Dr. Melvin Morse is a practicing pediatrician who has spent 15 years studying the near-death experiences (NDEs) of children. With Paul Perry he wrote the bestsellers Closer to the Light and Transformed by the Light. In this fascinating work, Morse explores what NDEs reveal about mind-body interactions, human memory, and the part of the brain that communicates with God. He believes that the right temporal lobe or "God spot" is responsible for visions, psychic powers, and vivid spiritual experiences.
Using illustrative material from his own life-threatening disease along with the NDEs of hundreds of children, Morse demonstrates that our brains are linked to the universe in ways that can enhance our days and our doings. He contends that the God spot in our brains has a lot to do with many inexplicable happenings in our lives. He notes: "Universal memory is best understood as a morphic field, the shape or pattern of energy underlying everything that we call reality. It's similar to the programming that lies at the heart of the operation of computer software."
This universal pattern or collective mind can be a source of past life experiences, angels and ghosts, synchronicities, and non-local healing. Morse concludes with the ten "morphic ground rules" that can enhance our physical, mental, and spiritual health. The last chapter contains a paean to the boundless potential of intuition, another function of the right temporal lobe.