NDE Researcher Dr. Melvin Morse Arrested, Accused Of Waterboarding Daughter (Updated)

A Delaware pediatrician who is a recognized researcher in near-death experiences in children has been accused of holding his young daughter’s face under a faucet — an act he called waterboarding, according to officials — while the girl’s mother allegedly watched. Officials in Georgetown, Del., arrested Dr. Melvin Morse and his wife Pauline at their home on Monday and charged them with reckless endangerment, conspiracy and endangering the welfare of a child…

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Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations Surpass 400 PPM Milestone (Updated)

Atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide have reached a daily average above 400 parts per million. The last time atmospheric CO2 was at 400 parts per million was during the Pliocene Era, three to five million years ago, and humans didn’t exist. This was a time when global temperatures were substantially warmer than today, the Arctic was ice free, and sea levels were between 16 and 130 feet higher than they are today…

‘The Formula for Creating Heaven on Earth’ by David Sunfellow (Updated)

Many of you have heard about “The Formula for Creating Heaven on Earth” or “The Formula.” I introduced the idea in my two-part YouTube presentation called “How Near-Death Experiences Are Changing The World.” Essentially, I’ve been trying to identify the universal truths presented by near-death experiences and wrestle them into “a formula” that we can use to transform our lives. After a year of teaching classes in Sedona that have focused on applying NDE truths in our personal lives, I’ve finally created a chart that illustrates the key aspects of The Formula. Here it is: Version 1.0…

Belief In Biblical End-Times Stifling Climate Change Action In U.S.

The United States has failed to take action to mitigate climate change thanks in part to the large number of religious Americans who believe in biblical end-times…

New Movie: ‘Cloud Atlas’ (Updated)

“Cloud Atlas” explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave dramatically through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Written and directed by Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer, and Andy Wachowski, the film is based on the 2004 novel of the same name by David Mitchell. With an ensemble cast to cover the film’s multiple storylines, production began in September 2011 at Studio Babelsberg in Germany. The film is scheduled to be released on October 26, 2012. Mitchell’s novel won the British Book Awards Literary Fiction Award and the Richard & Judy Book of the Year award, and was short-listed for the 2004 Booker Prize, Nebula Award, Arthur C. Clarke Award, and other awards…

New NDE Series: ‘What It’s Like To Die’

Collinsville radio producer and announcer Ryan Wiggins is on a quest to answer the age-old question: What is it like to die? Wiggins isn’t trying to answer that question from first-hand experience. He’s on a mission to identify people who have experienced death and came back to life. And he’s producing a show called “What It’s Like To Die,” to capture those experiences…

New UFO Documentary: ‘Sirius’ (Updated)

’Sirius,’ reportedly the highest documentary crowd-funding raise in history, explores UFO and ET visitations and “the advanced, clean, and alternative energy technology that’s getting them here”. The film debutes April 22.

TED Censors Alternative Speakers (Updated)

TED has removed the license of TEDxWestHollywood for their planned “Brother, Can You Spare a Paradigm?” event, says the TEDxWestHollywood blog. The takedown was only a couple of weeks before the April 14 event (and after they had spent more than a year preparing). In an email to Suzanne Taylor, the organizer of TEDxWestHollywood, a representative of TED outlined the objections: “And when we look at your speaker line-up, we see several people who promote — as fact — theories that are well outside what most scientists would accept as credible. … We disallow speakers who use the language of science to claim they have proven the truth of ideas that are speculative and which have failed to gain significant scientific acceptance.” So which specific speakers does TED object to? “The names of note they wanted us to qualify for them were Marianne Williamson, Russell Targ, Larry Dossey, and Marilyn Schlitz”…

All Things Integral (Updated)

Articles, books, websites, social networks, resource pages, video hubs, and more concerning all aspects of the integral movement.

