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Summary: fascinating
Review: Dr. Melvin Morse gives us one of the best books that I have ever read. Thought provoking and detailed. How do humans connect to God? Is it through the brain? What of near death experiences and how are they similar? Is there proof of past lives? Do they connect? What is our link to the universe, or our position? Many topics are explored in this book in detail. This book has to rate as one of the best on the subject of Paranormal Science. A must read for anyone who has an interest in the subject, or to someone who may be curious as to what this subject is all about. But this book, open your mind.
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Summary: Strongly Recommend!
Review: I found "Where God Lives" to be one of the best examinations of the NDE. Dr. Morse's section on children was compelling, but even more interesting was the section on past life remembrances. As Dr. Morse is a professional and researcher, the book is filled with case studies, scientific analysis and much insight. Although the premise of memory being stored in a place besides the brain may sound a little wacky and "occultish", the book is clearly not that at all. Definitely check this one out for an entertaining read.
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Summary: Long Awaited
Review: I would say that I have waited for a book of this magnitude and depth on near death experiences for the last five years. This book is NOT the story of one man, but the story and conclusions of many, especially NDE children. Finally someone has reviewed case upon case of near death episodes and come to some dramatic conclusions that are of great worth to the general public. Not only does this book discuss the multitude of ways that near death experiences transform their lives, the author also presents the opportunity for everyone to jump start the same area of the brain responsible for near death experiences and other spiritual happenings. Also of great importance is the disussions regarding intuition, spiritual healing, ghosts. Even more interesting is that the author connects these topics with many theories of modern day quantum physics. If you don't believe that this is scientific evidence enough for the validity of spiritual experiences than I don't know what is!
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Summary: Spiritual Autobiography
Review: Melvin Morse has taken a personal turn with this book that I very much enjoyed. The subject matter focuses on the right temporal lobe, and it's possible role in mystical experiences. Amidst this focus, though, we learn about Morse's life, how his research impacted his faith, his health habits, his family interactions, and even his blood pressure. If you like personal narrative from intelligent people about mystical/spiritual topics, this is worth a look.
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Summary: Incredible and Insightful
Review: My husband's book describes the secrets of living that he learned from studying children who had near death experiences. He used these secrets to get himself off of five medicines for asthma and high blood pressure, heal his own life threatening illness, and discover his own spirituality for the first time. I have seen him transformed over the years from an arrogant critical care physician who thought he knew everything to a gentle man willing to spend an extra minute with a patient, or an extra hour helping a grieving parent. His studies document that there is an area in our brain which allows us to communicate with god. This is the same area responsable for intution, telepathy, remote viewing and mind-body healing. He has discovered that there are real angels guiding our lives. He presents a case of a well documented miraculous cure of one of his own patients who had a fatal liver disease, a cure facilitated by spiritual intervention. His book is oddly practical. He shares with us extremely moving stories of children who have faced death, and learns from them that the secrets of living are to pay off our credit card debt, give money to charity, and to go jogging in the morning with our 12 year old son. My husband shares with the readers his own spiritual experience, something I was shocked to learn that he had. He had never discussed it with even his own family. He is the sort of guy who watches football on Sundays and likes to say that he doesn't have a spiritual bone in his body. When I asked him about it, he said he wanted to share his experience with his readers because "if I can learn to use my right temporal lobe to have a spiritual vision, anyone can learn to use it. Why wait until we die to have the experience?". I was a little mad to read the review stating that his book was boring. There is nothing boring about his book! He presents a new theory of how our brains link to the universe, and explains how angel encounters, ghostly visions, paranormal talents and mind-body healing can actually work! He explains how anyone can tap into the power of the near death experience to transform their lives. Even our sex life is better after we applied the ten secrets of the near death experience to our daily life. It is a science book, but very easy to read with lots of stories. He has hundreds of scientific references he put in the back of the book so people can delve deeper into the topics he presents. He has already published in scientific journals that main concepts in his book and he is always being invited to conferences all around the world. I won't let him go because we have five children, so if you want to learn about why near death experiences are important in your life, you will have to read his book.
