James Allen Hall
speaker
2,199 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 10 Aug
James Allen Hall’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We were chanting to Tara, goddess of compassion and peace, in the basement chapel late at night.
I felt myself drawn upward, not levitating physically, but still somehow above my body.
A sense of bliss surrounded me.
It lasted 10 or 15 minutes.
When I came down, my forehead hurt.
The spot where the third eye appears in Buddhist art felt as though someone had pushed a pencil through it.
The soreness lasted for a week.
Michael wasn't surprised.
He did a lot of work with people with AIDS in the epidemic's early days, but when he started losing weight and having trouble with a cough, he was filled with denial.
By the time he checked into St.
Luke's, he was in dreadful shape.
The respirator down his throat squelched the contagious enthusiasm of his voice, but he could still spell out what he wanted to say on a plastic Ouija board beside his bed.
When the doctor who came in to tell him the results of his bronchoscopy said, Father, I'm afraid I have bad news, Michael grabbed the board and spelled, The truth is always good news.
After he died, I had a dream in which I was a student in a class that he was posthumously teaching.
With mock annoyance, he exclaimed, Oh, Tim, I can't believe you really think that AIDS is a disease.
There's evidence in that direction, I'll tell him, if the dream recurs.
The shiny hamburger and lucite look of the big lesion on my face, the smaller ones I daub with makeup, the loss of 40 pounds in a year, the fatigue that comes on at the least convenient times.
The symptoms float like algae on the surface of the grace that buoys me up today.
Arthur comes in with the sacrament and we have to leave the room.
Joe's Italian family has arrived for birthday cheer to find some quiet.
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