Gabby Reece On Marriage

In her new book, “My Foot Is Too Big for the Glass Slipper,” beach volleyball star Gabrielle Reece opens up about her relationship with surfer husband Laird Hamilton. Reece talks about divorce, marriage, sex, relationships with others, and how she used the idea of being of service to her husband and children to save her marriage…

15-Year French Study: Bras Hurt More Than Help

Women have long been told that a good bra can help support the chest, relieve back pain and prevent sagging. However, a new 15-year French study reveals the opposite: bras do little to reduce back pain and, over time, they can actually make breasts sag even more…

New Book: ‘ The Essence of Religions’

The author of The Essence of Religions, Christophor Coppes, compares near-death experiences to the five major world religions. Coppes gives a compelling argument that many characteristics of these religions’ view of the afterlife are analogous to the life-changing visions reported by those who have undergone an NDE. But he concludes that although the essence of these beliefs of the major religions can be found in NDEs, not all of the positive elements of an NDE experience can necessarily be found in the religions. The Essence of Religions examines the major world religions with an eye to their positive aspects as well as their contradictions and fixations…

Memory Study: Near-Death Experiences More Vivid Than Real Life

Long after a near-death experience, people recall the incident more vividly and emotionally than real and false memories, new research suggests. Even years later, the near-death experiences seemed hyperreal. In fact, they were remembered more clearly and emotionally than all other types of memories…

Must Watch: ‘Kumare: The True Story of a False Prophet’

Growing up in New Jersey, Vikram Gandhi was a typical American kid who resented the way his family tried to enforce Hindu beliefs and practices. He found it ironic that Americans began to popularize gurus and yoga just at the time he was growing away from such things. On a trip to India, he says, he found that “real” gurus were no more real than the American frauds who copied them.

That led him into the deliberate deception that he filmed in “Kumare.” He grew a long beard and a pony-tail, exchanged his shoes for sandals, switched his slacks and suits to flowing orange robes, and started carrying an ornate walking stick. Then he moved to Arizona, hired an expert to teach him yoga and a PR woman to promote him as a guru, and began to attract followers in meetings at shopping malls, community centers and around the swimming pools of his affluent clients. His accent was modeled on the way his grandmother spoke English. His teachings were deliberate gibberish: talk of inner blue lights, “finding the guru within,” and chants of fabricated mantras.

Concealing his true identity from everyone he meets, Kumare forges profound and spiritual connections with people from all walks of life. At the same time, in the absurdity of living as an entirely different person, Vikram, the filmmaker, is forced to confront difficult questions about his own identity. At the height of his popularity, Kumare unveils his true identity to a core group of disciples who are knee-deep in personal transformation…

Jesus (Updated)

This page includes Jesus-related links to news articles, special reports, books, movies, videos, modern Jesus scholarship, The Sayings Gospel Q, and more…

Anita Moorjani Comes To Sedona! (Updated)

Near-Death Experiencer & New York Times Bestselling Author Anita Moorjani will be speaking in Sedona, Arizona on March 23rd, 2013, at the Sedona Creative Life Center…

Dr. Eben Alexander: The Easter Question

Dr. Eben Alexander writes:

“More than ever since my near death experience, I consider myself a Christian — though one who knows that God loves all of His children, including those whose faith is expressed in traditions different from my own… Any pastor will tell you that the single concept that separates the wheat (that is, the real believers) from the chaff (those who are Christians only in name), is whether a person accepts that what Christian tradition says happened on Easter Morning really happened. The entire force of the Christian message can be pushed into that moment when the rock of the cave rolled aside and Jesus — the same and yet not the same Jesus whom his mother had watched die on the cross just two days before — stepped out once more into common daylight. That he had, in fact, overcome death.

“Now, I can tell you that if someone had asked me, in the days before my NDE, what I thought of this story, I would have said that it was lovely. But it remained just that — a story. To say that the physical body of a man who had been brutally tortured and killed could simply get up and return to the world a few days later is to contradict every fact we know about the universe. It wasn’t simply an unscientific idea. It was a downright anti-scientific one.

