Making Sense of Nonsense: The Logical Bridge Between Science & Spirituality

You know the story, the optimist is the one who searches through the room full of manure and says, "There must be a pony in here somewhere." That's how I felt as I kept plowing through this book. What a disappointment...NO PONY. I have loved all of Ray Moody's books. Always learned a lot. I just couldn't find anything here that gave me an aha moment. And frankly plowing through all that nonsense was so darn hard. I had to really persevere to stick with it and read that "goble de gook" (that's a tip of the hat to the nonsense theme). I don't care what kind of nonsense those nonsense words should be categorized as. Who cares? What a complete waste of time to learn about nonsense in order to think I would have a better understanding of people's near death experiences in the future. No payoff for any of that. I usually don't write a review for anything I don't like, thinking that someone else might like it so I should keep my opinions to myself. But I needed to jump in and say something this time. Sorry, Ray.

This book was not *totally* without value--however, basically everything Moody says about it is false advertising. The book should be a total of 50-60 pages, not 250. In the beginning he says how he has identified at least 70 types of nonsense but will not be just listing them--yet he then goes on to spend the next ~150 pages pointlessly listing, describing, and giving examples of a bunch of different types of nonsense.In the last 30 or so pages he finally gets down to discussing the "bottom lines" of the book, which if you're like me is what you would be buying this book for in the first place. And even then he does so VERY underwhelmingly.Overall, this book reads like exactly what it is: a book written by a philosophy professor summarizing a class that he has taught, knowing that he has at least a certain guaranteed readership because he can force his students to buy it. Only the first 30 and last 30 pages bear much interest, and all of the stuff in the middle feels like he was just trying to fill pages. It definitely doesnt achieve what he claims, and the stuff that he advertises about it, ie., "bridging science and spirituality," is practically not addressed in the book at all.I would not recommend this book.

This should be advertised as a textbook. The title is deceiving as it has nothing to do with spirituality. It doesn't make sense of nonsense....it is nonsense.

Making Sense of Nonsense corrects Aristocratic thinking and will be seen for its’ importance 100 years from now.It can allow us to see the world in whole new ways.The author’s linguistic detailed approach provides the understanding word by word.Philosophical paradigms are changed.This book was written for the ages and so take as much as you can from it.Serious focus on it will change your life.

I decided to do the exercises that he recommends at the end of the training sections. Oh my goodness, really got my brain to move outside of its usual restraints. I do feel it has helped me get comfortable with out-of-the-box thinking.

Good book! Glad I bought it!

Shocked at the absurd content.

Just started reading this book. Dr. Raymond Moody is the best MESR death Researcher on the planet