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.