“Mommy, what if heaven is all a dream?” my younger son asked Thursday night, knowing that I was going away Friday to be with my 91-year-old father who has been hospitalized again. “Yes, and what if life is all a dream?” I answered, hugging him. He looked up at me as if to say “You’re…

“Freud is Not Dead” reads the March 27th cover story of Newsweek. Actually, I don’t want to contemplate whether Freud’s thinking is dead or alive, in or out. What I’d like to behold with you is that couch, the couch, and the antiquities that surround it––as pictured next to Newsweek’s table of contents. Freud had…

We were talking about affirmations earlier this week, those little uplifting phrases you say to yourself throughout the day. The reigning queen of this practice is Louise Hay, a self-help teacher famous for assigning affirmations to any problem and helping folks find their spiritual way. Hay’s growing radio network, Hay House Radio, has a website…

Mystical experiences are a universal, spiritually revelatory phenomenon with all kinds of individual textures––time suddenly comes to a glorious halt, or the world becomes one breathing, whole organism, or the entire cosmos and your place in it immediately make soul-shaking sense. While before you could only hope to stumble upon a passage in someone’s memoir…

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