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Calculated Shard: 99 (from laksa151)

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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa099.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2018/dec/09/from-the-archive-1979-life-after-death\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2018/dec/09/from-the-archive-1979-life-after-death\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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He had a religious experience some time after, but it would be 35 years later, when he was a doctor and psychiatrist, that he published his experiences in  Return from Tomorrow . One of Ritchie’s students at medical school, Raymond Moody – ‘a burly and beaming man, with a philosopher’s forehead who converses with visitors in a rocking chair which he keeps in constant motion’ (not unsettling at all then) – looked for similar accounts after hearing about Ritchie’s experience. In the article, Moody says he ‘will not be drawn into the public debate on the significance of his findings… I have done as much as I am going to do in this field.’ Except that he went on to do just that, publishing books with titles such as  Glimpses of Eternity ;  The Light Beyond  and  Paranormal: My Life in Pursuit of the Afterlife . Other than the ‘autoscopic’ accounts – an out-of-body experience, where you feel as if you’re looking down on yourself – there are ‘transcendent’ versions, where ‘awareness passes into another mode’ and one sees, for example, ‘a figure of light who helps a review and evaluation of the past life, and shows the unfinished work which is still to be fulfilled before dying finally’. Perhaps they’d just been watching  A Christmas Carol . In another account, one man said he saw himself ‘come off the table about 9-10in’ when they were ‘rubbing those things together’ (a defibrillator) – a myth still propagated to this day by Hollywood films and TV dramas, the nadir of which was probably  Flatliners  (1990). 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He had a religious experience some time after, but it would be 35 years later, when he was a doctor and psychiatrist, that he published his experiences in *Return from Tomorrow*.\n\nOne of Ritchie’s students at medical school, Raymond Moody – ‘a burly and beaming man, with a philosopher’s forehead who converses with visitors in a rocking chair which he keeps in constant motion’ (not unsettling at all then) – looked for similar accounts after hearing about Ritchie’s experience.\n\nIn the article, Moody says he ‘will not be drawn into the public debate on the significance of his findings… I have done as much as I am going to do in this field.’ Except that he went on to do just that, publishing books with titles such as *Glimpses of Eternity*; *The Light Beyond* and *Paranormal: My Life in Pursuit of the Afterlife*.\n\nOther than the ‘autoscopic’ accounts – an out-of-body experience, where you feel as if you’re looking down on yourself – there are ‘transcendent’ versions, where ‘awareness passes into another mode’ and one sees, for example, ‘a figure of light who helps a review and evaluation of the past life, and shows the unfinished work which is still to be fulfilled before dying finally’. 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Photograph: Carl Fischer [View image in fullscreen](https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2018/dec/09/from-the-archive-1979-life-after-death#img-1) And so farewell: some people claim to have had out-of-body experiences. Photograph: Carl Fischer [From the Observer archive](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/series/from-the-observer-archive)[Life and style](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lifeandstyle) This article is more than 6 years old # From the archive: does life after death exist? This article is more than 6 years old In April 1979, the Observer Magazine set out to answer this timeless question [Chris Hall](https://www.theguardian.com/profile/chris-hall) Sun 9 Dec 2018 07.00 CET Last modified on Thu 26 Mar 2020 15.19 CET [Share](<mailto:?subject=From the archive: does life after death exist?&body=https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2018/dec/09/from-the-archive-1979-life-after-death?CMP=share_btn_url>) The Observer Magazine published the first of two articles on life after death (‘The evidence for life after life’) on 8 April 1979 and began with the case of George Ritchie, who was resuscitated with adrenaline after he’d ‘died’ for nine minutes in an army hospital in Texas in 1943. He had a religious experience some time after, but it would be 35 years later, when he was a doctor and psychiatrist, that he published his experiences in Return from Tomorrow. One of Ritchie’s students at medical school, Raymond Moody – ‘a burly and beaming man, with a philosopher’s forehead who converses with visitors in a rocking chair which he keeps in constant motion’ (not unsettling at all then) – looked for similar accounts after hearing about Ritchie’s experience. In the article, Moody says he ‘will not be drawn into the public debate on the significance of his findings… I have done as much as I am going to do in this field.’ Except that he went on to do just that, publishing books with titles such as Glimpses of Eternity; The Light Beyond and Paranormal: My Life in Pursuit of the Afterlife. Other than the ‘autoscopic’ accounts – an out-of-body experience, where you feel as if you’re looking down on yourself – there are ‘transcendent’ versions, where ‘awareness passes into another mode’ and one sees, for example, ‘a figure of light who helps a review and evaluation of the past life, and shows the unfinished work which is still to be fulfilled before dying finally’. Perhaps they’d just been watching A Christmas Carol. In another account, one man said he saw himself ‘come off the table about 9-10in’ when they were ‘rubbing those things together’ (a defibrillator) – a myth still propagated to this day by Hollywood films and TV dramas, the nadir of which was probably [Flatliners](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jun/13/flatliners-first-trailer-revealed-ellen-page-kiefer-sutherland) (1990). The main miracle being how any of the actors managed to have a working life after it. - This is the archive of The Observer up until 21/04/2025. 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