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Summary: Cosmic consciousness from NDE perspective
Review: This book consists of a series of case studies into Near Death Experiences (NDE's) and identifies the right temporal lobe as the place where the individual interfaces with a greater consciousness. The author calls this "the God spot" and claims that this region is instrumental in facilitating mind-body healing, is responsible for mystical visions, psychic powers and vivid spiritual experiences. His study of NDE's has revealed that we have the biological potential to interact with the universe at any time in our lives. It is thus important to learn how to activate the right temporal lobe. The author's studies demonstrate that children who have had NDE's are more balanced in their physical, mental and spiritual lives. They feel a purpose in living and do not fear death. Trusting their intuition, they feel that they can again connect with the divine presence without brushing with death again. These children develop certain habits later in life that the author calls the ten secrets of happiness: exercise, pay attention to your life patterns, family and relationships, trust your intuition, service to others, financial planning, healthy diet, meditation/prayer, learning to love and spirituality. He also discusses the scientific theories of people like Dr Karl Pribram, Michael Talbot and others and looks at cases of reincarnation that defy easy explanation, synchronicity and spiritual healing and comes to the conclusion that consciousness ripples throughout reality like a pebble in a pond. Morse believes that early humans were too dominated by the right temporal lobe so that individuality was not fully expressed. Modern man is too left-brain dominated so that people become too isolated. NDE's remind us that we are interconnected spiritual beings as well as unique individuals. He concludes with an appeal to us to learn to use more of our mind in order to transcend the five senses and reach for an expanded human consciousness, a type of sixth sense. Much helpful advice is given on how to become well and stay balanced and optimistic. The voluminous bibliography consists of separately listed books and articles under the following headings: Scientific and Medical References, References Concerning Death-Related Visions, The Scientific Study Of The Paranormal, Scientific Perspectives On Religion, Spirituality and Consciousness, Mind-Body Healing, Memory and Past-Life Memories, Religion and Spirituality, and Miscellaneous References. This book covers much familiar terrain in consciousness research. Readers who appreciate Where God Lives will also find much of interest in old classics like Richard M Bucke's Cosmic Consciousness and modern works like Roger Coghill's Dark Side Of The Brain, Drury's Inner Visions and Sheldrake, McKenna and Abrahams' Chaos, Creativity And Cosmic Consciousness.
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Summary: Naive Speculation
Review: This book is great for people who already believe in God and a spiritual connection and desire greatly to understand how this can be reconciled with the brain and modern insights into neurology. The answer Morse gives is speculation that would be rejected by the great majority of neuroscientists, but is swallowed hook line and sinker by the new age community. For someone who is on the fence and wants a survey of compelling reasons *why* Dr. Morse believes the right temporal lobe (and related structures) is the gateway to God, all you will get is some ad hominem speculation and some outright naive comments such as one where he says that if we all had healthy and properly functioning right temporal lobes, we would all be standing around in a haze of light and love. I am not trying to be a curmudgeon and say that there is no spiritual reality, I am on the fence about that. What I am saying however, is that many of Dr. Morse's (or should I say, Paul Perry who actually wrote the book) statements are absurd and naive. If you want to understand more about the problem behind Morse's simplistic theory, a good starting point would be "Phantoms in the Brain" by V.S. Ramachandran. Read the chapter about God and the limbic system. If you are really interested in temoral lobe seizures and want something in-depth, read "seized" by Eve LePlante. The fact is that people have radical experiences of God through temporal lobe seizures, and they are not due to a "healthy right temporal lobe", they are due to a scarred, damaged, and pathological one. We can destroy God and the angels by removing a chunk of the right temporal lobe. What this says about the existence of God and the angels is a subject for philosophical inquiry. Not only do these right temporal lobe seizures create a sense of beauty and divinity, they create all sorts of strange behavior like hypergraphia and libido alterations, and tremendous mood alterations. If you can catch the PBS special (which I cannot remember the name of) there is an interview with a right temporal lobe seizure patient of Ramachandran's that is very insightful. Morse's book, as I said is fine for those who already believe and want to be reinforced and comforted. It is horrible as a piece of persuasive material for those who are knowledgable about the brain. I give it 3 stars because it wasn't written for intellectuals, it was written to be a sensationalist primer in order to make Morse some more money. But look! Its already out of print. I wonder whats next. Maybe Morse will use his pediatrician credentials to start explaining the details of string theory with Paul Perry.
