2 posts from July 2007

I feel like a total beginner in prayer and like someone with a very large appetite.  I want to get up early in the morning to enjoy the the quiet, the dark and the solitude.  Yet, my first temptation is to answer email -- E-mail, for God' sake.  The dullest though occasionally funny bits of spam, the dumbest bits of advertising yet invented, the means for the simplest conversations yet found.  How am I ever tempted and so often successfully tempted to throw away the most precious time of the day (sorry to my late sleeping friends), and deal with email? 
Really, it is sometimes scary to face the living God. 

Extraordinary Knowing: Science, Skepticism, and the Inexplicable Powers of the Human Mind

I am reading now a book, Extraordinary Knowing: Science, Skepticism, and the Inexplicable Powers of the Human Mind by a member of my church who died a few years ago, a training psychoanalyst in San Francisco at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute and a singer and musical director of the Berkeley Revels.  In short, Lisby Meyer had a life and a very rich and creative one. 
I find a the book a total page turner and I am in awe at Lisby's creativity and courage in addressing the issue of extraordinary knowing, which most of us would call intuition or telepathy.  I especially am amazed at the overwhelming favorable response she got when she presented on extraordinary knowing to her fellow analysts -- so many eagerly came forward to share their own stories both from their personal lives and their professional lives.

Makes me wonder how much we all ignore our intuitive sensitivities and have no way to cultivate it.