 FROM NEAR DEATH RESEARCH TO MEDIUMSHIP: A SCIENTIFIC JOURNEY Melvin L Morse MD www.isscusa.org My interest in mediumship is a natural extension of my 4-decade quest to answer a child’s question about his near-death experience: But was it real, Dr. Morse? Because if it was real, you got to tell all the old people.” Chris, age seven at the time of his extraordinary resuscitation from being underwater for 45 minutes after his family car flipped over a guard rail and plunged to the depths of an icy river below, comments on the most pressing question concerning reports that when we die, our consciousness persists. Can we trust these experiences to be “real”? Or are they simply neurochemical reactions within the brain at the point of death or fables told by those fortunate enough to survive near death to make sense of their experiences? Our prospective studies of survivors of cardiac arrest over a fifteen-year period at Seattle Children’s Hospital documented that the near-death experience is the dying experience and is not the result of medications, oxygen deprivation, or anxiety due to being intubated and ventilated in a scary Intensive Care Unit. We published these studies in the American Medical Association’s Pediatric Journals. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4003364/) Subsequent studies in adults have replicated our results. The next step in my quest to answer the question “Are near-death experiences real?” was to assess whether or not the timeless, spaceless domain, that survivors of clinical death tell us awaits us all, exists. One component of this domain in which consciousness persists despite the death of the body is that it contains all knowledge. Our research team demonstrated that a timeless, spaceless domain that contains all knowledge exists. This should not be surprising, as theoretical physicists such as John Wheeler have firmly stated that the universe is information embedded in a timeless, spaceless realm of existence. We documented that elite remote viewers trained in the military-controlled remote viewing protocol could access this all-information domain and return with specific information that they had no ordinary way of obtaining. At the same time, they could bend a stream of electrons with their minds for over 10 minutes.
The target was the Olympic stadium in Peking. Elite military remote viewer Paul H Smith, PhD was only given a target number and accurately drew it. As seen on the right, during the session, his mind successfully bent a stream of electrons emitted by the Psyleron device developed by engineers at Princeton University. Another aspect of the near-death experience that can be tested is the existence of conscious entities that exist in nature and are independent of the brain. Our research team received a Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies Challenge grant to ask mediums four specific questions about humanity’s spiritual progress in the past 160-plus years. We coded the questions as numbers to ensure that the mediums themselves did not know what the questions were. We received the same answers from all 19 mediums, even though some were located in the Midwest and others in Charleston, and none knew the actual questions.
The message from The Other Side, transmitted by the mediums, was strikingly similar to the message of the near-death experience: This reality is a school in which we are to learn highly specialized and complex lessons of love. There was one important caveat: The mediums added, urgently, that we must quickly learn to love or, as a species, face self-extinction. There is still much work to be done. In our book An Urgent Message, we comprehensively analyze the current scientific literature and how it applies to mediumship. We identify six things that must be true for mediumship to be real and discuss the current scientific understanding of each. We conclude that it is reasonable scientific speculation that mediumship is real and that our study is an important hypothesis-generating study that should result in more studies designed to develop a theory of mediumship. This is essential, as the history of science teaches us that new ideas are not accepted until the underlying scientific principles are elucidated. Most famously, Alfred Wegener developed the Continental Drift theory in 1910. He presented copious evidence that the continents had drifted apart and were once one giant land mass. In spite of his academic credentials and incontrovertible evidence, his theory was ridiculed and not accepted by his fellow scientists for a simple reason: he did not propose a credible mechanism for continental drift. It was not until the 1960s that plate tectonics was understood, which is the movement of giant slabs of rocks below the surface of the continents that are always in motion. Wegener’s theory of continental drift was finally accepted by the scientific community, sadly many decades after his death. Similarly, mediumship will not be accepted by the scientific community until the mechanisms of mediumship are understood. We have much work to do, and more scientific studies of mediumship is an essential next step. After all, as Chris told me many years ago, we must understand what happens to us when we die so we can tell all the old people.  Click on image to purchase
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