Charis Brown Mal­loy expe­ri­enced her ini­tial and very unex­pect­ed spir­i­tu­al awak­en­ing while in col­lege. She feared for her san­i­ty until her seem­ing “hal­lu­ci­na­tions” were sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly ver­i­fied as valid infor­ma­tion.