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Books > Health, Home & Family > Mind, body & spirit > Psychic powers, ESP > General
Welcome to a world of subversive literature filled with magical
wisdom and the decoding of the occult. In this volume, author
Azazel Rama explores the ancient secrets of astral travel and
reveals a doorway to the multiverse of endless potential. He then
reveals how the heretical views of science and nature can slay the
dragon of religion with common sense. This is not a self-help
seminar filled with happy sunshine, nonsense codes, and false
rainbows; this is a journey into the forbidden. "The Church of the
Free Mind" has opened its gates, and within this Holy Temple no
messiah shall be said to exist.
Written as a diatribe against words, this is the true philosophy
of a snake swallowing its own tail. Behold the self-consuming god
that exists within the flesh and souls of all living beings. Embark
upon a spiritual exploration of a higher order of freedom as it
relates to an unconsciously connected society of human animals, and
learn the moral codes of Mother Nature as she echoes a sense of
natural law through the depths of our collective being. This
collection of essays proposes a way to enter a new cycle of human
understanding.
Children who claim to remember a previous life have been found
in many parts of the world, particularly in the Buddhist and Hindu
countries of South Asia, among the Shiite peoples of Lebanon and
Turkey, the tribes of West Africa, and the American northwest.
Stevenson has collected over 2,600 reported cases of past-life
memories of which 65 detailed reports have been published. Specific
information from the children's memories has been collected and
matched with the data of their claimed former identity, family,
residence, and manner of death. Birthmarks or other physiological
manifestations have been found to relate to experiences of the
remembered past life, particularly violent death. Writing as a
specialist in psychiatry and as a world-renowned scientific
investigator of reported paranormal events, Stevenson asks us to
suspend our Western tendencies to disbelieve in reincarnation and
consider the reality of the burgeoning record of cases now
available. This book summarizes Stevenson's findings which are
presented in full in the multi-volume work entitled "Reincarnation
and Biology: A Contribution to the Etiology of Birthmarks and Birth
DefectS," also published by Praeger.
Cassandra Eason's unique directory offers accessible information on
more than 150 crystals. Each crystal is explored in detail and set
in context with its associated mythology, herbs, oils, incenses and
astrological significance. Divided into sections by colour, the
book describes methods of crystal healing, colour wisdom, ways of
working with chakras and aura, and the basics of crystal divination
and magic. Learn how to select crystals that are protective and
empowering, and how to use them in the workplace, home and with
children, plants and animals. You'll also discover how to make the
most of crystals in the modern world: for decision-making and for
cleansing homes and workplaces of pollution, the adverse effects of
technology and negative earth energies. This book is not only a
comprehensive reference work for beginners and crystal experts
alike, it is also an essential workbook, whether you use crystals
to bring peace to your home or are a healer looking for new ideas.
Geraldine Cummins's fourth book, The Road to Immortality written in
1932, is a series of communications allegedly from F. W. H. Myers,
the eminent psychologist and psychical researcher, who departed
from the earth plane in1901. Communicating from the 'other side'
Myers gives us a glorious vision of the progression of the human
spirit through eternity. In the Introduction Beatrice Gibbes
described the method of communication employed by Cummins. "She
would sit at a table, cover her eyes with her left hand and
concentrate on "stillness." She would then fall into a light trance
or dream state. Her hand would then begin to write. In one sitting,
Gibbes stated, Cummins wrote 2,000 words in 75 minutes, whereas her
normal compositions were much slower-perhaps 800 words in seven or
eight hours." Gibbes added that she witnessed the writing of about
50 different personalities, all claiming to be 'dead, ' and all
differing in character and style, coming through Cummins' hand.
Communicating through Cummins, Myers stated: "We communicate an
impression through the inner mind of the medium.... Sometimes we
only send the thoughts and the medium's unconscious mind clothes
them in words." Speaking of God Myers explains; The term God means
the Supreme Mind, the Idea behind all life, the Whole in terms of
pure thought, a Whole within which is cradled the Alpha and Omega
of existence as a mental concept. Every act, every thought, every
fact in the history of the Universes, every part of them, is
contained within that Whole. Therein is the original concept of
all. Now considered a classic in afterlife literature, The Road to
Immortality takes us on a journey we may all repeat some day, and
with Myers as our guide, the journey is spectacular.
Since WW II, 'channeling' has largely replaced older styles of
mediumship in the movement loosely known as the New Age. Yet the
two are intimately related. As both historical chronicle and
metaphysical critique, The Spiritist Fallacy, together with its
companion volume, Theosophy: History of a Pseudo-Religion, is a
valuable study of New Age origins. Guenon takes the 'spirit
manifestations' of the Fox sisters in Hydesville, New York (in
1847) as his starting-point, but while accepting the reality of
many such 'manifestations', denies that they represent the spirits
of the departed. He sees them, rather, as fostering belief in a
kind of rarefied materialism, as though the 'spirit of the
deceased' were no more than an invisible, quasi-material body, and
death no more than a 'shedding' of the physical body while the
'spirit' remains otherwise unchanged-a belief widespread today in
popular culture. The author demonstrates how various 'spirit
philosophies' are little more than reflections of their own
milieux-'English spirits' being conservative and denying
reincarnation, 'French spirits' accepting reincarnation and
espousing progressivist or revolutionary ideas, etc. antiquity with
haunted houses suddenly, in the 19th century-and within five years
of their appearance-spawned an international pseudo-religious
movement, speculating that certain magicians (possibly from the
Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor) may have intentionally produced the
Hydesville phenomena by actively projecting hidden influences upon
the passive psyches of their mediums. The mutual influence of
Spiritism and Theosophy, and the adverse affects of 'spirit
entities' upon many mediums, are also covered in considerable
detail. The Spiritist Error is both an expose of 'unconscious
Satanism' and a highly useful critique of the false ideas of the
afterlife which are so prevalent in our time.
""The End-of-the-World Delusion" is a well-written, thoroughly
researched, and very readable book. Deering's lively narrative
makes complex and complicated topics accessible to the average
reader. He certainly pulled me into his book despite my cynical
view of the topic. Deering offers the reader riveting histories of
end-of-the world beliefs and covers an extraordinary array of
ground in this well-researched book, discussing everything from the
Mayan end-of-times predictions, Christian rapture beliefs,
pandemics, economic doomsday scenarios, and other apocalyptic
predictions."
-Robert Watson, PhD, author/editor of thirty-four books,
including "The Presidents' Wives" and "America's War on Terror"
People from many different corners of civilization seem to be
saying the same thing: the end is near. In The End-of-the-World
Delusion, author Justin Deering explores such scenarios, discussing
why they are not likely to occur or have any visible impact on this
planet within our lifetime.
Providing a thorough analysis, Deering chronicles the numerous
instances of such predictions throughout history, examines frequent
religious and cultural sources of these end-of-world claims,
analyzes the sociological and psychological dynamics and dangers,
and outlines other forms of end-times beliefs, ranging from
religious to pop culture in nature. The End-of-the-World Delusion
provides concrete information that helps evaluate these dubious
assertions, relates how such beliefs have harmed individuals and
society, and talks about why people are inclined to nurture such
beliefs in the first place.
Setting the record straight by detailing the history of failed
doomsdays, Deering shows that nothing can be gained by worrying
about the end of time, and that we must learn a lesson from the
past, live in the present, and plan for the future.
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
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international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
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