Day of Pentecost

The Rev. Emily Boring This sermon explores mystical experience, depression, healing, and Christian community through the preacher’s personal experience with ketamine therapy. The preacher describes how ketamine sessions produced profound experiences of interconnectedness, dissolving feelings of isolation and revealing a deep sense of divine unity. She reinterprets depression as disconnection rather than simply sadness and suggests that healing comes through reconnection with others and with creation. Drawing on Paul’s discussion of spiritual gifts and the body of Christ in 1 Corinthians, the sermon argues that spiritual gifts are not private possessions but acts of service that bind communities together. Ultimately, the sermon emphasizes that true spiritual wholeness is found not in escaping embodiment but in embracing human life together through love, care, touch, worship, and shared community.