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Title: The Last Laugh: A New Philosophy of Near-Death Experiences, Apparitions, and the Paranormal by Raymond A., Jr. Moody, Neale Donald Walsch ISBN: 1-57174-106-2 Publisher: Hampton Roads Pub Co Pub. Date: May, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.55 (20 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Moody Performs a Successful Reader-ectomy
Comment: 'The Last Laugh' by Raymond Moody, MD.
Yesterday, I did a speed read of this book in Barnes & Noble over a cup of black coffee and a pizza-sized oatmeal raisin cookie while waiting for Aikido class to start. I was looking forward to reading some new and interesting insights from this near-death pioneer.
Unfortunately, there was none of that in the book. The book was a dry, long-winded, twisted discussion of the intractable points of view between skeptics, religious fundamentalists, and psi believers. I came away with the feeling that while Dr. Moody believes in psi, he wants to distance himself from the New Agers and people that blindly believe any psi claim that comes along. At the same time, he raps the knuckles of the skeptics and the fundamentalists. It seems to me he could have said all of that in four pages. But in the early chapters, he admonishes the reader to 'hang in there and take the journey with me.' Don't fall for it. There's no payoff. If distancing himself was his goal, Dr. Moody seems to have achieved a successful reader-ectomy.
If near-death anecdotes are what you want to read, read Dr. Moody's previous books. 'The Last Laugh' ain' t it. I think I got the last laugh because I didn't shell out the $12.75 to be disappointed.
Rating: 3
Summary: Backs off his previous position on NDE's
Comment: Raymond Moody gives his overall attitude to the field of the paranormal and I'm in some respects sympathetic. A big revelation for his fans is that Moody has backed off his claims that NDE's can be interpreted as evidence of life after death.
Good for him! NDE's are poor evidence of life after death and these experiences have other better explanations. If your a survivalist, believing in some sort of meaningful survival after bodily death, then this maybe a shock. However, there are better sources of evidence suggesting an afterlife than NDE's. Please read "Immortal Remains: The Evidence for Life after Death" by Stephen E. Braude.
Rating: 1
Summary: The Last Laugh? That a Laugh!
Comment: If you are looking for a good book to read on near-death experiences and the paranormal, then "The Last Laugh, a new philosophy of near-death experiences, apparitions, and the Paranormal," is definitely not for you! I am not exactly sure how Mr. Moody's first book was set up, but if it were anything like this one, it would not have been a best seller!
In his premise he attempts to show that life after death and the paranormal are just entertainment, games, media, Hollywood...etc. and can very easily be seen that way. Yet, later he wants to conclude that near death experiences doesn't have to be experienced when one is near death. How can this be if a near-death experience is just to keep people entertained? He then totally discredits himself by telling the reader that he is not now, nor has never been an expert. That is the only time that I agreed with him!
Throughout the whole book he tells how "we are going to look" at different events of the Paranormal. Yet he spends the entire time going on and on about a play of words (if I wanted to know another word other than paranormal, I would look it up in the thesaurus). If not that he talks about the different people attacking his first book. (Parapsychologists who say he has no proof, the Professional skeptics, and the Christian Fundamentalists who say he is going to hell) Eminem also choose to attack the people who attacked him in his life through his songs. Most of his music is band in many schools and even the writing circuits. If Dr. Moody did not try to be so elaborate and get to the point, the book could have been shorter and more entertaining. Then everyone else could be "laughing" with him.
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Title: Reunions by Paul Per ISBN: 0804112355 Publisher: Ivy Books Pub. Date: 31 October, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Life After Life : The Investigation of a Phenomenon--Survival of Bodily Death by Raymond Moody ISBN: 0062517392 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 06 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Light Beyond by Raymond Moody ISBN: 0553278134 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 August, 1989 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Closer to the Light by Melvin Morse, Paul Perry, Raymond A. Moody ISBN: 0804108323 Publisher: Ivy Books Pub. Date: 30 July, 1991 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: COMING BACK by Raymond Moody ISBN: 0553293982 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 January, 1992 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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