Bodies Inside and Outside
The body is the first place anything appears during an ESE – as a feeling, a sense, a thought, an experience. But…what is a body?
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Who Am I, Who Are You, and Who Are We: Culture(s) and Faith(s)
We live at the intersection of culture, faith, individuality, and community. Who we see ourselves to be and how all those identities interact matter in our experience of self and others.
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Gathering The Experienced
In my last few years as a pastor up in Maine, I often thought the American church, or at least my experience of it, needs a new map. Like overlaying a map of Paris on top of New York City and then finding new ways to get to places previously familiar, there need to be new pathways, new feeling networks that arc through the experience of faith and spirituality. I have a sneaking suspicion this…
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Coincidence or Synchronicity
What is coincidental and what is synchronicity? Today, I recount two synchronistic occurrences following my Johns Hopkins journeys.
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What was I thinking?
I will answer this in two ways. First, I was thinking, especially after it appeared I would actually be in the study (a story I will tell in a later entry), “I will write a book about this”. After my first experience, as in “Are You Experienced?” by Hendrix, I had an outline all worked out for what this book would look like. I was thinking that it would be this soaring, vast, mystic testimony…
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A Christian Pastor Trips Hard for Science
Greetings to you all! A year ago, a friend messaged me an ad from Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. It was an ad seeking spiritual leaders and clergy for a study on how psilocybin impacted the lives of said leaders and clergy. My good friend, Andy, thought this would be a perfect thing for me to do. And so I did. In December of 2018 and January of 2019, I did two ‘trials’, or ‘journeys’, or…