Prayer and verbally answered prayer would seem to offer powerful evidence in relation to the question of human agency. Forty members of an English Pentecostal group completed a questionnaire on prayer: 25 reported an answering voice from God, 15 of them hearing Him aloud. The latter groups were interviewed and characteristics of phenomenology and context elicited. The voice of God cannot be hel...

While a resident in psychiatry at a large metropolitan hospital, I was called to the Emergency floor one evening to see a Hispanic lady, who was reported to have an anxiety attack. I found the lady very distraught, frightened, and shaking all over. Since she could not understand English, I asked her in Spanish what was wrong. She told me she had been feeling upset after a quarrel with her daugh...

Electrogenerated PPy doped with pSA was used as a substrate for immobilization of GOD. This was achieved via covalent bonding of carboxyl groups of the main chain of alginate with amino groups of the enzyme. The pH-induced aggregation behavior of SA in aqueous solution was employed to provide optimum conditions for electrochemical preparation of PPy by galvanostatic methods. GOD was attached to...

obby Bo has gone to God!" The bird's squawk was clear the second time around. "God bless Bobby Bo," said Grace O'Leary to the parakeet perched on a small plastic ladder. She had explained to me that Sean's talons were sore this morning, so he couldn't stretch them sufficiently to perch on her ringer. "Bobby Bo has gone to God!" replied the parakeet. Her sister Catherine touched my hand. "You se...

Players of New Eleusls attempt to f i nd the "secret ru le" which governs the play of cards. This ru le , which is made up by a player refered to As "God," may be anything at a l l so long as it depends only on a t t r ibu tes of the cards themselves. The scoring of the game punishes a God who makes up rules which are too d i f f i c u l t fo r any of the players to discover. Players experiment...

112 Attachment theory is a powerful account of the formation of relational bonds that provide for physical survival and psychological security throughout the lifespan. It integrates findings from ethology, and from biological, psychodynamic, and cognitive-affective theories in psychology. Analyses of attachment bonds between infants and caregivers have been extended to attachments between roman...

This article examines the teachings of several Christian and Sufi mystics on the position of reason in the spiritual life, from Al-Hallaj (d. 922) to David R. Hawkins (b. 1927). In the plethora of “maps,” “stages,” and “ladders” discussed by mystics, the level of reason is highly regarded as a “rung” of spiritual attainment. However, reason alone is not enough to transport the soul to the most ...

“...the whole world had one language one common speech for all people. The people of the earth became skilled in construction and decided to build a city with a tower that would reach to heaven. By building the tower they wanted to make a name for themselves and also prevent their city from being scattered. God came to see their city and the tower they were building. He perceived their intentio...