ABSTRACT
During its preparation, Moody could have had little idea of the controversy that Life After Life was to trigger. Whilst he had anticipated reaction to his book from a variety of sources, writing in its opening pages that his research must surely have implications for a number of fields, including psychology, psychiatry, medicine, philosophy, theology and religion, it could scarcely be imagined in the mid-1970s that his work would also be foundational for the entirely new academic subdiscipline of near-death studies, together with a global research organization devoted to the exploration of the phenomenon he had done so much to unearth.
