SPIRITUAL SCIENTIFIC: ACADEMIA WITHOUT WALLS

WHO WE ARE

Melvin L Morse MD FAAP graduated with academic honors from George Washington University School of Medicine. He interned in Pediatrics at the University of California at San Francisco, and then completed a residency in Pediatrics at Seattle Children's Hospital. He has a two year fellowship in Hematology/Oncology studying brain tumors and leukemia, also at Seattle Children's Hospital He has a one year fellowship in Behavioral Pediatrics.  His near death research was the result of his winning a National Service Research Award.

 PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

1. He was voted by his peers as being one of America's Best Doctors, from 1995-2007 (when he retired from the University of Washington) He now concentrates on his research and is in part-time practice in Lower Slower Delaware.

2. He helped found the Pediatric Interim Care Center, a nationally aclaimed center for the treatment of Cocaine Addicted Infants.

3. He helped found the Autism Spectrum Research Clinic, in Renton, Washington, a small diagnostic clinic for autism, which coordinated the involvement an occupational therapist, speech pathologist, developmental specialist and Pediatrician in one visit, to create a therapeutic roadmap for the patient.

4. He helped set up the Pediatric Residency Training Program at Valley Medical Center, and has won numerous teaching awards.

5. He had a solo private practice of Pediatrics in the Seattle, Washington area and had the privilege of caring for 2 and at times 3 generations of patients. His practice involved autism, complex behavioral disorders and developmental disabiities.

6. He worked for the Ashley House system, which are residential care facilies for chronically ill and dying children, in the Northwest.

7. He was one of the first physicians for Airlift Northwest, an air transport service flying critically ill children to Seattle Children's Hospital from remote locations in Alaska and the Northwest, and in his time had transported more critically ill patients than any other physician in the Northwest.           

8. He was an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington for 20 years, retiring in 2007 to concentrate on research and writing.

9. He has written numerous articles in the medical literature, primarily on near death experiences.

10. He published the first description of a child's near death experience in the medical literature.

11. He has published the only study of near death experiences in children in the medical literature, and one of the first case controlled prospective studies of near death experiences.

12. He published the Seattle Study, the largest study of the transformational effects of near death experiences in adults.

13. He was funded by the National Cancer Institute for his near death studies, and is an acknowledged expert on death and dying issues.

14. His work on near death experiences have been published in the American Medical Association's Pediatric Journal AJDC. Contemporary Pediatrics devoted an entire issue to his research and its implications for health care practionners.

15. He was one of the early faculty members of Bastyr University, one of the world's largest Naturopathic Universities, in Seattle, Washington. He taught Pediatrics and trained students for 20 years.

WHO WE ARE

(Download chapters of the books in the "My lectures, books, and articles section)

Dr. Morse's first book, Closer to the Light, was an international best seller and is published in 38 countries and 19 languages. It explored the near death experiences of children.

 His best-selling second book, Transformed by the Light , is a long-term follow up of these children as adults, and documents the physical and psychological transformations resulting from near death experiences.

 His third book, Parting Visions, documents the entire range of spiritual visions associated with death and dying, including premonitions of death and after death visitations. It focuses on how we can use these experiences to help us to understand death, grief, and the often overlooked spiritual miracles in everyday life. 

 His fourth book, Where God Lives: Paranormal Science and How Our Brains Are Connected to the Universe, presents a comprehensive new scientific understanding of how the brain can resonate with energetic patterns of the universe to permit communications with the dead, viewing at a distance with the mind, past life memories, premonitions of the future, and to establish a relationship with a "god" (as the children call it) or quantum non-locality in our daily lives.

He has two daughters, Anna, age 7, and Melody Grace, (age 2). They are both joyous rainbows of light. He also has two estranged teenagers, an angry ex-wife, and two adult children who never speak to him, one who says "you are not my Dad". He also has an gifted and loving adult daughter and two extraordinary grandchildren, Baby Charlotte, and Tristan. And he has the world's greatest son-in-law.  We include this to emphasize that we are real people, with real problems. We have road tested in our own sometimes chaotic lives everything we teach in our workshops.

(This is an award given to me by my stepdaughter Ashley, age 15.) 

He is a proud Phillies fan and "bleeds green" in the fall and winter.