I seem to have missed updates on this until today.

Yes...I would have problems with Moody's methods.
"Moody has also researched past life regression...".... gee, I wonder how that is done. You get hypnotized? You read a bunch of stories of 'confident' people? You keep records of your dreams?

As to a degree in Philosophy, I have met a couple who amazed me at how little they learned while they were fulfilling the conditions for degrees. There is 'bring able to memorize stuff and parrot stuff their committees will like'...then there is 'absorbing the basic principles of rational thinking and gaining a perspective of how human beings have developed thru history...etc.
I'll bet I WOULD like the Galileo book...right now I'm trying to get thru Paul Ehrlich's last book on 'everything relevant to evolution'