A uniquely serious and accessible introduction to the life and work of the mysterious sixteenth-century seer Michel de Nostradamus.
From his predictions about life and death in the Middle French court of Catherine de' Medici to his uncannily suggestive preconceptions of World War II, Michel de Nostradamus has aroused continual fascination-and commercialization-in the West. Today, many search his elliptical "centuries"-or collected verses-for new truths about 9/11 and End Times, while supermarket tabloids routinely falsify and exploit his pronouncements.
What is the difference between prophecy and prediction, and how has it led to a misuse of the ideas of Nostradamus, as well as those of other post-biblical prognosticators? What is the nature of the oracular tradition in the West-stretching back to the oracle at Delphi-and how can Nostradamus be understood from this perspective? In The Essential Nostradamus, the highly regarded spiritual thinker and writer Richard Smoley provides a true sourcebook in the life and messages of one of history's most peculiar figures.
This volume offers a host of advantages beyond other collections of Nostradamus's work. Many commentators on Nostradamus take liberties in their translations, further confusing the matter of what the prophetic quatrains actually said. In "The Essential Nostradamus," Smoley presents a fresh, scholarly, and literal translation of Nostradamus's Middle French, allowing readers to make their own determination as to the passages' historical references and accuracy.
Smoley also supplies detailed commentary on Nostradamus's key quatrains, with a sharp eye toward the political and social events of the writer'sera-elements that many commentators overlook or fail to grasp. An authoritative biographical essay-highlighting Nostradamus's separate roles as physician, astrologer, and prognosticator-rounds out the volume to create a truly essential exposition of the work of one of Western culture's most mysterious men.

Practical Mental Influence and Telepathy: Its Theory, Facts, and Proof.

Mr. Wood presents a restorative system for home and private use, preceded by a study of the laws of mental healing. Suggestion of some kind is the great mental motor. It may enter the human mind either in thought waves projected by another mind, or through the avenue of an outer sense. Hypnotic suggestion stirs the mind on the sensuous plane by the dominant imposition of the force of another personality. Ideal suggestion is the photographing of pure and perfect ideals directly upon the mind through the medium of the sense of sight. Contents: laws of mental healing; ideal suggestion; meditations and suggestions.

The following pages aim at presenting in brief compass a selection of the evidence upon which the hypothesis of thought transference, or telepathy, is based. Contents: experimental transference of simple sensations in the normal state; experimental transference of simple sensations with hypnotized percipients; experimental production of movements and other effects; experimental production of telepathic effects at a distance; general criticism of the evidence for spontaneous thought transference; transference of ideas and emotions; coincident dreams; hallucination in general; induced telepathic hallucinations; spontaneous telepathic hallucinations; collective hallucinations; some less common types of telepathic hallucination; clairvoyance in trance; clairvoyance in the normal state; theories and conclusions.

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It is a strange and almost amusing fact that there should be at the same time, on the part of the general public, such a general acceptance of the existence of personal magnetism, on the one hand, and such an ignorance of the nature of this wonderful force, on the other hand.-from Chapter 1, "Personal Magnetism"The New Thought movement of the turn of the twentieth century combined Christian spirituality with paranormal power in an effort to give practical expression to the forces of the universe. Or so its proponents believed. One of the most influential thinkers of this early "New Age" philosophy promises here, in this 1913 book, to show the reader "how to develop your personality" and "how to develop a dominating influence" through such exercises as: . Projecting Nerve Force. Mental Radiation. The Positive Aura. The Magnetic Duel. Magnetic Self-Defence. The Power of Controlling OthersThe roots of today's groundswell for self-help, personal empowerment, and pop spirituality can be explored in this one small, highly entertaining book.Also available from Cosimo Classics: The Advanced Course in Personal Magnetism, by Theron Q. Dumont.American writer WILLIAM WALKER ATKINSON (1862-1932)-aka Theron Q. Dumont-was born in Baltimore and had built up a successful law practice in Pennsylvania before professional burnout led him to the religious New Thought movement. He served as editor of the popular magazine New Thought from 1901 to 1905, and as editor of the journal Advanced Thought from 1916 to 1919. He authored dozens of New Thought books-including Arcane Formula or Mental Alchemy and Vril, or Vital Magnetism-under numerous pseudonyms, some of which are likely still unknown today.

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The object of this book is to outline a method of scientific inquiry concerning the powers, attributes and destiny of the soul, and to specifically point out and classify a sufficient number of the well authenticated facts of psychic science to demonstrate the fact of a future life for mankind. Contents: defectiveness of the old arguments; spiritism and hypnotism; spiritistic phenomena; ancient psychic phenomena; advent of Jesus; intuitive perception of truth; psychic phenomena of primitive Christians; modern psychic phenomena; has man a soul; duality demonstrated by anatomy; duality demonstrated by evolution; distinctive faculties of the soul; faculties belonging to a future life; dynamic forces of the mind; affectional emotions of the soul.

The Author's purpose of this book is to tell what he and others, under careful test conditions, have seen and heard in regard to psychic phenomena; many of the others are well equipped, trained observers. Funk is not attempting to discover anything; but is attempting to state clearly a problem and to urge others, better qualified, to the discovery of its solution. He did not pass upon the facts presented in this volume or attempt an explanation, but he wishes to urge as forcefully upon the scientific mind of the world what to him is a profound riddle.

