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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Alternative belief systems
An unabridged edition to include: Wherein I Bow to the Reader - A
Prelude to the Quest - A Magician Out of Egypt - I Meet A Messiah -
The Anchorite of the Adyar River - The Yoga Which Conquers Death -
The Sage Who Never Speaks - With The Spiritual Head of South India
- The Hill of the Holy Beacon - Among The Magicians And Holy Men -
The Wonder-Worker of Benares - Written in the Stars - The Garden of
the Lord - At the Parsee Messiah's Headquarters - A Strange
Encounter - In a Jungle Hermitage - Tablets of Forgotten Truth
Whispers of a Heart from the Other Side is an amazing story
about a girl named Betsabe, who made contact with her closest
family and friends after she left her earthly life
unexpectedly.
Author Maria Rosario Rowan has since been visited by her
departed niece and an accompanying spirit of light, daily, for
several months, to share beautiful messages that reveal truth about
life here on earth, and in the hereafter.
There's more to life than working forty hours a week to survive in
our society. And that's what this book is all about.
"Americas Awakening" shows where humanity stands and what it
must do to fulfill its potential. Join the author as he Analyzes
the American lifestyle through clear eyes, to outline problems, and
explain solutions. Presents earthly truths and wisdom, encouraging
readers to think and awaken so they can change themselves and the
world. Tells his own story of how he left his life as an average,
middle-class man to pursue the truth and reshape his life. This
story is for the employee tired of the status quo, the college
student questioning societies norms, and the thinker searching for
answers. It's for anyone who wants to find wisdom and open their
eyes to a better world with Americas Awakening.
This fascinating and insightful tour through present-day meetings
of Spiritualists, UFOlogists, and dowsers illuminates our obsession
with the paranormal and challenges the misunderstanding of the
paranormal as a marginal or inconsequential feature of America's
religious landscape. According to a 2005 Gallup poll, 75 percent of
Americans believe in some form of paranormal activity. The United
States has had a collective fascination with the paranormal since
the mid-1800s, and it remains an integral part of our culture.
Haunted Ground: Journeys through a Paranormal America examines
three of the most vibrant paranormal gatherings in the United
States-Lily Dale, a Spiritualist summer camp; the Roswell UFO
Festival; and the American Society of Dowsers' annual convention of
"water witches"-to explore and explain the reasons for our
obsession with the paranormal. Both academically informed and
thoroughly entertaining, this book takes readers on a "road trip"
through our nation, guided by professor of American religion Darryl
V. Caterine, PhD. The author interprets seemingly unrelated case
studies of phantasmagoria collectively as an integral part of the
modern discourse about "nature" as ultimate reality. Along the way,
Dr. Caterine reveals how Americans' interest in the paranormal is
rooted in their anxieties about cultural, political, and economic
instability-and in a historic sense of alienation and homelessness.
Chronologies focusing on the main developments in Spiritualist,
UFOlogical, and dowsing history Photographs of materials, culture,
and events at Lily Dale, the Roswell UFO Festival, and The American
Society of Dowsers annual convention taken by the author A
bibliography of authoritative scholarly works, primary texts, and
theoretical frameworks pertinent to the study of Spiritualism,
UFOlogy, and dowsing
This book explores the implication of diversity for humanism.
Through the insights of academics and activists, it highlights both
the successes and failures related to diversity marking humanism in
the US and internationally. It offers a timely depiction of how
humanism in general as well as how particular humanist communities
have wrestled with the nature of our changing world, and the issues
that surface in relationship to markers of difference.
