Exploring Your Creative Genius: Episode 147
This week’s episode of Exploring your Creative Genius had Dr. Raymond Moody as our guest. Dr. Moody is the pioneer in the field of near-death experience (NDE). In fact, he coined the phrase in his ground breaking book, published in 1975, ‘Life after Life.’
In this show Dr. Moody shared the stories of folks he’s interviewed over the years who had profound changes in their creative and artistic lives after their NDE and you’ll find them quite remarkable.
As I continued my reading on what NDE’s can tell us about creativity I found researchers who suggest the experience itself is a high order example of creativity. What could be more creative, they ask, than producing a world populated by beings who appear real, meaningful, and where an all-encompassing love is enjoyed?
The features of this phenomenon — the out of body experience, meeting relatives alive and dead, extraordinary landscapes of profound beauty and transcendent music — are remarkable creative outputs.
Referring specifically to NDEs caused by cardiac arrest, when the brain is oxygen deprived, one researcher, using a lamp analogy for the brain, pointed out that while we would expect the lamp to go out, instead it becomes ‘exponentially more brilliant.’
You can find more about ‘Life after Life’ on this Amazon link — and then order it from your favorite local bookstore.
“Exploring Your Creative Genius” takes an expansive view on what it means to be creative and entrepreneurial in an ongoing conversation led by Carl Nordgren — entrepreneur, novelist, and lifelong student with decades of experience growing his own creative capacity and assisting others to do the same in exciting new ways!
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