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Books > Mind, Body & Spirit > Unexplained phenomena / the paranormal > General
'A major work ... an extraordinary tour de force, [this book] will
materially help to bring both sides (science and paranormal
studies) together in a way which could lead to real and important
advances in our view of the universe' - New Scientist First
published in 1978, Mysteries is the powerful and enlightening
sequel to The Occult, continuing Colin Wilson's investigations into
the paranormal, the occult and the supernatural. The experience of
his own panic attacks gave Wilson his insight into the concept of
the ladder or hierarchy of selves with which we are all associated.
In this book he fully explores this idea of multiple selves,
explaining how our lower, childish selves are linked to depression
and anxiety. The book offers an optimistic message to counteract
our contemporary tendency towards pessimism and nihilism:
purposeful activity will always allow us to call on our higher
selves and bring concentration, control and a sense of meaning into
life. Wilson uses the concept of the multi-personality to explain a
wide range of paranormal phenomenon, from dowsing and demonic
possession to precognition and spoon-bending, and he analyses the
work of all the big names in 20th-century supra-rational research
(from T C Lethbridge to Margaret Murray to Carl Jung) from this
perspective. The story ranges widely, from the stone circles to
1960s LSD adventures, and Wilson's analysis is woven with hundreds
of entertaining paranormal anecdotes and case studies taken from
throughout history, including his own experiences of dowsing at the
Merry Maidens stone circle and of visions and lucid dreaming.
Hauntings lurk and spirits linger in the heart of America Reader,
beware! Turn these pages and enter the world of the paranormal,
where ghosts and ghouls alike creep just out of sight. Author James
A. Willis shines a light in the dark corners of Ohio and scares
those spirits out of hiding in this thrilling collection. From
ghostly soldiers that still haunt Fort Meigs to the eerie Franklin
Castle, there's no shortage of bone-chilling tales to keep you up
at night. There's even a carved tombstone of an infant at Cedar
Hill cemetery, whose ghostly eyes keep watch over those wander too
close. Around the campfire or tucked away on a dark and stormy
night, this big book of ghost stories is a hauntingly good read.
Uri Geller would love to write a book revealing himself as a
trickster. It would be an instant bestseller: people around the
world would be thrilled to know that he really did fool the CIA and
Mossad, and scientists at the Stanford Research Institute and the
University of London. But he can't do it, because he knows that his
psychic powers are real - just as yours are, too! This is a guide
to releasing your PSI-FORCE and using it for whatever purpose you
want. Your psi-force will help you excel at sport, outsmart your
boss, win at games, make friends, attract a lover, overcome illness
and depression, come to terms with disaster, be a financial
success, and, above all, be happy and content. But you must learn
to channel your psychic powers your way. Uri will teach you how to
get the best out of your particular talent using the dynamic force
that is in you already, just waiting to be awakened. The book is
packed full of tests to assess your own psychic potential and
progress, as well as step-by-step guidance to connecting with and
using psi-force, from reading the intentions and thoughts of others
to out-psyching your boss and bank manager to drawing on psi-force
to manifest your desired outcomes.
The original THE BIBLE CODE - a phenomenal bestseller across the
world For 3000 years a code in the Bible has remained hidden. Now
it has been unlocked by computer - and it may reveal our future.
The code, broken by an Israeli mathematician, foretells events that
happened thousands of years after the Bible was written. It foresaw
both Kennedy assassinations, the Oklahoma bombing - everything from
World War II to Watergate, from the Holocaust to the Moon landing.
Published to a frenzy of media attention, THE BIBLE CODE became a
Number One bestseller.
From the bestselling author of "Communion" comes the mysterious
true story of how an unknown visitor barged into Streiber's hotel
room late one night--and imparted extraordinary lessons in personal
development and man's fate that challenge us to rethink every
assumption about the meaning of life.
At two-thirty in the morning of June 6, 1998, Whitley Streiber was
awakened by somebody knocking on his hotel room door. A man came
in, and everything he said was life-altering.
