Raymond Moody

Raymond A. Moody, He is a psychiatrist and has a degree in philosophy.. He is also a famous author of books like Life After Life and Regressions.
Considered the 'Father of Near-Death Experiences', he has been a fundamental pillar for the growing and progressive presence of the scientific approach to the transcendental and the analysis of phenomena that did not seem to have a rational explanation from the scientific and medical paradigm..

Moody was born in Porterdale, Georgia, and currently lives in rural Alabama. He studied philosophy and graduated from the University of Virginia where he obtained a B.A.. (1966), a master (M.A., 1967) and a Ph.D. (Ph. D., 1969) in that specialty.

He also earned a doctorate in psychology from West Georgia College, where he would later be a teacher. In 1976, he was awarded his doctorate (M.D.) at the Medical College of Georgia.
In 1998, Moody appointed Chair in Consciousness Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. After obtaining his doctorate, Moody worked as a forensic psychiatrist at Georgia's maximum security state hospital..

Moody founded Dr.. John Dee Memorial Theater of the Mind, an Alabama research institute whose function is to allow people to experience modified states of consciousness for the purpose of invoking apparitions of the dead. One of the best known methods is psychomanteum or “mirror gazing”, consisting of obtaining this altered state of consciousness in a closed room with the help of a mirror and poor lighting.

Moody has also researched past life regressions and thinks, due to a hypnotic session carried out by psychologist Diana Denholm, that he himself has had nine past lives.