Making Sense of Nonsense, Raymond Moody, MD, PhD
Making Sense of Nonsense, Raymond Moody, MD, PhD
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Making Sense of Nonsense
The Logical Bridge Between Science & Spirituality

Author: Raymond Moody, MD, PhD

Narrator: Jonathan Yen

Unabridged: 6 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/21/2020


Synopsis

When New York Times bestselling author Raymond Moody began writing about near-death experiences, he noticed that the stories resembled the nonsensical writing of his literary heroes Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, and Dr. Seuss.

In this book, Dr. Moody shares the groundbreaking results of four decades of research into the philosophy of nonsense, revealing new ways to understand and experience life, death, and spirituality. Explore the nuanced feelings that accompany nonsense language, and learn how engaging with nonsense can help you on your spiritual path. Discover how nonsense transcends classical true/false logic, opening the doorway to new spiritual and philosophical breakthroughs. With dozens of examples from literature, comedy, music, and art, this accessible book presents a fascinating new approach to the mysteries of the human spirit.

About Raymond Moody, MD, PhD

Raymond Moody, MD, PhD, coined the term "near-death experience" in his New York Times bestselling book Life After Life. Throughout his five-decade career, he has publicly lectured about near-death and shared-death experiences, and he has published several bestselling books. He is a frequent television guest, having appeared dozens of times on national programs, including The Oprah Winfrey Show.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ramona on December 19, 2019

This book is not what I was expecting when I requested it. I'm familiar with this publisher, having read several of their titles in the past. That, along with the synopsis, plus the fact that it's in the category of religion & spirituality, I was expecting this to be a book about spirituality, but i......more

Goodreads review by ☘Misericordia☘ on April 26, 2022

I'd say this was a weird read on how our language makes (and at times doesn't make) sense. Like we see with kids, perimortem nonsense and other appearances of language that is not. Remakrable, when researchers go lateral or even spread their interests to entire irrelevant to their original sphere of......more

Goodreads review by Linda on November 12, 2019

In his forever remarkable book, Dr. Moody helps us to get up close and personal with nonsense – that which makes no sense, and yet wields the power to embellish flat language with its presence or conversely make interesting language slouch with its absence. I cannot begin to tell you how much fun it......more

Goodreads review by Chris on January 03, 2022

An excellent and singular book on the nature of ‘nonsense’, how can we identify it, how do we categorize different kinds of ‘nonsense’, is there an internal structure to it, and what is the context by which it is found (literature, psychology, medical science, metaphysics, philosophy etc.) . Though,......more

Goodreads review by Rajan on January 30, 2021

Double-talk is created by a simple formula: Begin sentences with phrases like, “Do you know—?”or “Will you please tell me—?”or “Do you have any idea where—?”to get listeners’attention. Their wheels start turning as they prepare to come up with an answer. Then toss in a liberal quantity of made-up, m......more