“But it is an idea that I now believe. Not in a lip-service way. Not in a dress-up-it’s-Easter kind of way. I believe it with all my heart, and all my soul…”

The Tiny House Movement (Updated)

All about “The Tiny House Movement” — websites, blogs, news stories, newsletters, books, interviews, videos…

Listening to Music Increases Immunity, Reduces Stress

Before surgery, listening to music is more effective at reducing anxiety than prescription drugs, report researchers. In a large-scale review of 400 research papers about the neurochemistry of music, researchers have shown that playing and listening to music has clear benefits for both mental and physical health…

Reality Show Searching For Reincarnated Children

A Los Angeles production company is currently holding a nationwide casting call for children who claim to have, or have had, past life memories for a new reality series, “Ghost Inside My Child,” scheduled to air on the Bio Channel later this year…

Universal Studios To Make Movie About NDEr Eben Alexander

Universal Studios plans to make a movie of Dr. Eben Alexander’s bestselling book “Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife”…

Documentary: ‘Hungry For Change’ (Updated – FREE Online Screening March 21st)

A Documentary Film About Creating Lasting Weight Loss, Abundant Energy and Vibrant Health…

New Drugs Could Help People Live To 150 Years

Drugs that could combat ageing and help people to live to 150-years-old may be available within five years, following landmark research. Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline has been testing the resveratrol-based medications on patients suffering with medical conditions including cancer, diabetes and heart disease…

Whole Foods Announces Mandatory GMO Labeling By 2018

In a huge victory for the alternative media and grassroots activism, Whole Foods announced on Friday that it would require GMO labels on all products by 2018. This announcement deals a significant blow to Monsanto, DuPont and all the GMO supporters who wanted consumers to remain ignorant about what they’re eating…

TED: ‘Ron Finley: A Guerrilla Gardener in South Central LA’

Ron Finley plants vegetable gardens in South Central LA — in abandoned lots, traffic medians, along the curbs. Why? For fun, for defiance, for beauty and to offer some alternative to fast food in a community where “the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys.”

Was Mother Teresa’s Humanitarian Image ‘A Myth’?

A collection of reports that accuse Mother Teresa of failing to be the humanitarian saint she was widely perceived to be. The allegations include accepting money from corrupt sources, keeping secret bank accounts, misusing millions of dollars in donations (money that could have been used to alleviate poverty or improve the conditions of her hospices was used, instead, to open new convents, increase missionary work, and fund other Vatican projects), refusing to help the needy when they approached the sisters at the wrong time according to the prescribed schedule, discouraging sisters from seeking medical training to deal with the illnesses they encountered (with the justification that God empowers the weak and ignorant), the imposition of “unjust” punishments on sisters (such as being transferred away from their friends), and keeping sisters in check by prohibiting the reading of secular books and newspapers, and emphasizing obedience over independent thinking and problem-solving… This post also includes Time Magazine’s August 2007 article on “Mother Teresa’s Crisis of Faith.”

The Dark Science of Addictive Junk Food

The public and the food companies have known for decades now that sugary, salty, fatty foods are not good for us in the quantities that we consume them. So why are the diabetes and obesity and hypertension numbers still spiraling out of control? It’s not just a matter of poor willpower on the part of the consumer and a give-the-people-what-they-want attitude on the part of the food manufacturers. Instead, there has been a conscious effort — taking place in labs and marketing meetings and grocery-store aisles — to get people hooked on foods that are convenient and inexpensive…

Nazi Ghettos, Slave Labor Sites, Brothels, Concentration Camps & Killing Factories

As early as 1933, at the start of Hitler’s reign, the Third Reich established about 110 camps specifically designed to imprison some 10,000 political opponents and others. As Germany invaded and began occupying European neighbors, the use of camps and ghettos was expanded to confine and sometimes kill not only Jews but also homosexuals, Gypsies, Poles, Russians and many other ethnic groups in Eastern Europe. The camps and ghettos varied enormously in their mission, organization and size, depending on the Nazis’ needs. When the research began in 2000, Dr. Megargee said he expected to find perhaps 7,000 Nazi camps and ghettos, based on postwar estimates. But the numbers kept climbing — first to 11,500, then 20,000, then 30,000, and now 42,500. The numbers astound: 30,000 slave labor camps; 1,150 Jewish ghettos; 980 concentration camps; 1,000 prisoner-of-war camps; 500 brothels filled with sex slaves; and thousands of other camps used for euthanizing the elderly and infirm, performing forced abortions, “Germanizing” prisoners or transporting victims to killing centers…

