As a practicing psychic consultant, I have at times overreached. Usually I did so inadvertently. A woman client had referred a male friend, a professional, to me for psychic counseling. He seemed a very nice man, quietly intelligent and low-keyed. The session went very well and the gentleman, and he was that, thanked me for the insights my channel provided. When the lady who referred him visited again, I asked about her friend. Oh, he committed suicide, she said. Carbon monoxide while sitting in his car inside a closed garage. She then confided that the man suffered clinical depression. I hadn't known that. I assumed he experienced normal unresolved inner conflicts that my process of psychic psychoanalysis might discover. I didn't know that he was one who when seized by the deepest of blue funks had little or no control over his dark mood. Apparently psychotherapists, clinical psychologists and psychiatrists aren't always successful in dealing with such mental disorders ei...
True believers have firm beliefs regarding the nature of God. As I matured and became a university student of Western Philosophy, and even before that as I began to read important books while in the U.S. Army to get the GI Bill for higher education, I began to question the very existence of that which we call “God”. But, in my case, many years had to pass as I continued to think and study as my spiritual position evolved. Beliefs rooted in our early conditioning do not change easily but they can and do in certain minds. Without going through my evolutionary history, after lengthy thought and study, I settled on a position in which I considered myself an atheist by belief, and an agnostic necessarily because of the human inability to know for certain. I grew up inculcated in the Christian thought of Wesleyan Methodism. And it was that early life conditioning that I rebelled from or out of. Later, as a young man, I explored and was baptized in Roman Catholicism, but I rejected ...