The Spiritual Brain by Mario Beauregard

Author:Mario Beauregard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2018-04-07T04:00:00+00:00

RSMEs often brought a sense of purpose or new meaning to life and positive changes in attitudes, which we look at in more detail in Chapter Eight.

Who Has RSMEs?

Neither Hardy’s group’s pioneer research nor most subsequent findings have supported the Washington Post (1993) view that RSMEs correlate with being “poor, uneducated, and easy to command”:65

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Mother Teresa

I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.

—Mother Teresa, on her work with the destitute

When the Albanian girl Agnes Bojaxhiu (1910–97) took up the religious life, she named herself after Carmelite mystic Thérèse of Lisieux, the “mystic of the ordinary.” She explained that she would not presume to name herself after “the big Teresa,” the great Carmelite mystic called Teresa of Avila.

This newly named Teresa served happily in a teaching order in India in the mid-twentieth century. But after four mystical experiences in 1946 and 1947, she went out onto the streets of one of the world’s poorest cities and founded her own order, the India-based Missionaries of Charity, dedicated to serving the poorest of the poor. She was joined by some of her former students. One of their earliest projects was to collect destitute people who had been turned out of hospitals and take them to their newly founded Home for the Dying. She wanted these unfortunate people to be able to die within sight of a loving face, even if they could not be saved.

Mother Teresa herself never had another mystical experience after 1947, which caused her personal sadness. But her order’s work has become known and valued worldwide.66

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