Some people flinch at the notion of non-local reach, which is inherent in any cosmology which admits prayer no matter what icons it uses.

Prayer is demonstrably effective (Dossey, "Healing Words", 1995) and is demonstrably non-local (Ibid; cf Pribam) , but to confront that requires that one consider the strange notion there is a scope to every inddividual which extends far, far beyond the safe, comfortable retreat of the body's edges and the brain's warm electronics.

This contemplation can be extremely unsettling to those who have retreated within those boundaries for the sake of predictable, safe and reliable concealment. For one thing it means returning to face the considerable forces and confusions which led to retreat in the first place; for another it means "showing" oneself in non-physical ways of being, which is intolerable to those habituated to solid forms of existence for their credibility.

Regards,

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