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Teen-Age Transcendence... Author:  Barbara Ehrenreich It’s an experience that can be described in many different ways, using a surprisingly diverse array of adjectives: transcendental, delusional, dissociative, paranormal, extracorporeal, divine, spiritual, supernatural, miraculous, psychotic or occult.  But despite the many labels, language often fails people when they struggle to define their own “mystical experience”, an often emotionally distressing event that seems to create a momentary separation from ordinary space and time.  Fearing the response of their unaffected colleagues, people who are touched by such episodes are often too embarrassed to even try and discuss them, although they may be much more [...]

A Very Human Supernatural Author: Sue Dent Anna Chadwick, pregnant with twin boys, is dying of cancer, and with her, everything that ever mattered – her children. Running away into a stormy night, Anna receives the answer to her prayer when an electrical being descends from the sky and makes a deal. Anna will die, allowing the entity to use her body as a host. In return, her one child will live to be born and her stillborn baby will host the electrical being’s child. However, when an unscrupulous man finds out about the new Anna and her abilities, a [...]

A Non-Emotional Version of Daily, Small History in French Colonial Africa Author: Andre Gide Travels in the Congo is a classic, albeit obscure, memoir detailing André Gide’s travels from July 1926 through to May 1927 in French Equatorial Africa (currently the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Chad, and Cameroon.) Gide travels with his lover, Marc Allégret, who creates a film from their adventures also known as Travels in the Congo. Interestingly, the most historically scandalous aspect off Gide’s life, later friends with Oscar Wilde who believes that he introduces the man to homosexuality, are only faintly detectable [...]