I don’t know if it is the same for all veteran book reviewers, but I have learned to either not take too much stock in the endorsements that sometimes fill up to ten pages at the front of a book (!) or to just ignore them completely. But, in the case of Dr. Terry Gordon’s No Beginning… No End, several important names caught my eye. When the likes of Don Miguel Ruiz, Bruce Lipton, Caroline Myss, John Edward, and Patch Adams are saying this is a book worth reading, one ought to pay attention.
I also want to mention the expectations that I had because of the subtitle. Having studied the survival of consciousness after death for many years as an author, researcher, podcast host, and field investigator, as well as communicating with dozens who have died and still engage with the living, I expected this to be a book securely in the camp of Science versus Spirituality. So few MDs are crossing that thick, black line, and it is hard to blame them. The medical profession gatekeepers suspend tenure, credibility, and career health like the sword of Damocles over the heads of those who do so. This is also not a criticism: Books by MDs securely in the camp of Science are invaluable to the larger work of researchers, experiencers, and psychic mediums. However, Dr. Gordon brings in and draws from both camps, in the same way as does a quantum physicist. Part clinical case study, part spiritual guide, and part autobiography, No Beginning… No End is an important text for those willing to seek the robust results at the nexus of Science and Spirituality.
Dr. Gordon’s credentials as an MD are impressive. He has an undergraduate degree in psychology, which clearly presents itself in his astute observations on human nature and motivation. As a medical intern and then as a crisis cardiologist, he has dealt daily with life and death for decades. Many of the stories he tells—devoid of the hope he assigns them—would be heartbreaking. Continue reading