The Announcing Dream: Dreams and Visions of Children Waiting to Be Born<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
As will be obvious to anybody who has followed this blog with any degree of attention, I\u2019m deeply interested in near-death experiences. \u00a0My interest is motivated by various aspects, but one of them is simply this: \u00a0The great Harvard philosopher and psychologist William James liked to say that the only thing necessary to prove that not all crows are black is one white crow. \u00a0If a single believable NDE account or out-of-body-experience can be identified, that will be enough, in and of itself, to refute materialism, or reductionism, or naturalism, or mind-body identity.<\/p>\n
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From the account of Dr.\u00a0George G. Ritchie\u2019s\u00a0near-death experience given in his book\u00a0Return from Tomorrow<\/em>:<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did you do with your life?<\/span>
\n It seemed to be a question about values, not facts: What did you accomplish with the precious time you were allotted?<\/span>
\n How much have you loved with your life? Have you loved others as I am loving you? \u00a0Totally? \u00a0Unconditionally?<\/span>
\n I have shown you by the life I lived. \u00a0I showed you by the death I died. \u00a0And if you keep your eyes on Me, you will see more. . . . \u201c<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cDeath is nothing more than a doorway,\u201d Dr. Ritchie\u00a0insisted, \u201csomething you walk through.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
George G. Ritchie, M.D.\u00a0(1923-2007), was born in Richmond, Virginia. \u00a0He eventually\u00a0served as president of Richmond\u2019s\u00a0Academy of General Practice;\u00a0chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Towers Hospital in Charlottesville, Virginia;\u00a0and founder and president of the Universal Youth Corps, Inc., for almost twenty\u00a0years.\u00a0\u00a0In 1967, he entered private psychiatric\u00a0practice in Charlottesville, Virginia. \u00a0Then, in 1983, he moved to Anniston, Alabama, in order\u00a0to serve as head of the Department of Psychiatry at the Northeast Alabama Regional Medical Center. He returned to Richmond in 1986 to continue in private practice, retiring in 1992.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 It was somehow appropriate to go up almost immediately from Arnie Green\u2019s funeral to an interview in Salt Lake City for a film about not only near-death experiences or NDEs but experiences suggestive of a premortal existence. \u00a0 The film project, apparently led by Tom Laughlin, appears to be built around or upon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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