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Glimpses of Eternity
An investigation into shared death experiences
Moody explores what he calls “shared-death experiences” — cases where people who are not dying temporarily enter the perceptual field of someone who is.
These witnesses report elements identical to near-death experiences:
– expansion of awareness
– perception of a luminous presence
– panoramic life review of the dying person
– dissolution of ordinary time
– sensations of traveling with the departing consciousness
The book demonstrates that the boundary between one person’s awareness and another’s dissolves at the moment of transition.
This suggests that consciousness is not confined to the brain and that the “death moment” opens a field of shared perception — a portal traditionally associated with mystical initiation.
These witnesses report elements identical to near-death experiences:
– expansion of awareness
– perception of a luminous presence
– panoramic life review of the dying person
– dissolution of ordinary time
– sensations of traveling with the departing consciousness
The book demonstrates that the boundary between one person’s awareness and another’s dissolves at the moment of transition.
This suggests that consciousness is not confined to the brain and that the “death moment” opens a field of shared perception — a portal traditionally associated with mystical initiation.
Lineage Connection
Connects indirectly with:
– Eleusinian rites (shared vision during the initiatic “descent”)
– Tibetan and Egyptian transition texts
– Christian mysticism (the “communion of saints”)
– Shamanic psychopomp traditions
– Modern research on non-local consciousness
– Eleusinian rites (shared vision during the initiatic “descent”)
– Tibetan and Egyptian transition texts
– Christian mysticism (the “communion of saints”)
– Shamanic psychopomp traditions
– Modern research on non-local consciousness
Author’s Roles / Archetypes
Investigator, bridge-builder, modern interpreter of transition states, rational witness to initiatic thresholds.
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Related Books
Mysticism
Studies in Christian Spirituality
First published in 1911, Mysticism remains the classic in its field and was lauded by The Princeton Theological Review as “brilliantly written [and] illuminated with numerous well-chosen extracts … used with exquisite skill.”
Mysticism makes an in-depth and comprehensive exploration of its subject. Part One examines “The Mystic Fact,” explaining the relation of mysticism to vitalism, to psychology, to theology, to symbolism, and to magic. Part Two, “The Mystic Way,” explores the awakening, purification, and illumination of the self; discusses voices and visions; and delves into manifestatioins from ecstasty and rapture to the dark night of the soul. Rounding out the book are a useful Appendix, an exhaustive Bibliography, and an Index.
Mysticism is thoroughly documented with material drawn from such great mystics as St. Teresa of Avila, Meister Eckhart, and St. John of the Cross, and this new Image Classic features a Foreword by Ira Progoff, translator of Cloud Unknowing and director of Dialogue House in New York City.
Mysticism makes an in-depth and comprehensive exploration of its subject. Part One examines “The Mystic Fact,” explaining the relation of mysticism to vitalism, to psychology, to theology, to symbolism, and to magic. Part Two, “The Mystic Way,” explores the awakening, purification, and illumination of the self; discusses voices and visions; and delves into manifestatioins from ecstasty and rapture to the dark night of the soul. Rounding out the book are a useful Appendix, an exhaustive Bibliography, and an Index.
Mysticism is thoroughly documented with material drawn from such great mystics as St. Teresa of Avila, Meister Eckhart, and St. John of the Cross, and this new Image Classic features a Foreword by Ira Progoff, translator of Cloud Unknowing and director of Dialogue House in New York City.
Life After Life
The pioneering investigation into Near-Death Experiences and the continuity of consciousness beyond the biological self.
Moody gathers hundreds of testimonies from people who experienced clinical death and returned with consistent descriptions: separation from the body, panoramic life review, presence of a luminous consciousness, and a dissolution of fear.
The book shows that when the physical body collapses, awareness does not disappear. Instead, a deeper layer of being becomes visible — one that is free from personal identity, time, and narrative.
These accounts echo the initiatic formula “die before you die,” offering empirical glimpses of what traditions describe as the death of the ego and the revelation of the immortal field.
The book shows that when the physical body collapses, awareness does not disappear. Instead, a deeper layer of being becomes visible — one that is free from personal identity, time, and narrative.
These accounts echo the initiatic formula “die before you die,” offering empirical glimpses of what traditions describe as the death of the ego and the revelation of the immortal field.
The Immortality Key
The Secret History of the Religion with No Name
Drawing from fifteen years of research, classicist and lawyer Brian Muraresku reopens the investigation into whether the earliest Christians and ancient Greeks shared a secret sacramental technology — an entheogenic Eucharist capable of producing direct experiences of immortality. Building on the work of R. Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann, and Carl A.P. Ruck in The Road to Eleusis, Muraresku travels from the ruins of Eleusis to the catacombs of the Vatican, uncovering traces of a pre-Christian mystery religion centered on the Divine Feminine and ecstatic communion through psychoactive wine. The book bridges science, theology, and ancient spirituality, suggesting that the “lost sacrament” of the West may have been hiding in plain sight.