They all wanted me to give this woman’s experience a convenient psychiatric label so they could forget it.” (There Is Life After Death by Kenneth L. She later wrote: “They all leaped on me because I refused to label the woman’s story as hallucination. Ross, the reaction of students at the seminar surprised her. She was even able to repeat a joke one attendant had told in an effort to relieve the tension. Schwartz explained that she had observed the doctors frantically working on her from her vantage point above the bed, and she was later able to report which members of the team had wanted to give up. Moody’s ground-breaking book, Life After Life, brought the concept of near-death experiences to the attention of the world! Now, keep in mind that this occurred about a decade before the publication of Dr. Schwartz related how she had floated out of her body and watched as the nurse rushed out of the room to summon help. She brought a woman to the stage who had been declared dead but had been resuscitated. During one of these seminars, she did something so controversial, it almost destroyed her reputation! Ross instigated a course at the University of Chicago and began weekly seminars on the treatment of terminally ill patients.
Her brother had died only a few months before she was born, and neither of her parents had ever mentioned him to her. But this caused her confusion, because she didn’t have a brother. The girl told her father that she had traveled to the “other side” where she had been lovingly held by her brother. As she explained to her father: “I don’t want to tell my mummy that there is a nicer home than ours.” A few years earlier, when she had been deathly ill, she had left her body and had not wanted to return. A twelve-year-old girl confessed to her father that she had an experience she’d never told to anyone. Throughout the 1960’s, she had interviewed over five hundred terminally ill patients, sat beside countless numbers who were going through the dying process, and listened intently to the stories of many who had died and been resuscitated. “As soon as the house is in an irreparable condition,” she would say, “it will release the butterfly.” Ross explained that when she sat at the bedside of a dying child, she would explain to the child that the human body is like a cocoon, and that it is only a house to live in for a while. It is still regarded world-wide as the classic work in its field of thanatology. Ross received international recognition and acclaim for her first book, On Death and Dying (1969) and it remained on the US non-fiction bestseller list for over a decade. These were the opening lines of On Life After Death, a little book containing transcripts of three lectures given by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross between 19.ĭr. “Many people say: Of course, Doctor Ross has seen too many dying patients. The following post is from Sandy Coghlan’s blog “ Heaven Knows…” and is reposted with permission.
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