Together with the ISSC team of associates, which includes Dr. Jose Miguel Gaona, MD, Ph.D., Isabelle Chauffeton Saavedra, Lance Williams Beem, MA, Raymond Moody MD, and AJ Parr, Morse conducted the groundbreaking research with the participation of nineteen hand-picked, certified mediums who were asked to connect with the afterlife over a nine-month period and later prepared the conclusions and final report: “An Investigation into the Current Status of the Spiritual Progress of Humanity as Ascertained by Interviewing Nineteen Mediums,” Morse graduated from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland in 1975 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Natural Science.

[5] Morse suggested to the Los Angeles Times during an interview that he and his colleagues at University of Washington School of Medicine had to abandon their initial theory - that near death experiences were simply a reaction to drugs during life saving attempts.

[4] In March 1995, Morse's studies featured in an article ran by the Los Angeles Times analyzing near death experiences.

He was the subject of an article in the Rolling Stone magazine in 2004 entitled "In search of the Dead Zone"[8] and appeared in an episode of Unsolved Mysteries.

[16] He has also conducted research on children’s near-death experiences, childhood leukemia, PTSD management, the new scientific paradigm of consciousness, random number generation, and the benefits of reiki therapy and kundalini meditation, among others.

[18] Following a hearing in June 2022, Morse’s medical license was reinstated after being suspended in 2012, when he was arrested and later convicted of child endangerment.

In 2012, he and his second wife were arrested on child endangerment charges based on allegations made by his eleven year old step-daughter.

[2][23] The step-daughter who made the allegations against Morse & his wife, was later proved to have lied on the witness stand in a previous case, which resulted in her sister spending a year in juvenile prison.

Following his release, Morse co-founded The Recidivism Prevention Group, a company dedicated to assisting addicts and former inmates in developing spiritual understandings to re-enter society as productive members.