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PROLOGUE

YOU HAVE CAPACITIES WITHIN YOU THAT ARE PHENOMENAL,IF YOU ONLY KNEW HOW TO RELEASE THEM.– David Bohm

It was Monday, May 11, 1953. I was eighteen years old and a freshman at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, which then had a population of 85,000 people. I was in my dormitory room, alone, completing an essay due later that week. By around 4:30 that afternoon, the sky had turned dark. It had been raining hard for a couple of hours, but now the rain was coming down in sheets, and the wind was picking up. All of a sudden it was as if a hundred freight trains were roaring through my room. It lasted only seconds, but I was stunned. “My God – what was that?” Within minutes the rain subsided to a light drizzle.

Without really thinking, I put ...