By Celia Coates One of the reasons we enjoy stories is that they often allow us to see beyond our own lives. We can envision events and characters that are different from what’s familiar and imagine new possibilities for how things might be. We can get these glimpses without plowing through dense texts or attending…
Lessons From Dr. Gladys
By Celia Coates If an author chooses to honor a special person or to dedicate their book to those who have supported their work, there are several ways this can be done. Sometimes it’s just by adding a set of initials after the word “For” on one of the first pages. Sometimes it’s a long…
Reflections on After-Life Communication
By Lucia Thornton After my son David died, I was desperate to communicate with him and perhaps he felt the same way. David had come to me quite unexpectedly on several occasions. Sometimes he appeared in dreams. Sometimes I could hear him talking and we carried on conversations “in my head”. And on one occasion…
David’s Light
By Lucia Thornton [This post by Lucia Thornton was originally published in 2009 in BRIDGES Magazine. I’d like to introduce you to Lucia here although many of you will have already met her. She and I co-edited that issue of ISSSEEM’s member magazine and she wrote this in her editorial comment, “I have been interested…
Comments about “Goosebumps”
Here are some of the comments that came in about last week’s post, WHAT ARE GOOSEBUMPS? Thank you all for sending them in! (winnpost.org/2023/03/17/what-are-goosebumps/ Wanda Blumenthal wrote, “I don’t remember where I first learned about hair as an antenna – reading it somewhere, I suppose. I get those little tingles on my head at times….
What Are Goosebumps?
By Celia Coates I will write about goosebumps further along, but first I’d like to quote author Tim Parks, “…I would invite readers to refer everything they read about consciousness, whether received ideas or exciting new theories, to their own experiences; never to be wowed or dazzled, scrupulously to consider what it’s really like being…
Dorothy Walters, Mystic and Poet
by Celia Coates Dorothy Walters, Mystic and Poet Word came this week of the death of Dorothy Walters. She was born on March 17, 1928 and became a professor of English literature who also helped to found one of the earliest women’s studies programs while at Wichita State University in Kansas. In 1981 her life,…
A Glimpse Into The Unseen World
By Brian Luke Seaward Have you seen this 15th century wood carving of a young man looking out beyond the usual, known boundaries of Earth to see what more he might find? He seems awestruck by the reality he discovered when he pushed past the veil of ordinary perception. Some versions of the wood carving…
Caring About Kindness
by Celia Coates Once upon a time (which means that I can’t remember the year this true story happened) I had a dream so real and vivid that it woke me up. It was clear, direct, and unusual. I could hear the voice of the speaker and my own voice and see the scene as…
A Life of Creativity, Curiosity, and Love
by Celia Coates Marilyn Hughey Phillis (1927 – 2022) had a long and wonderful life filled with creativity, curiosity, and love. She studied bacteriology and chemistry at Ohio State University and after graduating in 1949, worked as an analytic chemist on national defense projects. But her great work was as an artist. She won national…
Sacred Sites and Earth Energies
By David Yarrow For nearly fifty years I have traced water veins, mapped water flow systems, located wells for friends, learned about ley lines and earth energies, and discovered vortexes and sacred spaces. I have spent thousands of hours walking fields and woods studying how water and energy form networks on and under the land….
On Science and Wonder
In March of 2021, Garvin McCurdy published “A Boffin and Subtle Energies”. He wrote that in calling himself a “boffin” he was using a World War II term for “useful nerd”. It would be a good idea to read the post so you can learn he is so much more than that: http://www.WINNpost.org/2021/03/05/a-boffin-and-subtle-energies/ Like the…