The doorway to the realm of mindfulness is easily opened when we ourselves become open to the fact that not everything that we encounter has a rational explanation. Sometimes, weird phenomena can happen to us for the very purpose to shock us into realizing how little we know and to embrace life encounters without fear or prejudice. It opens our mind to all possibilities of experience.

After all, whether or not we believe in an afterlife, what do we have to lose by at least considering it as an exciting possibility. Such was the experience of a twenty-something American living in Sweden in the late 1970s.

If we’re having a bad day, feel mired in hopelessness or seem drifting without meaningful purpose, the perfect antidote is to have a talk with Rachna Sharma.