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Summary: Incredible and Insightful
Review: This is an insightful book that could only be produced by two people who have been on the cutting edge of Near Death research. Among the most interesting areas of exploration presented in this thin but comprehensive work is the notion that healing experiences and our communications with God and the Universe comes to us through our right temporal lobe. And, it is also implied that we can sensitize our right temporal lobe to better enhance communications with the divine. If you are interested in research that meld brain, mind and mysticism, you should certainly read this book.
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Summary: Scientific Approach to the Mystical
Review: This is one of the most enlightening books on mystical, or spiritual, experiences and their meanings I have read. The approach Dr. Morse takes is extremely humane, sensitive, and honest. He manages in an interesting and meaningful way to examine near-death experiences, healings, apparitions, and other unexplained phenomenon in terms of the human brain. It seems our brains may at times function in a particular way to connect us with realities we normally are not aware of. I had enjoyed reading Dr. Morse's previous books, where he related the stories of children's near-death experiences, and described the evidence of the transforming nature of these experiences. In this book, Dr. Morse goes much further in developing his theory of the importance of the right temporal lobe in allowing us to experience the external reality of these experiences. As a speech-language pathologist, I know a little something about the brain and how it works. The right hemisphere of the brain processes information very differently from the left. We have generally known a great deal more about the left hemisphere, which is where our language center is in most people. However, what Dr. Morse has to say about the right hemisphere and its possible role in NDEs and other experiences connecting us to a "universal memory", or mind, makes a great deal of sense, especially to anyone who has ever had even a minor extra-sensory type of experience. I especially enjoyed Dr. Morse's personal stories in this book. It was brave and honest, and made the book real to me. After all, one of the big questions raised to him has been, "What is the good in having a near-death experience, anyway?" I appreciated that Dr. Morse attempted to apply some of the lessons he learned to his own life. It made a poignant story.
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Summary: Scientific Approach to the Mystical
Review: This is one of the most enlightening books on mystical, or spiritual, experiences and their meanings I have read. The approach Dr. Morse takes is extremely humane, sensitive, and honest. He manages in an interesting and meaningful way to examine near-death experiences, healings, apparitions, and other unexplained phenomenon in terms of the human brain. It seems our brains may at times function in a particular way to connect us with realities we normally are not aware of. I had enjoyed reading Dr. Morse's previous books, where he related the stories of children's near-death experiences, and described the evidence of the transforming nature of these experiences. In this book, Dr. Morse goes much further in developing his theory of the importance of the right temporal lobe in allowing us to experience the external reality of these experiences. As a speech-language pathologist, I know a little something about the brain and how it works. The right hemisphere of the brain processes information very differently from the left. We have generally known a great deal more about the left hemisphere, which is where our language center is in most people. However, what Dr. Morse has to say about the right hemisphere and its possible role in NDEs and other experiences connecting us to a "universal memory", or mind, makes a great deal of sense, especially to anyone who has ever had even a minor extra-sensory type of experience. I especially enjoyed Dr. Morse's personal stories in this book. It was brave and honest, and made the book real to me. After all, one of the big questions raised to him has been, "What is the good in having a near-death experience, anyway?" I appreciated that Dr. Morse attempted to apply some of the lessons he learned to his own life. It made a poignant story.
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