Searching For Eternity : A Scientist’s Spiritual Journey to Overcome Death Anxiety

398 Pages·2000·25.55 MB·English

by  Dr. Don Morse

Searching
F or Eternity•
•
A Scientist's Spiritual
J ourney To Overcome
D eath Anxiety
by Dr. Don Morse
Searching For Eternity:
A Scientist's Spiritual Journey To
Overcome Death Anxiety
© 2000 by Don Morse
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Also by Dr. Don Morse
Non-Fiction
Clinical Endodontology
Stress and Relaxation
(with M. Lawrence Furst)
Stress for Success
(with M. Lawrence Furst)
Women Under Stress
(with M. Lawrence Furst)
The Women's World
(with M. Lawrence Furst)
Nutrition, Stress, and Aging
(with Robert Pollack)
The Stress-Free, Anti-Aging Diet
(with Robert Pollack)
Electronic Pharmacy of the Mind
Fiction
Deadly Reaction
Eye To Eye
Lethal Penetration
D edication
This book is dedicated to Diane:
my soul-mate, advisor, best friend, and eternal wife.
Searching for Eternity. Photo — Dr. Carlos Koloffon
About The Author
D r. Don Morse is Professor Emeritus at Temple University in
Philadelphia. He has graduate degrees in dentistry, endodontics (root
canal therapy), microbiology, clinical psychology, and clinical nutrition.
Dr. Morse has been the principal investigator in many research projects
involving hypnosis, meditation, acupuncture, and brain wave synchro­
nizers (BWS).
Dr. Morse has written over 200 scientific articles and twelve
books, including 9 non-fiction books — 7 of which are on stress and its
management. His latest is Electronic Pharmacy of the Mind: Use of Brain
Wave Synchronizers and Other Relaxation Methods to Control Stress. He has
also written three medical mystery novels (Deadly Reaction, Eye to Eye and
Lethal Penetration).
In addition to Searching for Eternity: A Scientist's Spiritual Journey
to Overcome Death Anxiety, two other books are currently being com­
pleted by Dr. Morse: It's A Zoo Out There is a humorous, illustrated animal
saying book (with Dr. Marvin Herring). A fourth medical mystery novel,
Malpractice, is about to be submitted for publication.
Dr. Morse was President of the Philadelphia Society for Clinical
Hypnosis for two years and was Editor-in-Chief of The International
Journal of Psychosomatics for ten years. He is presently Editor-in-Chief of
The Journal of Religion and Psychical Research. Dr. Morse has given courses
in hypnosis, meditation, BWS, relaxation therapy, stress management,
and dealing with death anxiety throughout the United States and in 28
other countries.
He is happily married to Diane (for 43 years), has three children,
Andrew, Brian and Caryn and four grandchildren, Danielle, Justin,
Geoffrey and Monica. Dr. Morse and Diane live in beautiful Southern
New Jersey.
He can be reached through the publisher by mail or email:
[email protected].
Table Of Contents
Acknowledgments...................................................................................1
What Dr. Morse's Contemporaries Have Said About
Searching For Eternity................................................................3
Deadly Quotations..................................................................................7
Foreword by Raymond A. Moody.......................................................9
Preface by Peter Novak........................................................................11
Introduction...............................................................................13
Chapter One — Death Anxiety..............................................17
Chapter Two — My Near-Death Experience......................31
Chapter Three — Near-Death Experiences.........................35
Chapter Four — Out-Of-Body Experiences........................77
Chapter Five — Apparitions, Visions, Dreams, Seances
and Medium Reports....................................................89
Chapter Six — Reincarnation and Past Life
Regressions...................................................................125
Chapter Seven — Immortality..............................................147
Chapter Eight — God.............................................................155
Chapter Nine — God and the Origin of the Universe... 167
Chapter Ten — God and the Origin of Life.....................185
Chapter Eleven — The Afterlife in Religions - Part 1: '
Ancient Egyptian, Greek, Hindu, Zoroastrianism,
& Buddhism............................................................197
Chapter Twelve — The Afterlife in Religions - Part 2:
The Judeo-Christian & Islamic Perspectives,
Sikhism and Bahai'sm...........................................215
Chapter Thirteen — Recent Concepts of the Afterlife -
Part 1: Ideas From Groups & Organizations......265
Chapter Fourteen — Recent Concepts of the Afterlife -
Part 2: Complex Ideas From Individuals............285
Chapter Fifteen — A Personal Concept of the
Afterlife......................................................................343
Chapter Sixteen — A Hopeful Outlook..........................367
Afterword............................................................................................379
Chapter Notes and References......................................................281
Index.....................................................................................................413

Acknowledgements
This book was made possible by the support of the following
people: Dr. Paul Rosch, Editor of Stress Medicine, who encouraged me to
write the article, "Confronting Existential Anxiety," which became the
stimulus for the present book; Dr. Raymond Moody, for his enthusiastic
praise for that article and subsequent inspiration for the current book; Dr.
Berthold Schwarz, for his friendship throughout the years and informa­
tion on psi phenomena; Dr. Simcha Pauli Raphael, for information about
the afterlife; Rabbis Richard Simon and Mordechai Rhine, for input on
Kabballah and spirituality; Dr. Rabia Lynn Clark and Boyce Batey, for
information on past life regressions and reincarnation; Dr. Marvin
Herring, for his insightful cartoons; Dr. Carlos Koloffon, for the inspira­
tional photograph on the next page, and Gary Tomchuk and Mike
Bortnicker for their helpful suggestions. Special thanks to: Carol Hupping,
for her excellent editorial help and input; Dr. Edwin Castillo, for his
support through trying times, my agent, Bob Silverstein, for his relent­
less pursuit of excellence, and Dr. Greg Little, for his input on many
aspects of psi phenomena and spirituality.
About The Illustrations
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