
“I’m not asking you to believe anything. I’m simply telling you what I believe. And I have no idea what the next life will be like. Whatever I saw was only from the doorway, so to speak. But it was enough to convince me totally of two things from that moment on: One, that our consciousness does not cease with physical death; that it becomes, in fact, keener and more aware than ever. And secondly, that how we spend our time on earth, the kind of relationships we build, is vastly more important than we can know.”
(George G. Ritchie, M.D., summarizing his own famous near-death experience; his book Return from Tomorrow caught the attention of Raymond Moody, M.D., Ph.D., and helped thereby to create the public fascination with such experiences)