Near-Death Experience - George Ritchie - The NDE That Launched The NDE Movement

Dr. George G. Ritchie, M.D. (born September 25, 1923; died October 29, 2007) held positions as president of the Richmond Academy of General Practice; chairman of the Department of Psychiatry of Towers Hospital; and founder and president of the Universal Youth Corps, Inc. for almost 20 years. In 1967, he entered private psychiatry practice in Richmond and in 1983, moved to Anniston, Alabama, to serve as head of the Department of Psychiatry at the Northeast Alabama Regional Medical Center. He returned to Richmond in 1986 to continue in private practice until retirement in 1992. At the age of twenty, George Ritchie died in an army hospital and was pronounced dead twice by the doctor on duty. Nine minutes later he returned to life. Dr. Ritchie wrote of his near-death experience (NDE) in Return from Tomorrow, co-written with Elizabeth Sherrill, in 1978. In Return from Tomorrow, he tells of his out-of-body experience, his meeting with Jesus Christ, and his travel with Christ through different dimensions of time and space. Return from Tomorrow has been translated into nine languages. Ritchie’s story was the first contact Dr. Raymond Moody, PhD had with NDEs, during his undergraduate studies in philosophy at the University of Virginia. This led Moody to investigate over 150 cases of NDEs in his book Life After Life and two other books that followed. Moody’s first book, Life After Life, was dedicated to Ritchie: “To George Ritchie, M.D. and, through him, to the One whom he suggested.” In 2019, Raymond Moody also described Ritchie as “the finest human being I have ever known.”

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Learn about near-death experiencer Dr. George Ritchie:

http://ndestories.org/george-ritchie/

Return from Tomorrow (1978, 2007 Book)
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00B856974/nhne-20

Life After Life (1975, 2015 Book)
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/006242890X/nhne-20

My Life After Dying (1998 Book)
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1571747311/nhne-20

This description of Jesus appears in George Ritchie's book, My Life After Dying:

"I was standing in front of this majestic Being, of whom I had been told: 'Stand up. You are in the presence of the Son of God.' I had never seen such a being. He was powerfully built even in His spiritual transfigured body, which radiated a brilliant white light. I thought, 'No wonder He could walk through a mob and no one would attack Him, if His physical body was anything like His magnificent spiritual body.' In fact, He did not look like any of the paintings I had seen of Him in the stained glass windows of the churches where I had been. This was no sweet, gentle Jesus, meek, weak, or mild. Here stood a robust male who radiated strength.

"Due to the brilliant light emitting from this Being it was difficult to make out the color of His hair or eyes but I sensed, more than saw, that He had blue eyes with chestnut-brown hair parted in the middle. He was slightly taller than I, which would place His height at over six feet, two inches. Though He was dressed in a magnificent white robe, his powerful muscular frame shone through. He was ageless and yet appeared about 35 years of age.

"All of the above description is not sufficient to describe the most outstanding thing about Him. Here stood a Being that knew everything I had ever done in my life, for the panorama of my life surrounded us, and yet He totally accepted and loved me. I have never felt such love or compassion. Before He entered the room, I was desperately alone and frightened and could only think about how I could return to my body so I might be able to continue my life on Earth. After being in His presence and feeling His love, I never wanted to leave Him again for any reason. Nothing I had, no one I had ever known on Earth, could make me want to leave Someone who loved and accepted me like this One."

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Portions of George Ritchie's story are included in:

The Purpose Of Life As Revealed By Near-Death Experiences From Around the World
http://thepurposeoflife-nde.com/

500 Quotes From Heaven
http://quotesfromheaven.com/

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Learn about near-death experiences:

What Near-Death Experiences Teach Us
http://the-formula.org/resources/what-near-death-experiences-teach-us/

NHNE's Formula Website
http://the-formula.org

NDE Stories
http://ndestories.org/

Near-Death Experiences From Around The World
https://the-formula.org/nde-accounts/

Historical & Cross-Cultural Near-Death Experiences
https://the-formula.org/historical-cross-cultural-near-death-experiences/

The Purpose Of Life As Revealed By Near-Death Experiences From Around the World
http://thepurposeoflife-nde.com/

500 Quotes From Heaven
http://quotesfromheaven.com/