Series Editor's Foreword Preface by J. Harold Ellens Introduction How Are We Called into the Future? Martin Seligman Part I Scientific and Secular Perspectives Chapter 1 Callings and the Meaning of Work Amy Wrzesniewski Chapter 2 The Dark Side of a Calling Ryan D. Duffy, Richard P. Douglass, and Kelsey L. Autin Chapter 3 Road to Damascus Moments: Calling Experiences as Prospective Epiphanies David Bryce Yaden and Andrew B. Newberg Chapter 4 Neuropsychological and Personological Aspects of Spirituality Cristiano Crescentini, Cosimo Urgesi, and Franco Fabbro Chapter 5 Called to Nonduality Zoran Josipovic and Judith Blackstone Chapter 6 Folk Theories of Calling in Chinese Cultural Contexts Kaiping Peng and Yukun Zhao Chapter 7 Calling Counselors: A Novel Calling Intervention for Career Development and Well-Being Susanna Wu-Pong Chapter 8 On Call: Physician Perspectives on Callings in Medicine and Medical Education Mary "Bit" Smith and Susan Rosenthal Chapter 9 Discerning Calling: Bridging the Natural and Supernatural Bryan J. Dik and Michael F. Steger Part II Sacred Perspectives Chapter 10 The Normalcy of the Paranormal: Numinous Experiences throughout the Life Span J. Harold Ellens Chapter 11 Calling of a Wounded Healer: Psychosis, Spirituality, and Shamanism David Lukoff Chapter 12 The Circus Snake: A Numinous, Initiatory Calling from Below Thomas Singer Chapter 13 Hope and Eternity: God as Transcendent Presence in the Ordinary Theo D. McCall Chapter 14 Called to Shape the Future Stephen Lewis Chapter 15 Sacrifice: The Shadow in the Calling Gregg Levoy Chapter 16 "I have been anointed and I have fleeced the Lord": The Contemporary Serpent Handlers of Appalachia and Their Experience of Being Called by God Ralph W. Hood Jr. Chapter 17 Already but Not Yet: Calling and Called in Religious Time Gordon Bermant Chapter 18 "Be Thou my Vision": Mystical Experience and Religious Calling J. Hugh Kempster Conclusion Answering the Call David Bryce Yaden Appendix Mystics Anonymous: An Introduction J. Hugh Kempster and David Bryce Yaden About the Editors About the Contributors Index

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