[…] study of a force outside the rules of science, but that it was really something tremendous, a breaking down of the walls between two worlds, a direct undeniable message from beyond, a call of […]
[…] more: * “ineffability/’ or extreme difficulty to find words apt to convey the NDE; * “hearing the news,” hearing doctors pronouncing the experiencer “dead”; * initial “feelings of peace and quiet”; * then a […]
[…] Shannon, right?” “Carolyn,” Norman corrected, “and funny you ask. We’re getting married.” “That poor girl,” Erica said, breaking her bored silence. She thumbed through a Cosmopolitan and yawned. “She’s always so sarcastic in the […]
[…] 1977. He was a newly minted RM, fresh off the plane from Copenhagen. She was a twenty-year-old English major struggling her way through Shakespeare and Dickens and Henry Adams. They somehow ended up together […]
[…] Society, 1957), pp. 1-8. Dorothy O. Rea, “Church Sponsors Film ‘Search for Truth’ on Science, Religion,” Church News, 23 Dec. 1961, pp. 4, 7, 8. See also Henry Eyring “Our Five Worlds,” The Instructor […]
[…] as ingesting botulism toxin from a can of vegetables or catching a cold by a kiss or breaking skin on sharp glass. Each of these events begins a biochemical or physiological process that, unless […]
[…] (June 1994): 8-9. On this, see Hyrum M. Smith, Doctrine and Covenants Commentary (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1941), 1002-1003. Orson Whitney expected that “the future will be an open vision,… the past, […]
[…] presence delightful; Delightful house.” Then Mommy added something not repeated to her by her elders, her voice breaking and her eyes unblinking and shiny. “My daughter leaves me now for better things, a new […]
[…] over the intercom to the mounted TV monitors where men in suits and ties reported the latest breaking news. Mark followed the bilingual signs (Puerta/Gate. Salidas/Departures) past the concessions—Burger King, souvenir shops, sports bars—down […]
[…] 82–83; see also Gyatso, Apparitions of Self, 173, 194–97). Elsewhere, Gyatso explains this as facilitating the “ breaking of codes (brda grol), here a metaphor for the loosening of the psychic knots that bind […]