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[Martha Beck describes her own experience of post-traumatic psychic numbing with Virginia Woolf's phrase, "living behind a pane of...

"As far as the search for solitude is concerned, we live in a negative atmosphere as invisible, as all pervading, and as enervating as...

"When Adam was three years old, I began to lose hope that he would ever communicate verbally. His inability to speak was terribly...

[The Dean of the Cathedral has struck up an unlikely friendship with Isaac Peabody, the local watchmaker.] "'And no doubt as a boy you...

"I was alone with my books. I would get up each morning, eat breakfast, and drink a cup of coffee while I walked around my long, narrow...

[Vicky's beloved grandfather is dying of leukemia, and her family is staying with him over the summer. She refers to a recent...

"It's taken me some time to be comfortable using the term synchronicity, Jung's term for the curious way in which ordinary, external...

[Continued from the previous two weeks. Sylvia confides in her sister Judith that their bereaved father has taken up spiritualism under...

[Continued from last week. Sylvia ponders how to help her bereaved father.] "But now, now, she must think of nothing but her father. ...

[Sylvia Marshall's mother has died recently and unexpectedly of an illness. Her father is losing his reason in anguish and bereavement.]...

"When I was in my early twenties, I went with a date to a nightclub in New York. Appearing there were two talented young musicians,...

"My Spiritual Awakening "I had been sitting in the library for half an hour. I turned to my teacher and said, 'Such a strange thing has...

"Morning after morning I returned to my hillside room to reach out for the stillness as a thirsty man reaches for a cup of cold water. I...

"As he sat gazing into the clear running of the water, Archibald Craven gradually felt his mind and body both grow quiet, as quiet as the...

They sat up late that night talking - Marise must tell about Rome and...

The Dean made a hasty luncheon and after it, he set out immediately...

One day Aunt Martha, when she came to bring eggs from the store, brought also...

"But something worse was ailin' my heart, only Doc didn't know about that...

Later in the evening when the moon had come up, Aunt Martha opened the door...

The world's spiritual geniuses seem to discover universally that...