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Sunday May 11,2008

Healing power of spiritual visions

by Melvin Morse, MD

I am a Pediatrician who has studied near death experiences for 15 years. I have learned that they teach us that there are an entire range of visions around death and dying which can help to heal grief.

A woman once came to visit me from New York. I was amazed to see her as I live in Seattle. I asked her how I could help her, and she replied "it has been 2041 days since my son died. I have not slept more than four hours a night since then". I felt a horrible pit of despair in my stomach. I could only think about my own five healthy children, and I felt like a fraud even pretending that I have anything to offer this woman.

I asked her to tell me more about her son and she gave me his picture. Suddenly, I was called to the hospital, which is next door to my office to resuscitate a critically ill newborn. I excused myself, and ran to the hospital. When I got there, the baby was already better and I actually had little to do.

While charting my notes, one of the nurses came up to me and asked, "Who was that who came over with you? Is he a student?" I asked "what are you talking about". I was trying to find a pen, and took the picture out of my pocket. The nurse said: "that's him. He kept trying to get your attention".

I returned to my office and asked the mother if she had ever been contacted by her son. She said, "Oh yes, after he died, for several nights he would stand at the foot of my bed and tell me he was all right, and that I should stop crying. But that was only a crazy dream, it was just something I wanted to believe. It seemed real, but it couldn't have been real".

I felt too embarrassed to share with this mother what happened to me at the hospital. Instead, I told her that before she went to bed, she should do some simple relaxation techniques and turn off her internal narrator. She should then ask her son for help in healing her grief. I asked her to write down everything she dreamed about, and her first thoughts on awakening, and take her journal to a grief counselor in her hometown.

The mother wrote to me later, and told me that that night was the first night she had slept well since her son died. After years of going to various grief workshops and psychics and mediums, she learned that the seeds of her own healing right at the foot of her bed.

This Mom had an after-death communication from her son. It is one of the most common spiritual experiences that we have. Research shows that 50-75% of grieving spouses or parents have some sort of visitation. Unfortunately, like the Mother who visited me, most people trivialize or dismiss the experiences as grief induced hallucinations, and cut themselves off from their potential to heal.