Son, Father, Physician (Curriculum Vitae)
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Melvin Morse grew up in the suburbs of Washington DC, in Chevy Chase Maryland. He has five brothers and sisters. His father was a scientist for the National Bureau of Standards and his Mother a real estate broker and social activist. He called her the Lion of Liberalism. From his earliest days he remembered his mother working with Women’s Strike for Peace, Labor Union reform, and being very involved in the early days of civil rights. His mother was friends with Amelia Boynton. Bruce Boynton, the civil rights attorney who successfully sued the State of Virginia to permit desegregation of a local diner, was a frequent visitor at their home. One of the early highlights of his life was sitting behind Martin Luther King when King gave his famous “I have a dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial.
As a medical student, Dr. Morse always pursued his interests in consciousness research. During a neurology rotation at Johns Hopkins, he worked under the legendary Vernon Montcastle and cared for patients who had half their brains removed or split brain surgery. He assessed the effects such surgery had on consciousness, his first understanding that consciousness does not depend on brain function. He attended lectures by the early pioneers of functional neurogenesis. This is the revolutionary concept that all thoughts and experience changes our brain and our brain is capable of repairing itself.
Angela Ronson
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This led in turn to his research on patients such as Angela Ronson. She was in a coma for 7 years after a stroke destroyed 75% of her brain. Her consciousness rewired her damaged brain and she awoke from her coma with her personality, memories and sense of humor intact. I say "her consciousness rewired her brain" for the simple reason that there can be no other explanation from her full recovery from coma. Her case is a dramatic example that consciousness is not created by the brain, but rather uses the brain to interact with this reality. Here is a blog that I wrote about Angela (click here) This is Angela's Blog The Thoughtful Vegetable |
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After an internship at the University of California at San Francisco and a residency in Pediatrics at Seattle Children’s Hospital, he was in private practice of Pediatrics for over twenty years caring for three generations of patients. He retired in 2006 to concentrate on his consciousness research and for health concerns. He was a Professor of Pediatrics at both the University of Washington and the John Bastyr Naturopathic College. He lived a life filled with awards and accolades from others.
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“When man is filled with himself, there is no room for God” (Martin Buber)
"It wasn't until I was humbled and lost everything that I found God" - Dr. Morse
"It wasn't until I was humbled and lost everything that I found God" - Dr. Morse
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Dr. Morse had the privilege of caring for his mother in the last year of her life. He was at her bedside, when she awoke from a coma to stare at the ceiling and say "Incredible" and then lapsed back into come. She had Alzheimer’s Disease and passed at age 94 from natural causes. |
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TRUDY MORSE: AMAZING MOM
My Mom passed in August 2013. Before she died, she promised to leave me dimes to remind me of her love and that she is always with me. Dimes routinely appear in my life in places where there cannot ordinarily be dimes. He played the guitar for her while she was in a nursing home, especially a "I love you" song. When she passed, as he was sitting at her bedside, the nursing home residents gathered in the dining hall and sang the “I love you” song to her. Click here for Trudy Morse's near death experience. |
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He has five adopted children, Bridget, Colleen, Brett, Cody and Michaela, and one biological child, Melody. His son Cody posted on his Facebook page “My name is Cody Morse, I am the second adopted son of Dr. Melvin Morse. I, as well as so many other people, know my father to be an honest, loving man with the best intentions for everyone; utilizing knowledge and giving of himself to help others in need.”
His oldest daughter Bridget wrote to him, saying in part: “thank you for raising me to be a strong thoughtful person. Thank you for so many lessons in my life. Thank you for being an example of a loving husband, it enabled me to pick a great man to love and care for my children”. |
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“Our partner (our co-creator of the Universe) is notoriously difficult to follow, and even His best musicians are not always easy to follow.” _Hafiz
