Rod shares how his mystical experiences evolved and how you can develop your own mystical abilities.

Here he highlights some of the most significant and fascinating characters in 20th century American mysticism.

Serious illness provides an opportunity for individuals to get in touch with the part of themselves that is not dependent upon social status, wealth or physical appearance. Dale Borglum, PhD, is founder and director of the Living/Dying Center in Fairfax, California. He suggests that healing is most possible when one does not deny the possibility [...]

Arguably at the core of the American spiritual experience lies this man: Ralph Waldo Emerson. Unitarian minister, Transcendentalist (the uniquely American philosophy promising direct connection to the divine), venerated author of Self Reliance, Nature and The Oversoul and one of the earliest synthesizers of East-West spiritual thinking, Emerson laid the groundwork for the father of [...]

In this excerpt (part 3 of 4, parts 1 and 2 posted, part 4 to follow) Semkiw describes the pioneering research of Dr. Ian Stevenson at the University of Virginia who established the discipline of reincarnation research by focusing on investigations of young children who remember past lives. For the full interview on New Thinking [...]

Here he describes how he, as a scientist, approaches the phenomenology of eyeless sight.