There are what can only be called spiritual interventions, insights or glimpses of possibilities that knock a person out of the groove.

Ultraorthodox Jewish parents sometimes use spiritual and mystical interventions such as prayers, blessings, recitations of religious text, holy water, amulets, changing the child's name, and exorcism.

His involvement in the Darling case proved a turning point in his life, making him entirely amenable to the possibility of unmediated spiritual intervention.

It is revealed that Samantha was taken by "spiritual intervention", with the help of beings called "Walk-ins".

"Of course," Lester continued breezily, "a bodily existence such as yours does not suggest the simplistic rejoinder that spiritual intervention saved your life."

Because even more unthinkable was Burke's claim to spiritual intervention.

After many days of consideration, he was said to have felt the hand of divine spiritual intervention.

But it might not have been successfully born if there had not been some extraordi- nary spiritual intervention.

John's overpowering guilt and family trauma erupt into a state of beautiful confusion with each spiritual intervention by Terry Gibson, a neighborhood boy killed in a drunk-driving accident.

The spiritual intervention of Hanina ben Dosa and Rabbi Abaye curbed her malevolent powers over humans.