Army Deploying $2.8M Mobile 3D Printing Labs

For the first time, the Army is deploying special scientists and self-contained, mobile laboratories — 3D Printing Labs — to the warzone capable of designing and producing problem-solving inventions for soldiers operating in remote outposts in Afghanistan…

Lack of Sleep ‘Switches Off’ Genes

One week of bad sleep can “switch off” hundreds of genes and raise the risk of a host of illnesses including obesity and heart disease, scientists claim…

New Book: ‘Erasing Death’

Dr. Sam Parnia, a critical care doctor and director of resuscitation research at the Stony Brook University School of Medicine, studies what these people experience in that period after their heart stops and before they’re resuscitated. This includes visions such as bright lights and out-of-body experiences. In his new book Erasing Death: The Science That Is Rewriting the Boundaries Between Life and Death, Parnia examines the experiences patients describe, but whereas much discussion around the experience of death has been philosophical or personal, Parnia is looking at the subject scientifically…

The Sitting Time Bomb (Updated)

We all know by now that being inactive is unhealthy. Studies of daily movement patterns, though, show that your typical modern exerciser, even someone who runs, subsequently sits for hours afterward, often moving less over all than on days when he or she does not work out. The health consequences are swift, pervasive and punishing…

‘Shadow Effect’ Author Debbie Ford Tells Oprah She Has Cancer (Updated)

Debbie Ford, the co-writer of “The Shadow Effect” with Deepak Chopra and Marianne Williamson and “The Dark Side of the Light Chasers” tells Oprah that she has cancer…

Germany’s Great Church Sell-Off

Dwindling church attendance and dire financial straits are forcing the Catholic and Protestant Churches in Germany to sell off church buildings en masse. Some are demolished, while others are turned into restaurants or indoor rock climbing centers…

How Technology Threatens Intimacy

Many of us may be turning away from close relationships. Studies show that we’re spending increasing amounts of time playing video games and surfing the web instead of hanging out with friends and neighbors, so much so that some researchers have even suggested that technological isolation is at least one contributing factor to the decline in marriage and committed long-term relationships. All of which means that our capacity to hide in addictive technologies could be turning more and more of us into intimacy-phobes…

World Economic Forum Ponders Consequences Of Contact With Alien Life

The discovery of alien life or Earth-like planets and the implications to the world was a crucial item on the agenda at the annual World Economic Forum, or WEF, in Davos, Switzerland…

Why Seventh-Day Adventists Live Longer, Happier, Healthier Lives

In one idyllic community in southern California, Adventists live 4 to 7 years longer — and more healthily and happily — than the rest of the country. A look at their diet, lifestyle, and philosophy…

iDoctor: Could A Smartphone Be The Future Of Medicine?

One of the world’s top physicians, Dr. Eric Topol, has a prescription that could improve your family’s health and make medical care cheaper. The cardiologist claims that the key is the smartphone. Topol has become the foremost expert in the exploding field of wireless medicine. Dr. Nancy Snyderman reports…

40 Years Later, The True Scale of U.S. Atrocities in Vietnam (Updated)

On March 16, 1968, between 347 and 504 unarmed Vietnamese civilians were gunned down by members of the U.S. Army in what became known as the My Lai Massacre. The U.S. government has maintained that atrocities like this were isolated incidents in the conflict. Nick Turse says otherwise. In his new book, Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam, Turse argues that the intentional killing of civilians was quite common in a war that claimed 2 million civilian lives, with 5.3 million civilians wounded and 11 million refugees.