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A practical guide to those who aspire to claivoyance-absolute. Original, and selected from various European and Asiatic adepts. Clairvoyance is the art and power of knowing or cognizing facts, things and principles, by methods totally distinct from those usually pursued in their attainment. The author claims to have reduced it to a system and to have evolved science from heterogeneity; to have added new thought, new conception and to have discovered the central magnetic law, underlying the evolutions of somnambulic phenomena.

This work discusses thought transference based on the newly discovered laws of radio communication between brain and brain. It is a complete and up to date system of lessons in the science and practice of thought interpretation for all uses in life, and is preceded by thirty-six lessons in the study of mind and thought.

This work meets the demand for a concise exposition of the fundamental principals of psychical research, written in a manner that is easily understood by the average reader. Contents: what psychical research is; subconscious mind and its powers; telepathy; clairvoyance; premonitions; apparitions; haunted houses; physical phenomena; miscellaneous phenomena; modern laboratory investigations; mediumship, the evidence for survival; difficulties of communication.

Addendum by Brown Landone. Including what Old Nostradamus Predicted That Came True and what He Said Will Happen, By the Grand Duchess Marie of Russia and The Date of Hitler's Fall, by Pierre van Passen, Author of Days of Our Years.

This book contains detailed information on how to become a natural healer, psychic and clairvoyant.

Everyone has the inborn gift to heal themselves and others. One of the most powerful, tried and tested natural healing methods, Reiki, originated in Japan and adopted in the West. It is a non intrusive technique and is based on healing methods, known for millennia, and is now used throughout the World.

The basic concepts of Reiki can be learnt, under the supervision and tutelage of a Reiki Master, and used effectively in a short period of time. It is easily learnt and can be immediately used to effect holistic healing of the mind, body and spirit.

We have found that Natural Healing can be complemented by increasing the intuitive awareness of the healer. This can be accomplished by developing the natural psychic abilities that we all possess. Simple, safe tried and tested step-by-step methods are presented, which can be learnt under experienced teachers, to increase your intuition and become clairvoyant.

The cause of many illnesses can be traced back to a forgotten event in a person's current or previous lifetime(s). Using regression, the event is recalled and treatment of the symptoms and ailment arising from the event can begin using either natural healing or through conventional medicine. Such events can be accessed using our inborn gift of clairvoyance.

Reiki is

A means of awakening the healing powers already within you; A simple, safe technique which can be learnt easily and quickly; A method of healing the body, mind and spirit; A way to inner peace and happiness; Complementary to conventional medicine

Reiki is not

Associated with any religion orcult; A form of hypnosis or mind control; A form of psychic or magnetic healing

Book One Pathway to God is an autobiographical account of one person's ESP experiences in the search for truth. The names and places have been fictionalized for obvious reasons. Book Two Running from Quicksand describes the difficulties that make life unbearable for the truth seeker who reveals truth in public. Book Three Fighting the Quicksand is an account of the truth seeker's determination to speak the truth in a false world.

The author, devoting more than forty-five years to psychical research, presents in this book his definite conclusions on the subject. Some of the following chapters appeared in The Journal and in other publications. Contents: new spiritual awakening; haunted houses; Eusapia Palladino; greatest mental medium of all time, Mrs. Piper; laboratory investigations in psychic phenomena; trumpet mediums; intra-atomic quantity; poltergeist phenomena; how spirit pictures are faked; psychic photographs; visions and voices of Jeanne D'Arc (Joan of Arc); problem of the mind-body relation; free will and determinism in the light of psychic phenomena; yoga and magic.

The facts stated within this book intend in no way whatsoever to reflect upon the investigator, student or medium of psychic science, but are recorded with the desire to assist correct understanding of spirit return. Contents: introduction to psychic science; orthodox denunciation; why psychic science churches are not prosperous; fraudulent sitters; advice to the sitter; whys of spirit return; spirit world; fallacy of evil spirits; self unfoldment; vibration; universal law; hints to the beginner student; mental and physical mediumship; chemistry of thought; false mediums and true; medium's mirror; questions and answers; modem prophets and prophecies.

Contents: superstition; witchcraft; Mohammedism; Adventism; Mormonism; power of the mind; hypnotism; spiritualism; mental medicine; Christian Science; some latter day delusions; common sense in religion; gospel of Christ a cure for all delusions.

A scientific demonstration of its existence and the laws and methods of its operation, including a complete course of lessons in the study and practice of thought transference in individual lives. This volume is not experimental. Faithful students have tested the methods prescribed for a better understanding of a faculty which was receiving its first scientific recognition at the hands of careful and conscientious investigators fifteen years earlier. The aim of the author is to rescue a noble theme from the hands of charlatans and pretenders who have played upon the superstition of the public and have taken advantage of the mystery that seems to surround the subconscious operation of the mind.

1901. This is Series D, and the last volume, in a course of lessons published by The Psychic Research Company. The lessons in this volume deal with Psychometry Phrenology, Palmistry, Astrology, Mediumship and Somnopathy (a term coined by the author for the method of educating the young during natural sleep).

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