The Book on Mediums, also known as The Mediums Book, was written by
Allan Kardec and originally published in 1861. It is the widely
respected follow up to The Spirits Book which was published in 1857
and is the second in a series of five books that Kardec wrote that
are collectively known as the 'Spiritist Codification'. In the
1850's, whilst investigating the afterlife, Kardec communicated in
seances with a collection of spirits named 'The Spirit of Truth'
who discussed many important topics such as life after death, good
and evil, the nature of the universe, the origin of spirits, and
many other subjects. The Spirit of Truth' allegedly counted many of
history's great thinkers amongst its number such as Thomas Aquinas,
Voltaire and Augustine of Hippo. Over time and after several
sessions with the group Kardec had gathered enough information to
convince him of life after death and he was compelled to spread the
teachings of 'The Spirit of Truth'. He 'codified' their comments
and listed them as answers to questions and this forms the content
of his teaching. The Books on Mediums is intended to be an
essential guide to mediumship for mediums and those interested in
the spirit world. The book covers the different types of mediumship
including, table-turning, incorporation of spirits, haunted houses,
transfiguration, apparitions, psychography and telekinesis. It
explains how to deal with manifestations and how to guard against
frauds, charlatans, and skeptics alike. The book warns against the
perils of un-guided mediumship, possession, and obsession that
often go hand in hand with the beautiful revelation that spiritual
communication can reveal. Some of Kardec's advice found in the book
include; "Do not believe the spirit to be who he purports to be
unless there is evidence supporting his claim, but even then, wait
till others confirm what one has said." "Do not judge the spirits
by their purported names, but by the quality of the morals and the
philosophy found in their communications." "Do not let yourself be
too entertained with the evocation or incorporation of spirits
enough to disregard what is more important, like living your own
life and helping your neighbour." "Do not live by the spirits'
advice: the communications from the spirits are to be studied and
revered - but they should not be taken as the word-by-word
expression of the ultimate truth." "Do not judge the quality of the
communication by the culture or the social status of the medium by
which it was brought." As the New Testament states; Test the
Spirits dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the
spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false
prophets have gone out into the world. 1 John 4:1
All the powers of the universe are out there, ready and waiting for
us to call on and use to our advantage at any time. The problem
blocking most of us is our own thought habits. Through a series of
thought-provoking true stories about life, death, and spirit,
Beyond the Five Senses explores how each of us has the innate
capacity to empower ourselves and gain control over our lives.
"Nightshades is the record of one remarkable magician's exploration
of the inverse regions of the Tree of Life. Aleister Crowley's
Liber 231 provides the map and Kenneth Grant's Nightside of Eden a
travelogue. "Liber 231, apparently started life as a text within
the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, as an exercise to develop
astral and trance abilities or perhaps in other more elaborate
rites. The nightside aspect requires some care and alertness in
case of accident. The correct attitude is said to be one of self or
ego-less witness. Or maybe it's just one needs Or maybe it's just
one needs the use of an all-embracing rather than a limited kind of
identity and self-identification?" "The Nightside is always with
us. It's so much older than the Dayside. Before the light began to
shine, the night was there. Some assume that we are dealing with a
simple polarity. On one hand the radiant world of colours and
forms, more or less thinkable, reasonable and meaningful. Like the
pretty picture of the Tree of Life it has its scenic cites, its
hotels, restaurants, shopping opportunities and highways in
between. On the other hand the chaotic world of uncertain and
incomprehensible mysteries. Both of them connected by the voidness
that makes them possible. It looks symmetrical. But when you reach
the Nightside it doesn't work like that. The Nightside is not
simply a reflection of the dayside with a few confusing and spooky
bits thrown in. The Dayside is a tiny island of experience in a
huge ocean, the Nightside, full of currents, island chains and
continents of the possible and impossible. All and Nothing are
present everywhere. Our island is not the opposite of the
world-ocean, it is simply a tiny and comprehensible part of it."
Jan Fries Nightshades comprises 72 intense drawings prefaced by an
explanatory essay detailing the background and genesis of this
ultimate magical adventure.
The Secret of Inner Presence begins with author Lin Lipetz's
story of her spontaneous spiritual awakening in 1986. Her spiritual
awakening created an immediate awareness of a loving Inner Presence
within her heart and a connection to another higher level of peace,
contentment, and greater knowledge. She now knows that Inner
Presence waits patiently to manifest itself within each person, and
much of The Secret of Inner Presence is about providing the keys to
bring about that shift in consciousness.
As each of the eleven keys is practiced and experienced, the
transformation toward a more complete understanding of the
core-self will gradually evolve through the loving guidance of the
conscious Universe. One of the eleven keys opens the way to
intuitively listen to the many voices that will assist in this
transformation of the core-self-through healing, new insights,
dreams, problem solving, and caring advice. Another key opens the
way to deepen intuitively to the level of receiving messages from
the Universe and possibly finding the guides that have been
available since birth. This process is called Stream of
Consciousness writing, and the powerful dialogues and inspirational
poems the author has received in this way for many years are found
in each chapter.
Chapter by chapter, each of the eleven keys is presented, by
both the spiritual Universe and the author, to help guide the
reader to a higher dimension of the self.
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