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Books > Health, Home & Family > Mind, body & spirit > Psychic powers, ESP > General
When two dolphin lovers, Zeeep and Eeeoo-vowing to be together
forever -lose their lives in a poacher's snare, they learn their
next lives will be on land: Eeeoo becomes Sabrina, a comatose
little girl in Montreal, Canada and Zeeep becomes Xico, a
flea-ridden dog in a tiny village in Brazil. It seems the two will
never be together but the magic of fate relies on a higher knowing.
This crossover novel leads the reader on adventures with Xico the
dog through mystical travels visiting Otherworldly dimensions,
learning the world of healing. The two lovers eventually reunite in
Brazil where a famous shaman and psychic surgeon lives. When they
meet again, Xico has learned to be a medium and is helping the
shaman. He lovingly helps to initiate the healing of Sabrina. When
Sabrina's desperate mother steals Xico and takes him to Canada to
be with her daughter, the Brazilian villagers rally together to get
their "healing dog" back so he can do his God-given job.
When two "grave and serious" spirits began speaking to a French
academic through two young mediums and "completely revolutionized
his] ideas and convictions," Allan Kardec decided to set down these
spiritualistic revelations. The result electrified the high society
of the mid 19th century, which was already fascinated by "spirit
tapping" and other paranormalities, and earned Kardec-a pseudonym
his spirits commanded him to use-a place in this history of the
paranormal as the father of spiritism. Kardec "interviews" the
spirits, asking more than 1000 questions about morality, the nature
of the soul, the history of humanity, and more, including: . "Is
the soul reincarnated immediately after its separation from the
body?" . "Does the spirit remember his corporeal existence?" .
"Could two beings, who have already known and loved each other,
meet again and recognise one another, in another corporeal
existence?" . "What is to be thought of the signification
attributed to dreams?" . "Are good and evil absolute for all men?"
. "What is the aim of God in visiting mankind with destructive
calamities?" . "Is it possible for man to enjoy perfect happiness
upon the earth?" Promising nothing less than the secret of the
destiny of the human race, this extraordinary book, first published
in 1856, is as curious today as it was a century and a half ago.
French scholar HIPPOLYTE LEON DENIZARD RIVAIL (1804-1869), aka
Allan Kardec, was a longtime teacher of mathematics, astronomy, and
other scientific disciplines before turning to the paranormal.
There are seven levels in heaven, seven levels on Earth and seven
levels (steps) we all must go through before we can go home to
heaven. When you know your loved one is alive in heaven and you can
talk and even see them from time to time, it makes living a lot
easier. Your spirit visits them while you sleep. Each of us retains
our past lives in our own orb. Yes, we all have a purpose to live.
The belief in telepathy is still widely held and yet it remains much disputed by scientists. Roger Luckhurst explores the origins of the term in the late nineteenth century. Telepathy mixed physical and mental sciences, new technologies and old superstitions, and it fascinated many famous people in the late Victorian era: Sigmund Freud, Thomas Huxley, Henry James, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Oscar Wilde. This is an exciting and accessible study, written for general readers as much as scholars and students.
"True skepticism has nothing to do with disbelief," says Susan
Blackmore. "It is about taking people's claims seriously and trying
to understand them." As a starry-eyed student, Blackmore was
convinced of the reality of astral planes, telepathy, and life
after death. She was determined to devote her life to
parapsychology, but what she found wasn't what she had bargained
for. None of her cleverly devised experiments revealed a hint of
the psi she was seeking. In a determined effort to find it somehow,
she tested young children in play groups, trained students in
imagery and altered states of consciousness, and even put Tarot
cards to the test. She visited haunted houses and was regressed to
a "past life." Finally, accused of being a "psi-inhibitory
experimenter" with the power of abolishing paranormal effects, she
visited other, more successful, experimenters. Here she found only
errors in their experiments.
In this new and updated edition of The Adventures of a
Parapsychologist, Blackmore is at last at liberty to explain just
what she found in those ill-fated experiments at Cambridge. She
brings her story up to date in a lively and personal account of one
scientist's never-ending search for the paranormal.
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