Graphology, in English and American manuals of handwriting, stands in the relation with all other pseudo-sciences, founded on half truths and wrought with superstition and amateur fads, compared to modern science. In this book, the author attempts to put before the English public the fundamental principles, methods and laws of scientific graphology. Contents: common objections to graphology and their refutation; history of graphology; physiology and psychology of writing; random test of the correctness of methods explained; practical hints for drawing up of graphological analyses; specimens of analysis.

A unique self-help guide to dream interpretation using techniques and icons from cultures around the world.

- Challenges the assumption that all symbols universally signify the same thing to all dreamers.

- Includes numerous stories, games, and exercises for inducing, recalling, interpreting, and utilizing dreams.

- Extends beyond Jung and Freud to include dream theory from numerous world cultures, including the Temiar of Malaya, the African Ibans, the Lepchka of the Himalayas, and the Ute of North America.

Dreaming can be used as a tool for understanding our own consciousness, enhancing creativity, receiving visions, conquering fears, interpreting recent events, healing the body, and evolving the soul. Tapping into the vast dreaming experiences and lore of the world's cultures--from the Siwa people of the Libyan desert to the Naskapi Indians of Labrador--Sarvananda Bluestone challenges the assumption that all symbols universally signify the same thing to all dreamers. "The World Dream Book" encourages readers to develop their own, personalized symbols for understanding their consciousness and provides a series of stories, multicultural techniques, and games to help them do so.

Playful explorations, such as the aboriginal "Sipping the Water of the Moon," teach how to induce, recall, interpret, and utilize the power of dreams. Readers will discover how a stone under a pillow can help us remember a dream and will explore their own dormant artist and writer as they reclaim the power of their sleeping consciousness. Sarvananda Bluestone applies his uniquely engaging style to demonstrate that, with a few simple tools, everybody has the capacity to unleash their fulldreaming potential.

A practical guide to palmistry by a practitioner of the art, adapted from the works of the world's most renowned palmists. Illustrated with twenty full-page illustrations. Contents: Preface; Chirognomy: Shapes of the hand (discussing the various types and forms of hand); Chiromancy (showing what the hand predicts).

This book is an entirely new version of the I Ching. It is the result of discovering a totally new way of consulting the oracle. I Ching: The Oracle of the Cosmic Way is a book that shows two layers of text, side by side, one layer being the feudal overlays over the original oracle text, the other showing the 'Cosmic Way' - the Cosmic Principles that are the subject of each hexagram.

Volume one of a two volume set. (This description is for all volumes.) To Which is Added an Appendix of the Most Remarkable and Best Authenticated Stories of Apparitions, Dreams, Second Sight, Somnambulism, Predictions, Divination, Witchcraft, Vampires, Fairies, Table-Turning, and Spirit Rapping. Translated by William Howitt. Extremely scarce, this is a foundational work on magic and mysticism! Contents: Author's Preface; Of Magic and its Branches in General; Theoretical Views on Magic Among the Ancients; Magnetism among the Ancient Nations especially the Orientals, Egyptian, and Israelites; Magic among the Greek and Romans; Magic in Mythology; Magic of the Germans; Mystic Doctrines and Endeavors after a Philosophical Elucidation of the Magic of the Middle Ages; Apparitions; Haunted Houses; Dreams; Second Sight; Trance and Somnambulism; Ecstasy; Predictions; Divination; Witchcraft; Vampires; Amulets and Charms; Narcotics; Fairies; Spiritual Manifestations.

An intriguing story that offers solutions for the prosperity, benefit, stability and happiness of mankind.

An expert on the 16th-century physician-astrologer and seer translates and comments on Nostradamus's predictions concerning the last two decades of the 20th century.

