George G. Ritchie

Dr. George G. Ritchie, M.D. has 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. He lives in Virginia. At the age of twenty, George Ritchie died in an army hospital. Nine minutes later he returned to life.

Dr. Ritchie wrote of his near-death experience in Return from Tomorrow, co-written with Elizabeth Sherrill (1978).

In Return from Tomorrow, he tells of his out-of-body experience with other beings, his travel through different dimensions of time and space, and ultimately, his meeting with Jesus Christ.

It was Dr. George G. Ritchie's story that first inspired Dr. Raymond Moody, PhD (who was studying at the University of Virginia, as an undergraduate in Philosophy, at the time) to first come in contact with NDEs. This led Dr. Moody to investigate over 150 cases of Near Death Experiences, in his book Life after Life and his two other books that followed.