experience, because somehow my mother, I think, had contacted Vernon and when it felt that Vernon was the perfect person to talk about what was going on with her, and that's how this conversation ensued.

were in a kind of double funnel. And light of this, a very unusual character filled the room, and it was full of energy. It wasn't it wasn't like vertigo was things spinning around, but there was energy there that seemed to be revving up. And my mother had been for several days of pundit. We weren't getting anything from us. But just as she was passing away, she rallied and I heard her voice twice say I love you, But George.

The voice I didn't hear it through my ears, I know, but it was very insistent, and twice I heard her, but it wasn't coming from her voice, but I heard her. Meanwhile, my sister felt the presence of my father, who had died eighteen months ago, eighteen months before. My wife experienced something. My brother in law felt things. And you know, as you know, I'm driven in my life by curiosity, and

sure what that happened. We were kind of ready to do that book, but when it happened to me, it put me off on another I was trying to process my own experience rather than to learn about others. But after a while that settled down and we got busy on it, and we went ahead and finished the book.

in the hospital waiting room. For instance, They're able to convey accurate information about what the doctors were doing and what they were saying, and the instruments they were using. That's a shared death experience because it shows that somehow consciousness has separated from the body, and for all intents and purposes, a person who has a cardiac arrest is dead. So this shows once again that consciousness survives bodily death.

extraordinary way when they're gonna die. I saw this so many times, and and the same thing about medical practice in a way, so it's unreally, it's relentless, right, so you don't have time to process all these amazing things you're seeing. But it does occur. People know in some way that I can't figure out when they're gonna die. When I was back in nineteen seventy, George, my wife was pregnant and this was my first child, and we both woke up in the middle of the night with

the same drink that we were losing the baby. And she was seeing it from her perspective and I was seeing it from my in my perspective when we got to the er, I saw the obstetrician with his back to me, and I remember to this day it's like the khaki pants and the plaid shirt and the tawny colored long hair. Well, the trouble was the I had only seen there was a It was a group of three obstetricians. I had only met one. But this night,

that the night we had the dream. Then the next night, twenty four hours later, it happened just as we dreamed it. And when we went to the er, I saw that doctor that I had never seen before, and he was exactly like I'd seen in the dreaming. And the reason I'm telling this is not to be autobiographical, but you know a lot of folks listening in will say, yeah, me too. This is in a way that I can't understand.

The time since is mixed up during the dying process, and I just you know, I saw this all the time.

business partner. All around him has changed and everything it transformed him completely, Scooge and these there you go, and these transformative effects and near death experiences can be documented. So there's several studies that have documented them, and what they say is that through near death experiences. Number one, there's a great decrease in death anxiety with people who

have had a near death experience. But people who have near death experiences also have a tendency to have a higher zest for living, and that's defined as the subject is type A without the anger. They're very aggressively living life. And another thing that is very supernatural is that the people who have had near death experiences have at least four times the number of verifiable psychic experiences as people

around them. So verifiable psychic experience would be that you have a dream the night before you're going to take a plane flight somewhere that the plane is crashed. Yeah, you get up in the morning, you tell your spouse that the plane you had this dream and in fact then there is a plane crash and you're not on it. That's how dramatic they can be.

she delivered. Well, anyway, I got to know this fine young woman, and I want to emphasize that, just a delightful person. Okay, Now, then I left that unit. That was my service in that unit was over before she had her baby. Now flashed forward three years. I was sitting in the cafeteria at the hospital. In the middle of the night, I was on call for psychiatry and George, I mean, you know, I don't have the words. This

apparition quoated in. I mean, this young woman and she was very then she seemed full of light for one of the better term, very light on her feet. And she sat down and she said, doctor Moody, you don't remember me, but she said, three years ago I was and it was this very young woman. And she told me that after I had left, she did deliver the baby and she almost bled out during the delivery and

had a cardiac arrest in a near death experience. And she said that when she tried to tell the nurse, they said, oh, that doctor Moody, he was here a few weeks ago. He studies this. So there in the middle of the night, this woman floated in. She had she had done her nursing studies, she has been a nurse. But the transformation I saw in that person, I mean, I just can't describe it. It was like a transfiguration

is not a is not an exaggeration. It was one of the most startling things I have experienced during my residency. To see the physical transformation even in this young woman. I mean it was and not only she was, as I said, very nice person, but the depth after her

her experience was what impressed me. I mean, I just really don't have the words to describe it, but I know that these transformations of people, as I'm sure you've noticed too, when of the people you've talked through in the really profound.

that limitation. However, I had numerous cases over the years where people have told me that they had previously read accounts of near death experiences, then subsequently had their own near death experience, and while they were having their near death experience, were able to recognize what it was from what they had read.