Has Nostradamus predicted the coming Apocalypse along with a thousand other great events? His believers claim that in the 1500s he predicted historic milestones that have or will alter the course of human history, such as the rise of Napoleon and Hitler. Published here are the hard to find original English translations from 1672 to help you answer that question. Finally, you can look through the actual work of Nostradamus to see if you can solve his riddles. He scribed over a thousand quatrains that cover events from the 1500s to the year 3797. Since these were translated by Theodore Garencieres, before the rise of the first two antichrists, they are untainted with the bias of current events. See if you can unravel the hidden meaning of his quatrains and discover his vision of the future. Plagued by the Inquisition, Nostradamus was notorious for obfuscating his meaning with anagrams, symbolism, and mythological allusions. Study of his work can be a fascinating hobby or intellectual exercise that can be quite enjoyable. What great event will be discovered next in this cryptic text?

We all want to know what will happen to the earth and to those who come after us, our children and our grandchildren. Diane, seeking an answer, has gone to women visionaries and seers: women who channel the future and those who bring it to life in their writings: Sally Miller Gearhart, Sheri Tepper, and Marge Piercy. This is the time, Diane avers, for women to define what needs changing and begin to do the work. By women's power of thought and creation, we together can make a better world.

Geographical location gives us the different races of earth. A man is a white man, a black man, an Indian, a Mongolian, and so on, according as his forefathers found a dwelling place in this or that portion of the plant on which we live. Each and every human being in God's universe is constructed upon the same general plan.

As the millennium approaches, interest increases in the prophecies of Nostradamus. This volume explains how to decipher and uncover the Nostradamus method for obtaining predictions.

How to Read Your Fate in a Teacup. Divination by Tea-leaves; Practice and Method of Reading the Cup; General Theories; Divination as an Amusement and as a More Serious Study; Hints for Diviners; Writing in the Tea-leaves, Some Frequent Symbols; Nelros Cup; Dictionary of Symbols and their Meaning; Some Example Cups. Illustrations.

Also the Infallible Divination by Means of Figures or Arithmomancy of Count Cagliostro. Here's Divination at its best!

Contents: Astrology; The Ancient Oracles; Fortune-Telling by Cards, Dice, and Dominoes; The Science of Palmistry, Phrenology, and Physiognomy; Fortune-Telling by Grounds in a Teacup; Dreams and their Interpretation; The Language of the Flowers; Popular Beliefs Among the Ancients as to the Influence of Precious Stones; The Language of Postage Stamps; The Meaning of Moles; Weather Prophecies; How to be Beautiful; Memory Rhymes.

The Essential Career & Business Guide for those who give Readings. Who else but Sasha Fenton could produce a guide like this one? Together with her husband Jan Budkowski, who adds over thirty years of financial & banking experience, Sasha's quater century of professional experience as internationally renowned astrologer, tarot reader, palmist, psychic and author with sales of over 6 million copies of her books, Sasha extracts from personal experience the best ways to start up & run your own spiritual business, whether as astrologer, or any other speciality.

Body twitches are facts from ancient babylon sciences and wisdom, twitches are instant vibes whithin our body and soul, these vibes are near future messages could be surprise or warning signals. I hope you will find your guide to to body twitches, and understand the psychic ability we all do have. Good luck Alya Zona

Despite its widespread popularity in antebellum America, phrenology has rarely been taken seriously as a cultural phenomenon. Charles Colbert seeks to redress this neglect by demonstrating the important contributions the theory made to artistic developments in the period. He goes on to reveal the links between the tenets of phrenology and the cultural ideals of Jacksonian democracy. As Colbert demonstrates, virtually every important figure of the American Renaissance expressed some opinion of phrenology, whether or not they embraced it. Its proponents included many artists eager to support a cause that enhanced the status of their profession by endowing the human form with extraordinary significance. Colbert reviews the careers of Hiram Powers, William Sidney Mount, Harriet Hosmer, Asher B. Durand, and Thomas Cole, among others, in light of their responses to phrenology. Powers's "Greek Slave," for example, can be seen as a model of the physical and moral perfection available to those who adopted the phrenological program, a series of dictates on everything from diet to mental and physical exercise. By creating portraits, genre scenes, ideal figures, and even landscapes that embodied the theory's teachings, Colbert shows, artists endeavored to enlist their audience in a crusade that would transform the nation.
Originally published in 1997.
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