As a scientist developing new drugs, Leo Kim felt helpless and frustrated as he watched cancer patients die. He embarked on a twenty-five year spiritual quest to understand human existence and what this world is all about. HEALING THE RIFT discovers that the conflicts between science and spirituality can be resolved with recent scientific discoveries, which reveal that our world is a blending of mind and spirit.

Science attempts to explain our world without a creator, spirit, or design. It constantly seeks new information with which to test and revise its theories.

Spirituality accepts that the most important aspects of our world are hidden beyond human comprehension. It labels this realm spirit, soul, and God. So, who is right? Are we simply a collection of cells that eventually becomes sick and die? Is there a plan for us? Science addresses the second question from a different perspective than spirituality, and it ignores the third question. Spirituality focuses on the third question, and it answers the question with an emphatic yes.

A poll conducted by Gallup in 2000 revealed that 90% of the people in the United States believe in a spiritual dimension. Yet, most of us also believe in science. These facts support the need for a work such as HEALING THE RIFT, which takes the reader through a metaphysical and scientific journey that explores where we came from, what we are, and the illusory nature of reality.

Leo Kim explains the science in simple terms with numerous entertaining examples, metaphors, and anecdotes. The chapters build to a climax when we learn how twenty-first-century science reveals a new emerging truth and how this truth is consistent with spirituality, an afterlife, and the potential human legacy. Modern science does support our spirituality—and the result is HEALING THE RIFT.

"It is vital that we remain open minded, and accept what we cannot explain or understand but do experience. There is no gap between science and spirituality until we create one. Psyche and soma, as Jung said, are simply two aspects of the same thing. From my personal near death experience and past life, and my patients' spiritual and mystical occurrences, I know consciousness is non-local and exists after the body ceases to. We need to accept and explore what we experience and not let our research into the origin of life be limited by beliefs. Kim's book is a treasure of wisdom and wonderful resource for all to read." -Bernie Siegel, M.D., author of Love, Medicine & Miracles and 365 Prescriptions For The Soul  

"I found Leo Kim's 'Healing the Rift:  Bridging the Gap Between Science & Spirituality' riveting.  It was riveting because, in his book, he offered easy-to-understand word pictures of scientific findings that described what the vast majority of near-death experiencers actually encounter during their episodes. Page after page addressed this, even though as a scientist himself, he was looking for commonalities, ways of showing how the latest in science brings us closer to what our faith traditions have been telling us for thousands of years.  Lots of books try to do this, but Leo Kim's does this one better.

Without necessarily meaning to, he winds up walking us through the illusions of time and space just as experiencers of transformative states really experience it.  He gives us words where there are so few.  He gives us questions that become answers that lead to heartfelt sighs of relief that at last. . .someone took the time to explain the strange but true."

- P. M. H. Atwater, L.H.D., researcher of near-death states, and author of nine books on her findings, including The Big Book of Near-Death Experiences

"Congratulations to Leo Kim for writing a terrific, far-seeing, integrative and very readable book! He has great writing skill and a remarkable ability to communicate very complex material in a lucid format. This book is highly recommended for all readers, especially those sincerely interested in the connections between science and spirituality. There is great wisdom in this book!" - William A. Tiller, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Materials Science
Stanford University


"If ever there was a time for healing to occur between science and spirituality, it is now.  Dr. Kim has written a highly readable and graceful book revealing how contemporary science is enabling us to envision and experience the larger spiritual reality of life and the Universe."  - Gary E. Schwartz, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Medicine, The University of Arizona, and author of The Afterlife Experiments and The G.O.D. Experiments.  

“A personal tragedy as a young man led Leo Kim to ask the really big questions: What is life? Reality? Death? How do we combine what we can explain with what we feel but is beyond explanation? With heart, soul, deep intelligence and feeling, this celebrated scientist guides us through science and spirituality to a remarkable answer.” - Eric Lax author Life and Death on Ten West and The Mould in Dr. Florey’s Coat

"Dr. Leo Kim proposes that Upixel, the basic element of energy and matter in our universe is the ultimate link between science and spirituality. Through Upixel we are in synch with the universe and live through past, present and future. This conclusion was drawn from his exhaustive and critical analysis of vast amount of information on creation of universe, earth and life; the intricate workings of our body, especially brain; and the teachings of various religions. Let the immortal Upixel of our love permeate throughout the universe! The book gives me chance to appreciate a new dimension of our life as a human being." - Chi-Bom Chae, Distinguished Professor and Director, Institute of Biomedical Science, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea