David Bryce Yaden is a research fellow and assistant instructor at The University of Pennsylvania in the Positive Psychology Center, under the direction of Dr. Martin Seligman.Theo D. McCall, PhD, is the chaplain of St Peter's College, an Anglican school for boys in Adelaide, Australia.J. Harold Ellens, PhD, has held 15 pastorates, military and civilian, and taught full-time at Oakland University and as adjunct at Calvin Theological Seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary, Oakland Community College, Wayne County Community College, Wayne State University, and the Ecumenical Theological Seminary.

• Series Editor's ForewordPreface by J. Harold EllensIntroduction How Are We Called into the Future?Martin SeligmanPart I Scientific and Secular PerspectivesChapter 1 Callings and the Meaning of WorkAmy WrzesniewskiChapter 2 The Dark Side of a CallingRyan D. Duffy, Richard P. Douglass, and Kelsey L. AutinChapter 3 Road to Damascus Moments: Calling Experiences as Prospective EpiphaniesDavid Bryce Yaden and Andrew B. NewbergChapter 4 Neuropsychological and Personological Aspects of SpiritualityCristiano Crescentini, Cosimo Urgesi, and Franco FabbroChapter 5 Called to NondualityZoran Josipovic and Judith BlackstoneChapter 6 Folk Theories of Calling in Chinese Cultural ContextsKaiping Peng and Yukun ZhaoChapter 7 Calling Counselors: A Novel Calling Intervention for Career Development and Well-BeingSusanna Wu-PongChapter 8 On Call: Physician Perspectives on Callings in Medicine and Medical EducationMary "Bit" Smith and Susan RosenthalChapter 9 Discerning Calling: Bridging the Natural and SupernaturalBryan J. Dik and Michael F. StegerPart II Sacred PerspectivesChapter 10 The Normalcy of the Paranormal: Numinous Experiences throughout the Life SpanJ. Harold EllensChapter 11 Calling of a Wounded Healer: Psychosis, Spirituality, and ShamanismDavid LukoffChapter 12 The Circus Snake: A Numinous, Initiatory Calling from BelowThomas SingerChapter 13 Hope and Eternity: God as Transcendent Presence in the OrdinaryTheo D. McCallChapter 14 Called to Shape the FutureStephen LewisChapter 15 Sacrifice: The Shadow in the CallingGregg LevoyChapter 16 "I have been anointed and I have fleeced the Lord": The Contemporary Serpent Handlers of Appalachia and Their Experience of Being Called by GodRalph W. Hood Jr.Chapter 17 Already but Not Yet: Calling and Called in Religious TimeGordon BermantChapter 18 "Be Thou my Vision": Mystical Experience and Religious CallingJ. Hugh KempsterConclusion Answering the CallDavid Bryce YadenAppendix Mystics Anonymous: An IntroductionJ. Hugh Kempster and David Bryce YadenAbout the EditorsAbout the ContributorsIndex

David Bryce Yaden is a research fellow and assistant instructor at The University of Pennsylvania in the Positive Psychology Center, under the direction of Dr. Martin Seligman.Theo D. McCall, PhD, is the chaplain of St Peter's College, an Anglican school for boys in Adelaide, Australia.J. Harold Ellens, PhD, has held 15 pastorates, military and civilian, and taught full-time at Oakland University and as adjunct at Calvin Theological Seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary, Oakland Community College, Wayne County Community College, Wayne State University, and the Ecumenical Theological Seminary.