Multiple Vaccine Doses Have Caused 145,000 Child Deaths In Past 20 Years

The recommended childhood vaccination schedule has changed dramatically over the years, with children now receiving upwards of 30 vaccines, including multiple combination vaccines, before the age of six. And in many cases, doctors and nurses administer half a dozen or more vaccines all at once during a single visit to make sure children get all these shots and to save time. But according to data compiled from the government’s Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS), as many as 145,000 children or more have died throughout the past 20 years as a result of this multiple vaccine dose approach, and few parents are aware of this shocking fact. In a study recently published in the journal Human & Experimental Toxicology, the team found that the more vaccines a child receives during a single doctor visit, the more likely he or she is to suffer a severe reaction or even die. According to Heidi Stevenson from Gaia Health, for each additional vaccine a child receives, his or her chance of death increases by an astounding 50 percent — and with each additional vaccine dose, chances of having to be hospitalized for severe complications increase two-fold…

Piers Morgan Gets Sick After Flu Shot

This post includes two videos: In the first video, Piers receives a flu shot from Dr. Ox during which Piers says that this is his “first ever flu shot” and Doctor Oz declares that you cannot get the flu from the flu shot. In the second video, Piers, struggling with flu-like symptoms, talks with country western singer Dwight Yoakam. Piers asks Dwight if he has any advice about how to deal with a sore throat. Dwight answers “don’t get a flu shot”. Piers jokingly responds “we’re both doing the math; we both saw him (Dr. Oz) put that thing in my arm and within ten days, I’ve been struck down…”

GravityLight: Light for the Developing World

As part of a research initiative on how to harness off-grid energy for low-power electronics, a pair of U.K.-based designers created a lamp that uses gravity to generate light…

NDE: U.S. Senator Mark Kirk Describes Encounter With Three Angels

Illinois Senator Mark Kirk, 52, lost consciousness when he suffered a debilitating stroke in late January 2012. He also had a near-death experience. There was no white light, and no tunnel. But there were three angels with New York accents asking him if he would like to come with them…

Carla Golden: ‘If You Are Still Drinking, You’re Not Done Yet’ (Updated)

Carla Golden writes: “I’ve been crafting this blog post for months. Why so long? Because I’m scared to post it. That’s how I know I must post it. It’s going to be a long post and it’s not for everyone. It’s only for those who wish to lead a self-honest, clean life. OK….here it goes….”

Survey: Vaccinated Children Five Times More Prone To Disease Than Unvaccinated Children

An ongoing study out of Germany comparing disease rates among vaccinated and unvaccinated children points to a pretty clear disparity between the two groups as far as illness rates are concerned. As reported by the group Health Freedom Alliance, children who have been vaccinated according to official government schedules are up to five times more likely to contract a preventable disease than children who developed their own immune systems naturally without vaccines…

Publishing World Cashes In On Near-Death Experiences

Folks have been going to heaven with amazing regularity lately. They look around — one even sat on Jesus’ lap — then come back to report on the trip. It’s a lucrative journey. Three of these tales have ascended to heavenly heights on USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books list recently, and more are on the way…

The Rise of ‘Nones’ (People Who Don’t Identify With Any Religion)

In October, the Pew Research Center released a study, ‘Nones’ on the Rise, that takes a closer look at the 46 million people who answered none to the religion question in 2012. According to Pew, one-fifth of American adults have no religious affiliation, a trend that has for years been on the rise…

U.S. Vaccine Court Awards Millions to Two Children With Autism

The federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, better known as “vaccine court,” has just awarded millions of dollars to two children with autism for “pain and suffering” and lifelong care of their injuries, which together could cost tens of millions of dollars. The government did not admit that vaccines caused autism, at least in one of the children. Both cases were “unpublished,” meaning information is limited, and access to medical records and other exhibits is blocked. Much of the information presented here comes from documents found at the vaccine court website…

WakaWaka Power

WakaWaka Power is a super efficient personal solar power station that charges your iPhone and any other smartphone or shines 40 hours of excellent reading light, all on just one day of solar charge. A lifesaver for those without electricity. For every WakaWaka Power sold during this pre-sale campaign the creators of WakaWaka will give two WakaWaka Lights (lights only) to Haiti, where 370,000 people still live in makeshift shelters without electricity…