What would it be like to take a vacation to visit your dead relatives?
Funny question, right? But that’s what Raymond Moody, author of Life and Life and Reunions and other books, offered when he opened the John Dee Memorial Theater of the Mind, a chamber designed after the ancient Greek’s psychomanteums, where priests organized encounters between the living and the dead.
The chamber features mirrors, similar after an Aztec mirror owned by John Dee. It was said that by gazing into the mirror while in a receptive state of mind, you would have a vision.
In an interview with Sharon Barbell, Moody said, “The big surprise is that the apparitions actually come out of the mirror…the fact that the apparitions talk and you actually hear them is absolutely mind-bending to me.”
He went on to say: “The most important thing that I see going on is people reconciling and healing. The ones that come to my mind are usually the most recent ones. Just a week or two ago, we had a wonderful couple from Texas come here and this woman saw her father who had died and her grandparents. And really felt that a reconciliation occurred, she saw the three of them just come right up to the mirror and there they were in that in between space, the Middle Realm as it were, and communicated with them and got things really reconciled and found out that everything was fine there.”
Here’s another story he tells. “A very wonderful ophthalmologist came and saw his mother, who had been a very influential figure in his life. All of these are very, very significant events in my own life. I just really feel so privileged now to have been with 35 people right after they have seen apparitions of the departed. And actually to be able to talk with them and to participate almost with them. It’s been just really wonderful.
“I strongly recommend this to all therapists who might want to find a new technique to help people with this. This is just really extraordinary, I would say. Far and away the most interesting work I have ever done in my life.”
If you’re interested in stepping into the Theater of the Mind, you can contact Moody here. We’d love to hear someone’s personal experience in the chamber.















