Reunions: Visionary Encounters With Departed Loved Ones - Softcover

Raymond Moody Jr.; Paul Perry

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9780804112352: Reunions: Visionary Encounters With Departed Loved Ones

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ISBN 10: 0804112355 ISBN 13: 9780804112352

Publisher: Ivy Books, 1994

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A collection of the experiences of men and women who have communicated with the dead using the easy-to-learn techniques developed by Dr. Raymond Moody. As proof of life after death, these stunning testimonials promise to launch even more research and give comfort to people around the world.

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About the Author:

Raymond Moody received his BA, MA, and PhD from the University of Virginia. After teaching philosophy at East Carolina University, he received his MD from the Medical College of Georgia in 1976 and then served his residency at the University of Virginia Medical School. His works include Life After Life, Reflections on Life After Life, and The Light Beyond.

Paul Perry is the co-author of several New York Times bestsellers, including Closer to the Light, Transformed by the Light, and Saved by the Light, which was made into a popular movie by Fox TV. His books have been published in more than thirty languages around the world. In 1986 Perry's interest in the effects and meaning of near-death experiences led to a professional involvement with Dr. Raymond Moody, considered to be the founder of near-death studies. The two have written five books together—Paranormal, Glimpses of Eternity, The Light Beyond, Coming Back, and Reunions.

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Will the first medical doctor to establish a scientific basis for near-death experiences be able to bring the same sort of legitimacy to visionary encounters? He hopes so. Thanks initially to Moody's best-selling Life after Life (1981), those now-familiar characteristics of the near-death experience--the tunnel; the bright, white light; the sightings of dead relatives--have become part of popular culture. Now Moody's here to offer another breakthrough: you don't have to be hit by a truck to see the dear departed. By researching and experimenting with ancient techniques such as mirror and crystal gazing, he claims to have developed a way to reach the dead without being near death, and according to the many personal accounts given here, these meetings are not like seeing a ghost. They are "more real than real" and "in no way like a dream." Although Moody facilitates these encounters at his Theater of the Mind in rural Alabama, not to worry: there's no need to take the midnight train to Alabama because he gives directions for making a pschyomanteaum (an apparitional chamber, more or less) in your very own home. Moody doesn't say much about what happens if the reunions go bad, though he does warn that sometimes a different loved one might appear than the one who was expected, so you have to be as prepared for your grumpy uncle to turn up as your beloved aunt. The book is filled with historical and literary accounts of visionary experiences, proving that the desire to contact the departed is as old as life itself. It doesn't take a visionary to know that this book will be very popular. Ilene Cooper

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