By Shawn Harte
Shawn Harte considers how hallucination might be mistaken for the supernatural.
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I must confess that I am an African-American woman, a Christian woman, a woman who believes there is more than one path to God.
Emotion coaching is the practice of talking with children about their feelings, and offering kids strategies for coping with emotionally difficult situations. The goal is to empathize, reassure, and teach. Does it make a difference? Yes.
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Frankl’s thesis echoes those of many sages, from Buddhists to Stoics to his 20th century Existentialist contemporaries: “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
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As we search for ways of understanding the possibly infinite resources of human consciousness, I suggest that the potential of psychedelics as tools for learning should not be ignored.
As my spiritual journey deepened, friends fell away. As I shed one identity after another, I no longer identified with the people attached to them.
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A neurological explanation of NDEs remains elusive.
Despite parallels, there are profound differences between DMT and NDEs.
Psychedelic drug phenomena do not justify radical new views of reality.
Before we claim that spiritual experiences heal, we must agree on what a spiritual experience is.