This is the unsettling and ultimately enlightening narrative of
what happened that night. Strieber was never really sure who this
strange and knowing visitor was--a "Master of Wisdom"? A figure
from a different realm of consciousness? A preternaturally
intelligent being? He called him the Master of the Key. The one
thing of which Strieber was certain is that both the man and the
encounter were real.
The main concern of the Master of the Key is to save each of us
from self-imprisonment. "Mankind is trapped," the stranger tells
Strieber. "I want to help you spring the trap." In a sweeping
exchange between Strieber and the stranger--which takes the form of
a classical student- teacher dialogue in pursuit of inner
understanding--the unknown man presents a lesson in human
potential, esoteric psychology, and man's fate. He illuminates why
man has been caught in a cycle of repeat violence and
self-destruction--and the slender, but very real, possibility for
release.
In its breadth and intimacy, "The Key" is on par with contemporary
metaphysical traditions, such as "A Course in Miracles," or even
with the dialogues of modern wisdom teachers, such as D.T. Suzuki
and Carl Jung.
Told with uncensored Southern wit and guidance, this inspirational
memoir "is a good primer on getting into the psychic realm"
(Booklist) and recounts the story of a Hollywood film executive who
journeys through the cosmic wilderness and, against all odds,
discovers psychic superpowers that radically transformed her life.
As a senior executive at one of the world's largest movie studios,
Julie Rieger spent her days marketing the imaginary stories of
ghosts, faeries, superheroes, aliens, and more fantastical
creatures. But after the devastating loss of her mother, the world
of make-believe became reality when Julie captured her first ghost
in a photograph and blew open a door to the Other Side. The Ghost
Photographer chronicles Julie's wild ride down the spiritual rabbit
hole. After a series of unexpected, mind-blowing, and sometimes
frightening encounters with the spirit realm, Julie was forced to
face this strange awakening, flying in the face of scientific dogma
and her own die-hard skepticism. Ultimately, she discovered that
what she thought she had lost with the death of her
mother-unconditional love-was in fact the greatest superpower one
can wield. "A hugely entertaining must-read for anyone who's ever
struggled with loss or wondered what might be beyond the veil of
our five senses" (Anita Moorjani, author of Dying To Be Me), The
Ghost Photographer offers insights into our relationship with the
spirit world, prayers and rituals for cleansing and protecting our
homes from unwanted ghosts, and guidance on how to develop our
intuition and sixth sense.
Completing our conscious evolution by releasing our collective fear
of catastrophes
- Explains how we are on the cusp of an era of incredible creative
growth
- Shows how we are about to overcome the collective fear caused by
ancient catastrophes as we awaken to the memories of our lost
prehistory
- Examines legendary cataclysms and scientific evidence of a highly
advanced global culture that disappeared 11,500 years ago
In this completely revised and expanded edition of
"Catastrophobia," bestselling author Barbara Hand Clow explains how
we are on the cusp of an age of incredible creative growth made
possible by restoring our lost prehistory. Examining legendary
cataclysms--such as the fall of Atlantis and the biblical
Flood--and the mounting geological and archaeological evidence that
many of these mythic catastrophes were actual events, she reveals
the existence of a highly advanced global maritime culture that
disappeared amid great earth changes and rising seas 14,000 to
11,500 years ago, nearly causing our species' extinction and
leaving humanity's collective psyche deeply scarred.
Tracing humanity's reemergence after these prehistoric
catastrophes, Clow explains how these events in the deep past
influence our consciousness today. Guided by Carl Johan Calleman's
analysis of the Mayan Calendar, she reveals that as the Earth's
26,000-year precessional cycle shifts, our evolution is
accelerating to prepare us for a new age of harmony and peace. She
explains how we are beginning a collective healing as ancient
memories of prehistory awaken in our minds and release our
unprocessed fear. Passed from generation to generation, this fear
has been responsible for our constant expectations of apocalypse.
She shows that by remembering and moving beyond the trauma of our
long lost past, we bring the era of cataclysms to an end and cross
the threshold into a time of extraordinary creative activity.
