By Brian Luke Seaward, Ph.D. One semester, while attending graduate school at the University of Maryland, I enrolled in a new course called “Human Potentials.” It was a health class, but one unlike any health class I’d ever taken before. The content included but wasn’t limited to, cultivating intuition, creative problem-solving, energy healing, forgiveness practices,…
Category: Subtle Energies
Learning That We Are All Connected
by Celia Coates Splendid, splendid, splendid! A book has come my way (not a new book) that is just that – splendid. THE REALITY OF ESP by Russell Targ was published in 2012. The subtitle is “A Physicist’s Proof of Psychic Abilities” and Targ has had a long career in physics and in presenting pioneering…
Good Vibes Can Change Our World
by Celia Coates “Prominent designer channels a chic, organic vibe in a new, bayside abode.” That’s what appeared recently in slick marketing magazine. I am not interested in living in an abode. What about you? But I am very interested in “vibes” – vibrations. We’ve been hearing about vibrations for decades (even centuries) but “vibes”…
Facing Fear
by Celia Coates “Vehemently disturbed” – that was the woman’s immediate answer this week when the reporter asked her how she was feeling about what’s happening in this country. Her words caught my attention. She was not just mentioning feeling fear about the current state of things (a feeling that is painfully common these days)…
The Second “Love All Around”
By Brenda Molloy From Celia: If you have not read Brenda’s two earlier, informative posts about fractals and her art, you might scroll to the end of this third post and link to them now. On November 8th another image of “Love All Around” came in so pure and so quickly that it felt as…
More Than One Ecosystem
By Celia Coates In this week filled with terrible news, a welcome email came from Dean Radin, the chief scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. It included these words: “Crisis is an evolutionary driver. Crisis signals to organisms that incremental change will no longer suffice to survive. The materialistic world view that has led…
Reflections on Miracles
By Brian Luke Seaward When Matt was 16 years old, he was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. As you can imagine, the diagnosis left Matt and his entire family devastated. His father, Jack, was a physician who became especially involved – and concerned – with the medical treatment. One day after an exchange with…
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…
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…
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…