I feel strongly that we are biologically connected with something the physicists call "nonlocal" reality, and that it is within this nonlocal reality that afterdeath communications can occur.

I do not often hear from parents that mediums or workshops resulted in the beginning of healing grief. I often hear how parents themselves in one manner or another achieved communications with their children who died, and I believe it can occur.

If you are not a subscriber, please email Jolene and ask her to send you vol 4. Also, I encourage you to check out Judy gugenheim's site after-death.com (its one of my links)as I am certain she has insights on this issue. I am also going to ask her to post a reply on this message board.

Message 2:

In order to maximize the possibility of after death communications, you have to somehow trigger your brain into accessing nonlocal reality. Since this is an area of the brain we rarely use, often this takes practice.

One method is to consciously induce the dreamy half awake half asleep state which happens right before we go to sleep. Often these "hypnagognic" hallucinations, as they are scientifically called, are encounters with people we have loved who have died.

Another technique is to learn to lucid dream, and then learn to consciously control the content of these lucid dreams.

For some odd reason, these experiences are often dismissed as mere hallucinations of a grieving mind. This is why I spend so much of Vol 4 going over the biology of these experiences. Far from being hallucinations of a grieving mind, these experiences involve the specific activation of a specialized area in our brain devoted to interpretting sensory input from nonlocal reality.

Here's what I mean by this: If you press on your eyeballs, you will see chaotic lights and colors. These are not real "visions" of local reality, but are meaningless hallucinations. If, however, patterns of light trigger a chemical cascade at the back of your eye, which ultimately is processed by the elaborate circuitry of our visual system and finally made into an image in a specialized area of our brain called the occipital lobe, we call this "seeing" and have no doubt as the reality of what we see.

So it is with the complex neurological circuitry of spiritual visions. The evidence of the biological basis of spiritual visions is so strong, on so many different levels, that it is incomprehensible that we would have evolved such a complex brain function unless there really was a nonlocal reality that it is processing input from. And, surprise, surprise, the physicists and mathematicians tell us that there is, in fact, a nonlocal reality to communicate with.

This is a lengthy way of saying that all human beings have the biological ability to communicate with people who we love who have died.

There are two huge hurdles though:
1. We don't believe the communications are real. (hence the often heavy emphasis on brain biology in the newsletter)

2. We are not used to using this area of the brain, and even knowing how to use it.

This is what my new book, and newsletter are all about. I want to emphasize again that you are not bothering me at all, but you have rather set my brain on fire trying to understand the best way to answer your question.

I have never lost a child, and what little praying I do, is mostly involved with praying I never do. I have the luxury that near death research is just theoretical for me. Your letter reminded me of the urgency and immediate applications of this research.

Melvin Morse