with contributions from William D. Ansley, Zina Bauman, Renée Bogrand Alton, Sandra Justad
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I started to pray about the threat of terrorism, I felt almost paralyzed because I was thinking more from the standpoint of "What can I, just one person, do in the face of a whole system devoted to hate and destruction?
If I were asked to name the significant impression from this experience with my two daughters, it would have to be the contrast between the terror and helplessness we felt when we discovered that they had drunk rat poison, and the fresh feeling of love and normality that pervaded our thoughts after visiting the Christian Science practitioner.
It's called psychogenic illness—false information or fear triggering real symptoms in the public at large. Read how you can take control of yourself when this phenomenon, or any other situation, threatens to sweep you along with the crowd.
Usually shadows are associated with disturbance and depression. But one night in a time of sickness and loneliness, a young recruit found a guiding light in the shadows that has helped him ever since.
