I'm Dr. Amy Robbins and welcome to Life, Death, and the Space Between podcast.

Today is an interview with Dr. Raymond Moody that I recorded a while back on psychomantiums.

And the purpose of this interview was that University of Heaven was going to do a workshop.

And this was going to be sort of your introduction

to psychomantiums if you were interested in doing the workshop but unfortunately it doesn't

seem that workshop is going to happen anytime soon and I really wanted to share this information with

you all because I thought it was a really cool concept and a perfect thing to talk about

on Halloween. So if you're interested in learning more, you can go to University of Heaven or

Lifeafterlife.com and sign up for their newsletters and they will have information if they do

do a workshop in the future. Otherwise, just enjoy this podcast.

In 1975, Dr. Raymond Moody coined the term near-death experience in his book Life After

Life. For half a century, Dr. Moody has researched some of life's greatest mysteries.

As both a PhD in philosophy and an MD, he has a strong

interest in how medical realities intersect with the ineffable realm of philosophy. In his

multiple roles as author, professor, public speaker, and grief counselor, he has heard thousands

of accounts of near- shared death and after death

experiences it is my humble honor to welcome dr. Raymond Moody to life death and the

space between podcast welcome back welcome back thank you so much it's so good to be with you

again thank you so today we're going to talk about psychomantiums. And this was completely a new concept for me when I spoke with Lisa a couple weeks ago.

Most people have probably never heard of this before. I had certainly never heard of it before. What is a psychomantium?

The most fascinating story of history, Amy, is the story of ancient Greek philosophy and how that

all came about. And it's the kind of thing that if you wrote up what happened and you submitted it to the National

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