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Beyond the Incubator

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  By Sam Bell A Sacred Journey into Densities of Connection In the neonatal intensive care unit in the West Los Angeles hospital, life is both intensified and suspended. The synthetic air, rhythmic machinery, and antiseptic stillness around my son Andrew carved into me a language of its own—pre-verbal, pre-frontal, but unforgettably resonant. Every day for ten days, I sat by his incubator, a plastic dome filled with invisible grace. I didn't just talk to him with my voice. I also spoke to him using my feelings—something more profound than just words. When we express ourselves, we usually push air out and shape it into sounds using our mouths and tongues. But this time, my words were coming from a deeper, more intricate place inside me. My heart and thoughts were in perfect harmony, working in tandem. I wasn't just saying words I remembered. I was sending him the feeling behind them—love, peace, and care. I was sharing part of my spirit. Imagine if your best friend is unfortunat...
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METANOIA

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  Why I am   Refusing to Hunt the Wicked by sambell In the hushed threshold between life and death, in the liminality of breath that slows before cessation, I have spent decades attuning myself—not merely to spoken language, but to the ineffable, to the resonance beneath silence. As a speech pathologist with over 40 years of experience in hospitals and hospice settings, I have encountered countless individuals in their most vulnerable hours, where the temporal begins to dissolve into the eternal. This unique perspective has allowed me to attune myself to the ineffable, to the resonance beneath silence. It is within these sacred encounters, and through a longstanding communion with my guardian angel, Daisy, that I have discerned a vocational boundary. My commitment is clear: I will support the wounded, the grieving, and those who are spiritually disoriented. This is the purpose of my spiritual connection, not to pursue those who have caused harm. My stance is not a repudiation ...
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A Girl Sees a Shape-Shifter

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  by sambell Imagine this: a young woman is talking to a man who seems totally normal. He speaks clearly, looks average, acts like anyone else. But then, in just a few seconds, something shocking happens—he  changes . Right before her eyes, he transforms into something else. Not a costume or a trick of light—but an actual change of shape. Her whole body shakes. Her brain can't make sense of what she just saw. And then—just as suddenly—the man turns back to normal. He looks human again, just as he did before. However, the woman is no longer the same. She's shaken to her core. Later, she paints what she saw. She tries to turn the impossible into art. But eventually, even the painting becomes too much, so she destroys it. All that's left is her story—and her trembling. These events, where the mysterious intrudes into the mundane, are what we call  liminal experiences . Liminality, a state of transition or in-betweenness, blurs the boundaries of our perceived reality. It's ...
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