Experiencing the Soul [antikvár]

FOREWORD by Academy Award®-winning actress Ellen Burstyn My interest in the area of the nonmaterial dimension of reaUty began while I was still a child, when my grandfather died. My mother and I had been out shopping. Upon our return, we went to my brother's room to see if he was home. My brother was currently staying in the room my grandfather had lived in for several months after the death of my grandmother. As we entered the room, I was startled to smell the overpowering aroma of flowers. I turned to my mother and asked, "Do you smell that?" My mother answered quietly, "Yes, it smells like flowers." Remembering my grandmother's funeral just a few years before, I said, "It smells like a funeral parlor." Just then the phone rang. My mother walked to the phone in an unnaturally measured pace and picked up the receiver in what seemed like slow motion. I watched her face crumble as she received the news of her father's sudden and unexpected death. I could not understand this experience. I hoped some day that I might. I carried it with me like candy in my pocket waiting for the right time to eat it and digest its strange sweetness. Not only did a full explanation of that event never come, but as I grew older, my pocket filled with more candy, more events of a mysterious kind that intrigued me but brought no concrete answers. In fact, my questions deepened. Over the years, I came to realize that at the core of our reality is what Buckminster Fuller called the "a priori mystery." This mystery has led me, haunted me, fascinated throughout