Early Morning Dad Visit
/On a recent morning as I lay in bed in the drifty state between sleep and waking, my father, who’d died of alcoholism in 1974, came to visit me.
Read MoreOn a recent morning as I lay in bed in the drifty state between sleep and waking, my father, who’d died of alcoholism in 1974, came to visit me.
Read MoreWhen William James explored spiritual and mystical experiences in his 1902 book, The Varieties of Religious Experience, one of the experience qualities he noted was ineffability. No matter how articulate a person is, human language doesn’t have words to adequately capture the meaning, the feeling, and the transformational quality.
Read MoreThe phrase, “spiritual practice,” might bring to mind prayer, meditation or yoga, but that’s not all it can be. As Sue Monk Kidd alluded to, it’s individual and you can create it. It’s anything you do regularly that connects you to your own spirit, or connects you to Spirit with a capital ‘S.’
Read MoreI’ve always been interested in the nature of reality, so I gobbled up Dr. Raymond Moody’s groundbreaking book, Life After Life, at age 19 in 1975. However, when I had my most powerful mystical experience, in the 1990s, it was not an NDE or NDE-like experience, but something else entirely.
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