by Dr. Don Morse
Don Morse devoted his entire life to science, accumulating graduate degrees in dentistry, psychology,
endodontology, microbiology, nutrition, and immunology, and eventually retiring Professor Emeritus at Temple
University. Along the way, he wrote hundreds of scientific articles and twelve books, seven of which were on
stress management. But in his mid-60's, he found himself up against something for which all his scientific training
had left him unprepared - death. Caught off guard by the unexpected deaths of a number of close friends and
relatives, and haunted by long-repressed memories of his own Near-Death Experience, Morse developed a stress
disorder - a nearly paralyzing and obsessive fear of death, which left him unable to concentrate, sleep, or eat, and
suffering from stress-induced physical symptoms such as abdominal cramps and headaches.
For a man who had devoted much of his professional life to writing and lecturing on stress management, this
anxiety was all the more disconcerting. Morse found that his most favorite, tried-and-true stress-management
tools, such as exercise and meditation, were no longer effective. Nor were methods such as avoidance and
distractions able to help him keep from thinking about the inevitable. The only way to counter his incapacitating
apprehensions about death, he realized, was to confront them head on.
Morse put his lifetime of scientific training to good use, dispassionately examining humanity's vast collection of
reports about death and the afterlife, resolved to determine what, if anything, awaits us after death. The sweep and
breadth of this work is unparalleled. Morse starts off his journey by exploring the wide spectrum of afterlife
phenomena being reported today, providing us with a remarkably detailed, comprehensive, and up-to-date study of
NDEs (Near-Death Experiences), OBEs (Out-Of-Body Experiences), ADCs (After Death Communications), PLRs
(Past-Life Regressions), as well as ghosts and apparitions, deathbed visions, dreams, seances, mediums, and
channeling. Morse then scrutinizes the diverse afterlife teachings of the major world religions, including those of
ancient Egypt and Greece, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism, Judaism, Kabbalah,
Gnostic Christianity, Modern Christianity, Islam, Sufism, Sikhism, and Bahai'ism. Morse then goes on to explore
more modern theories on death and the afterlife, such as the teachings of the Seventh-Day Adventists, the
Jehovah's Witnesses, the Christadelphians, the Unitarian Universalists, the Rosicrucians, the Freemasons, the
Golden Dawn, Theosophy, Swedenborgianism, Religious Science, Eckankar, Urantia, and Scientology, while also
considering the afterlife teachings of William Blake, Bo Yin Ra, Edgar Cayce, E.W. Dykes, Roel van de Meulen,
Bruce Moen, Alan Wolf, and my own "DivisionTheory" research into the binary soul doctrine.
As I was reading this opus, I became more and more proud to have a discussion of my own work included within
it, and more and more incredulous than no one had ever compiled such a thorough and fascinating study of
mankind's thoughts upon the afterlife before. This is a resource that should be on the shelf of anyone studying any
facet of any set of afterlife teachings, for Morse catalogues the entire rainbow of humanity's afterlife teachings,
revealing both the dignity and limitations of each, while also showing us, in the process, the true meaning of
scientific integrity. He does not preemptively assume that any of these reports, teachings, or theories are true or
false, nor does he dismiss or rationalize any away. Instead, he assesses each on its own merits, logically,
insightfully, brilliantly, all the while showing where and how they agree and disagree one with the other.
Finally, Morse presents his own personal theory of the afterlife, integrating the many different faces of death into an intriguing new vision of the journey that awaits us all. Through the eyes of a dedicated scientist, he examined humanity's many reports about death and the afterlife, and concluded there is indeed ample reason to believe in the soul's survival of death and the possibility of a positive afterlife. It seems that, whether it be "matter and antimatter", "male and female" or "science and religion", whenever two opposing natures successfully come together, the most powerful forces of the universe are unleashed, and magic happens. This book is one such example.
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