A 24 year-old woman experienced the following events, which I am fortunate to share in her own words: In the fall of 1972 my mother, a retired university professor, was making a relocation to live in La Paz, Baja California. She packed up her Chevy Blazer, and one of her freshman English students, Tom, and…
There is an old Masonic cemetery in Virginia City, Nevada, with gravestones dating back to the first residents of this mining town. Around many of the burial plots are wrought iron fences, most no more than three feet high. They are gated and of ornate design common to the Victorian era. I visited the cemetery…
Are you afraid of snakes? If you are, you are not alone. Snakes are strange creatures—no arms, legs, or other appendages, just a scale-covered spine with a mouth at one end. Snakes slither along the ground in a mysterious and stealthy way. They are cold-blooded and the bite of some can be deadly. It is…
How do you make decisions? Are you the “decider,” as George W. Bush once referred to himself? Do you have a cabinet or board over which you preside? Is your soul on your board? Does God sit at your conference table offering His recommendations. Do you take what He says under advisement? Your ego likes…
Got your Oprah glasses on, and your Eckhart Tolle reader, your immersed within the present, and you’re feeling all that oneness, and everybody’s groovy, and all beliefs are valid, and everything’s respected, and empathy flows freely, except to those who disagree. All groups have a shadow, just as all people have a shadow. The danger…
On the battlefield, bullets whizzing past my ears, a war which I created through rebelliousness and obstinance. Chaos reigns supreme and none of it will end until I cry uncle, and God my service lend, and to God’s will I bend. The psyche will not be put off or in hubris be ignored, and every…
Tom didn’t think he would be able to get a job. At age 58, with graying hair and a noticeable limp from an old back injury, he figured most employers would see him as a liability rather than an asset to their organization. But when he walked into the lobby of a small company looking…
Does life continue after death? I would say that not only does it continue, in some cases it moves even faster than life on earth. Beverly is a 75 year-old woman whose husband was dead three years when she had the following dream. “I see Bud in the red and white checkered shirt he used to wear.…
Just as Alice tumbled down the rabbit hole and encountered a whole new world, so you will someday descend the manhole. Or, at least, I hope you will. You never really become an adult until you wade through the sewer of your being. When you descend the manhole you come face-to-face with the ignored, rejected,…
A woman dreamed, I am with my daughter, Sarah, in a large underground cavern. The area seems suffused with daylight, although I cannot make out its source. The rock walls are a deep forest green, rounded and smooth, as if the space has been carved out of the earth and then polished. It is divided…
