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.”