• Series Editor's ForewordPreface by J. Harold EllensIntroduction How Are We Called into the Future?Martin SeligmanPart I Scientific and Secular PerspectivesChapter 1 Callings and the Meaning of WorkAmy WrzesniewskiChapter 2 The Dark Side of a CallingRyan D. Duffy, Richard P. Douglass, and Kelsey L. AutinChapter 3 Road to Damascus Moments: Calling Experiences as Prospective EpiphaniesDavid Bryce Yaden and Andrew B. NewbergChapter 4 Neuropsychological and Personological Aspects of SpiritualityCristiano Crescentini, Cosimo Urgesi, and Franco FabbroChapter 5 Called to NondualityZoran Josipovic and Judith BlackstoneChapter 6 Folk Theories of Calling in Chinese Cultural ContextsKaiping Peng and Yukun ZhaoChapter 7 Calling Counselors: A Novel Calling Intervention for Career Development and Well-BeingSusanna Wu-PongChapter 8 On Call: Physician Perspectives on Callings in Medicine and Medical EducationMary "Bit" Smith and Susan RosenthalChapter 9 Discerning Calling: Bridging the Natural and SupernaturalBryan J. Dik and Michael F. StegerPart II Sacred PerspectivesChapter 10 The Normalcy of the Paranormal: Numinous Experiences throughout the Life SpanJ. Harold EllensChapter 11 Calling of a Wounded Healer: Psychosis, Spirituality, and ShamanismDavid LukoffChapter 12 The Circus Snake: A Numinous, Initiatory Calling from BelowThomas SingerChapter 13 Hope and Eternity: God as Transcendent Presence in the OrdinaryTheo D. McCallChapter 14 Called to Shape the FutureStephen LewisChapter 15 Sacrifice: The Shadow in the CallingGregg LevoyChapter 16 "I have been anointed and I have fleeced the Lord": The Contemporary Serpent Handlers of Appalachia and Their Experience of Being Called by GodRalph W. Hood Jr.Chapter 17 Already but Not Yet: Calling and Called in Religious TimeGordon BermantChapter 18 "Be Thou my Vision": Mystical Experience and Religious CallingJ. Hugh KempsterConclusion Answering the CallDavid Bryce YadenAppendix Mystics Anonymous: An IntroductionJ. Hugh Kempster and David Bryce YadenAbout the EditorsAbout the ContributorsIndex

David Bryce Yaden is a research fellow and assistant instructor at The University of Pennsylvania in the Positive Psychology Center, under the direction of Dr. Martin Seligman.Theo D. McCall, PhD, is the chaplain of St Peter's College, an Anglican school for boys in Adelaide, Australia.J. Harold Ellens, PhD, has held 15 pastorates, military and civilian, and taught full-time at Oakland University and as adjunct at Calvin Theological Seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary, Oakland Community College, Wayne County Community College, Wayne State University, and the Ecumenical Theological Seminary.

• Series Editor's ForewordPreface by J. Harold EllensIntroduction How Are We Called into the Future?Martin SeligmanPart I Scientific and Secular PerspectivesChapter 1 Callings and the Meaning of WorkAmy WrzesniewskiChapter 2 The Dark Side of a CallingRyan D. Duffy, Richard P. Douglass, and Kelsey L. AutinChapter 3 Road to Damascus Moments: Calling Experiences as Prospective EpiphaniesDavid Bryce Yaden and Andrew B. NewbergChapter 4 Neuropsychological and Personological Aspects of SpiritualityCristiano Crescentini, Cosimo Urgesi, and Franco FabbroChapter 5 Called to NondualityZoran Josipovic and Judith BlackstoneChapter 6 Folk Theories of Calling in Chinese Cultural ContextsKaiping Peng and Yukun ZhaoChapter 7 Calling Counselors: A Novel Calling Intervention for Career Development and Well-BeingSusanna Wu-PongChapter 8 On Call: Physician Perspectives on Callings in Medicine and Medical EducationMary "Bit" Smith and Susan RosenthalChapter 9 Discerning Calling: Bridging the Natural and SupernaturalBryan J. Dik and Michael F. StegerPart II Sacred PerspectivesChapter 10 The Normalcy of the Paranormal: Numinous Experiences throughout the Life SpanJ. Harold EllensChapter 11 Calling of a Wounded Healer: Psychosis, Spirituality, and ShamanismDavid LukoffChapter 12 The Circus Snake: A Numinous, Initiatory Calling from BelowThomas SingerChapter 13 Hope and Eternity: God as Transcendent Presence in the OrdinaryTheo D. McCallChapter 14 Called to Shape the FutureStephen LewisChapter 15 Sacrifice: The Shadow in the CallingGregg LevoyChapter 16 "I have been anointed and I have fleeced the Lord": The Contemporary Serpent Handlers of Appalachia and Their Experience of Being Called by GodRalph W. Hood Jr.Chapter 17 Already but Not Yet: Calling and Called in Religious TimeGordon BermantChapter 18 "Be Thou my Vision": Mystical Experience and Religious CallingJ. Hugh KempsterConclusion Answering the CallDavid Bryce YadenAppendix Mystics Anonymous: An IntroductionJ. Hugh Kempster and David Bryce YadenAbout the EditorsAbout the ContributorsIndex