Moncure Daniel Conway (1832 1907), the son of a Virginian
plantation-owner, became a Unitarian minister but his anti-slavery
views made him controversial. He later became a freethinker, and
following the outbreak of the Civil War, which deeply divided his
own family, he left the United States for England in 1863. He
gained a reputation for being the 'least orthodox preacher in
London', and was acquainted with many figures in the literary and
scientific world, including Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin. In
this two-volume work, first published in 1879, Conway draws from
examples across the world to discuss the origins and decline of
beliefs in demons. In Volume 1, he classifies types of demon and
argues that the various types are personifications of the main
obstacles to 'primitive man': he finds in mythology across the
world examples of animal demons and demons of hunger, fire and
disease.
The inspiration for the film The Dark Divide starring David Cross
and Debra Messing, one of America's most esteemed natural history
writers takes to the hills in search of Bigfoot-and finds the
wildness within ourselves. Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to
investigate the legends of Sasquatch, Yale-trained ecologist Dr.
Robert Pyle treks into the unprotected wilderness of the Dark
Divide near Mount St. Helens, where he discovers both a giant
fossil footprint and recent tracks. On the trail of what he thought
was legend, he searches out Indians who tell him of an outcast
tribe, the Seeahtiks, who had not fully evolved into humans. A
handful of open-minded biologists and anthropologists counter the
tabloids Pyle studies, while rogue Forest Service employees and
loggers swear of a vast conspiracy to deep-six true stories of
unknown, upright hominoid apes among us. He attends Sasquatch Daze,
where he meets scientists, hunters, and others who have devoted
their lives to the search, only to realize that "these guys don't
want to find Bigfoot they want to be Bigfoot!" Since its original
publication, the author's fresh experiences and finds have been
added to his original work through an updated chapter. With an
evaluation of recent DNA evidence from Bigfoot hair and scat, the
study of speech phonemes in the "Sierra Sounds" purported Bigfoot
recordings, an examination of the impact of the wildly popular
Animal Planet series Bigfoot Hunters, the reemergence of the famous
Bob Gimlin into the Bigfoot community, and more, Walking With
Bigfoot keeps every Bigfoot enthusiast's mind wide open to one of
the biggest questions in the land and brings Pyle's work on the
"legend" of Bigfoot into the new century.
Take a fast-paced survey of the ghosties ghouls and associated
denizens of the country's haunted history with EHaunted America
FAQE. Tracing local ghost stories back to Native American legends
and then forward through horror tales both ancient and modern the
book revisits some of the best known haunted locales as well as
some of the most obscure creepy places in America.THDelving deep
into the cultural history of American hauntings EHaunted America
FAQE includes chapters on ghostly books movies and television. Also
included is an A-Z of reality-TV ghost hunts and a state-by-state
gazetteer of haunted spots.
A ghost-hunter's guide to Arizona's haunted hotels and inns.
Provides eye-witness accounts, legendary stories, and unsolved
mysteries at 29 open-to-the-public lodging establishments
throughout Arizona.
One of the most trusted reference works ever published on the
Cabala, now available in a deluxe hardcover edition. This book is a
complete guide to Cabalistic magic in which every demon, angel,
power, and name of God every Sephirah, Path, and Plane of the Tree
of Life and each attribute and association is fully described and
cross-indexed by the Hebrew, English, and numerical forms. An
invaluable reference tool for all Cabalists, pathworkers,
magicians, and scholars, Godwin s Cabalistic Encyclopedia explores
the most important terms from the Hebrew language, Freemasonry, the
Cthulhu mythos, the Aurum Solis, and much more.
The dark side of Milton Keynes is revealed; supernatural lore,
urban legends, symbolism and conspiracy. Cryptids, Satan, fairies,
witchcraft, relics and miracles. Strange deaths, mysteries, curses,
and unsettling folklore. Anyone interested in local history, even
for a relatively new town will find this fascinating. As will all
those who love ghosts and ghouls, witches and miracles. Mysterious
Milton Keynes delves into the urban legends, supernatural tales and
strange phenomena associated with the modern city of Milton Keynes.
