The Institute for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
"ACADEMIA WITHOUT WALLS"
"The next Paradigm does not deny materialism. It simply says consciousness came first."
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5268 G Nicholson Lane #277
Kensington, MD 20895
About Us
We are deeply honored to now be
The Institute for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
Founded by Charles Tart in 1977
A Tax Free Educational and Research Institution
Institute for the Scientific Study of Consciousness is a non-profit organization. ISSC is a non-profit California corporation, tax exempt under the 501(3)(c) and 170(b)(1)(A)(vi) sections of the Internal Revenue Service code. We do not pay ourselves salaries. All the money we collect through selling our books and donations goes to funding our research.
WHO WE ARE
Melvin L Morse MD FAAP graduated with academic honors from George Washington University School of Medicine. He interned in Pediatrics at the University of California at San Francisco, and then completed a residency in Pediatrics at Seattle Children's Hospital. He has a two year fellowship in Hematology/Oncology studying brain tumors and leukemia, also at Seattle Children's Hospital He has a one year fellowship in Behavioral Pediatrics, followed by two years of post-doctoral training in neuroscience at the University of Washington. His near death research was the result of his winning a National Service Research Award. He is a recognized expert in Hospice Care and death and dying issues.
PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
1. He was voted by his peers as being one of America's Best Doctors, from 1995-2007 (when he retired from the University of Washington) He now concentrates on his research and is in part-time practice in Lower Slower Delaware.
2. He helped found the Pediatric Interim Care Center, a nationally acclaimed center for the treatment of Cocaine Addicted Infants.
3. He helped found the Autism Spectrum Research Clinic, in Renton, Washington, a small diagnostic clinic for autism, which coordinated the involvement an occupational therapist, speech pathologist, developmental specialist and Pediatrician in one visit, to create a therapeutic road map for the patient.
4. He helped set up the Pediatric Residency Training Program at Valley Medical Center, and has won numerous teaching awards.
5. He had a solo private practice of Pediatrics in the Seattle, Washington area and had the privilege of caring for 2 and at times 3 generations of patients. His practice involved autism, complex behavioral disorders and developmental disabilities.
6. He worked for the Ashley House system, which are residential care facilities for chronically ill and dying children, in the Northwest.
7. He was one of the first physicians for Airlift Northwest, an air transport service flying critically ill children to Seattle Children's Hospital from remote locations in Alaska and the Northwest, and in his time had transported more critically ill patients than any other physician in the Northwest.
8. He was an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington for 20 years, retiring in 2007 to concentrate on research and writing.
9. He has written numerous articles in the medical literature, primarily on near death experiences.
10. He published the first description of a child's near death experience in the medical literature.
11. He has published the only study of near death experiences in children in the medical literature, and one of the first case controlled prospective studies of near death experiences.
12. He published the Seattle Study, the largest study of the transformational effects of near death experiences in adults.
13. He was funded by the National Cancer Institute for his near death studies, and is an acknowledged expert on death and dying issues.
14. His work on near death experiences have been published in the American Medical Association's Pediatric Journal AJDC. Contemporary Pediatrics devoted an entire issue to his research and its implications for health care practitioners.
15. He was one of the early faculty members of Bastyr University, one of the world's largest Naturopathic Universities, in Seattle, Washington. He taught Pediatrics and trained students for 20 years, both from the University of Washington School of Medicine and Naturopathic physicians.
WHO WE ARE
1. Melvin L Morse MD FAAP
2. Angela Ronson (Researcher, Investigator, Spiritual Survivor)
3. John Peter Thompson
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Dr. Morse's first book, Closer to the Light, was an international best seller and is published in 38 countries and 19 languages. It explored the near death experiences of children.
His best-selling second book, Transformed by the Light , is a long-term follow up of these children as adults, and documents the physical and psychological transformations resulting from near death experiences.
His third book, Parting Visions, documents the entire range of spiritual visions associated with death and dying, including premonitions of death and after death visitations. It focuses on how we can use these experiences to help us to understand death, grief, and the often overlooked spiritual miracles in everyday life. 
His fourth book, Where God Lives: Paranormal Science and How Our Brains Are Connected to the Universe, presents a comprehensive new scientific understanding of how the brain can resonate with energetic patterns of the universe to permit communications with the dead, viewing at a distance with the mind, past life memories, premonitions of the future, and to establish a relationship with a "god" (as the children call it) or quantum non-locality in our daily lives.
He has a daughter Melody Grace, (age 7). She is a joyous rainbows of light. He also has two gifted and loving married adult daughters and two extraordinary grandchildren, Charlotte, and Tristan.
His daughter Michaela is a sophomore at Eastern Washington State. She is wise beyond her years. Brett is nearly 25 and a Machinist for the Genie Corporation. Both of them are sources of inspiration and often my best teachers. Cody is 21 and making his way in life, which is a significant accomplishment in these troubled times.
Dr. Morse is a real person with real problems, not some sort of spiritual or scientific guru. He has road tested in his own sometimes chaotic life everything he teach in this website and various workshops.
He is a proud Phillies fan and "bleeds green" in the fall and winter.
5268 G Nicholson Lane #277
Kensington, MD 20895