The book explores the hidden symbolism behind the layout, buildings
and street installations: it explores local conspiracy theories and
shows how they are subtly revealed in road names, incidents and
stories throughout the city's contemporary history. From the
Devil's Olney residence, to the fairies of Bow Brickhill, the lid
is lifted upon the city's witchcraft, relics, miracles and
extensive supernatural lore. Take a walk on the wild side with the
unnatural creatures of the alien zoo which prowl the parks, suburbs
and waterways. There are strange deaths, mysteries, curses and
unsettling folklore which cannot easily be ignored.
London's shadowed alleyways, ancient buildings and misty open
spaces simply swarm with phantoms - spirits of the famous and the
forgotten, the lovelorn, the loveless, the damned, and the
damnable. Paranormal London takes the bold ghost seeker on a
hair-raising journey to visit and explore some of the capital's
spookiest places. We visit the haunts of murderers and sail on a
phantom boat. There are close encounters with chilling
manifestations at infamous No. 50 Berkeley Square and you can hear
wails and tormented screams from Jack the Ripper's eternally
restless victims as they roam the East End's cobbled streets. You
can find a headless duke, visit the graves of plague victims and
come into contact with an unseen force that tries to push you
downstairs. Many of the city's most famous landmarks are haunted,
but hundreds of lesser-known sites claim paranormal happenings -
pubs, hotels, parks and tunnels, churches, roads, Underground
stations, banks, cinemas, council estates and the lake in St
James's Park. If you are not a true believer in the paranormal when
you start to read this book, you will be by the end.
DRACULA is such an iconic figure that he has inspired hundreds of
films and television programmes for over a century. He has appeared
in over 215 films and, since its publication in 1897, Dracula has
never been out of print. Most people have a very strong image of
Dracula and for many the seaside town of Whitby in North Yorkshire
is a big part of this. Indeed, many of the scenes in Dracula were
places that Bram Stoker regularly visited. Ian Thompson has had a
lifelong interest in horror films and scary stories, and Dracula is
a story that has fascinated him. As a result, he has made many
pilgrimages to Whitby. In this fascinating book, the reader is
taken around Dracula's Whitby, to the very places Bram Stoker and
his Dracula frequented. This book will inspire not only fans of
Bram stoker's literary creation, but also visitors and residents
alike.
A clinical psychiatrist explores the effects of DMT, one of the
most powerful psychedelics known.
- A behind-the-scenes look at the cutting edge of psychedelic
research.
- Provides a unique scientific explanation for the phenomenon of
alien abduction experiences.
From 1990 to 1995 Dr. Rick Strassman conducted U.S.
Government-approved and funded clinical research at the University
of New Mexico in which he injected sixty volunteers with DMT, one
of the most powerful psychedelics known. His detailed account of
those sessions is an extraordinarily riveting inquiry into the
nature of the human mind and the therapeutic potential of
psychedelics. DMT, a plant-derived chemical found in the
psychedelic Amazon brew, ayahuasca, is also manufactured by the
human brain. In Strassman's volunteers, it consistently produced
near-death and mystical experiences. Many reported convincing
encounters with intelligent nonhuman presences, aliens, angels, and
spirits. Nearly all felt that the sessions were among the most
profound experiences of their lives.
Strassman's research connects DMT with the pineal gland,
considered by Hindus to be the site of the seventh chakra and by
Rene Descartes to be the seat of the soul. DMT: The Spirit Molecule
makes the bold case that DMT, naturally released by the pineal
gland, facilitates the soul's movement in and out of the body and
is an integral part of the birth and death experiences, as well as
the highest states of meditation and even sexual transcendence.
Strassman also believes that "alien abduction experiences" are
brought on by accidental releases of DMT. If used wisely, DMT could
trigger a period of remarkable progress in the
scientificexploration of the most mystical regions of the human
mind and soul.
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