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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Alternative belief systems > Contemporary non-Christian & para-Christian cults & sects > Spiritualism
Earth is undergoing a quantum energy change that will relocate life
to its next level. Part of the preparation for this is an increase
in channelled information from other densities. This book
elucidates what the universe and human nature looks like through
the eyes of the extraterrestrial Ra. Drawing expertly on this
information the author explains the seven densities (levels) of
consciousness, positive and negative life paths, and the
understanding of the complete unity of all things, called the Law
or Way of One. The author uses this information to dissolve current
Christian beliefs alchemically and then synthesise a new view of
Christianity that goes back to the original, human Jesus and
includes Big Bang science.
The authors' preoccupation with Indridi Indridason spans several
decades. Erlendur Haraldsson first read about him in the 1960s,
perhaps earlier. He joined the Psychology department at the
University of Iceland in 1973 and, during his course on paranormal
phenomena, he would regularly discuss Indridason, Iceland's most
prolific physical medium. Loftur Reimar Gissurarson, one of
Haraldsson's students, soon became interested and wrote his BA
thesis on Indridason (Gissurarson, 1984).Based on their research,
they co-authored a monograph entitled The Icelandic Physical Medium
Indridi Indridason, which was published in the Proceedings of the
Society for Psychical Research (Gissurarson and Haraldsson, 1989).
The monograph was subsequently reprinted partially and in full in
Renaitre 2000 in France, Luce e Ombra in Italy, and
Parapsykologiske Notiser in Norway.Loftur continued the work and
co-authored with William Swatos, the book Icelandic Spiritualism:
Mediumship and Modernity in Iceland (Swatos and Gissurarson, 1997),
much of it dealing with Indridi and the history of Mediums and
Spiritualism in Iceland.Shortly after the year 2000, two
Experimental Society minute books dating back to the Indridason
period were unexpectedly found that contained new information
(Haraldsson, 2009). Some time later, Haraldsson delved into the new
material which resulted in three major articles being published in
the Proceedings and the Journal of the Society for Psychical
Research (Haraldsson, 2011, 2012a) and the Journal of Scientific
Exploration (Haraldsson and Gerding, 2010). It soon became obvious
that only a book would do justice to Indridi, as he deserved to be
known to the wider international public. This is that book.
The Book that has been awaited for 54 years is now finally
published. The spiritual communiques, issued from the Plan of
Sublime Duty and named 'Onder Pioneer]' in 1959, were compiled by
Bedri Ruhselman. Since then they have been preserved in the safes
of notaries and banks. Now that their time has arrived after 54
years, they have now been published. The book in your hands is the
faithfully translated version of the original Turkish text. In The
Divine Order and The Universe you will find: * The unending rain of
knowledge starting from spirit and matter... * The true
comprehension of love; the advance from love towards the essence...
* Discovering existential freedom and planetary awakening... * The
implications of global warming, floods and earthquakes... * The
lessons we learn from natural events... * Spiritual preparation
through predicted facts about inevitable natural events..."
In classical antiquity, there was much interest in
necromancy--the consultation of the dead for divination. People
could seek knowledge from the dead by sleeping on tombs, visiting
oracles, and attempting to reanimate corpses and skulls. Ranging
over many of the lands in which Greek and Roman civilizations
flourished, including Egypt, from the Greek archaic period through
the late Roman empire, this book is the first comprehensive survey
of the subject ever published in any language.
Daniel Ogden surveys the places, performers, and techniques of
necromancy as well as the reasons for turning to it. He
investigates the cave-based sites of oracles of the dead at
Heracleia Pontica and Tainaron, as well as the oracles at the
Acheron and Avernus, which probably consisted of lakeside
precincts. He argues that the Acheron oracle has been long
misidentified, and considers in detail the traditions attached to
each site. Readers meet the personnel--real or imagined--of ancient
necromancy: ghosts, zombies, the earliest vampires, evocators,
sorcerers, shamans, Persian magi, Chaldaeans, Egyptians, Roman
emperors, and witches from Circe to Medea. Ogden explains the
technologies used to evocate or reanimate the dead and to compel
them to disgorge their secrets. He concludes by examining ancient
beliefs about ghosts and their wisdom--beliefs that underpinned and
justified the practice of necromancy.
The first of its kind and filled with information, this volume
will be of central importance to those interested in the rapidly
expanding, inherently fascinating, and intellectually exciting
subjects of ghosts and magic in antiquity.
One night, while sitting around the campfire with friends, Sinclair
Browning shared the story of her actress mother, who used to warm
up with breathing exercises before going on stage.
Trance states, prophesying, convulsions, fasting and other physical
manifestations were often regarded as signs that a person was
seized by spirits. In a book that sets out the pre-history of the
early modern European witch craze, Nancy Caciola shows how medieval
people decided whom to venerate as a saint infused with the spirit
of God and whom to avoid as a demoniac possessed of an unclean
spirit. This process of discrimination, known as the discernment of
spirits, was central to the religious culture of Western Europe
between 1200 and 1500. indistinguishable, a highly ambiguous set of
bodily features and behaviours were carefully scrutinized by
observers. Attempts to make decisions about individuals who
exhibited supernatural powers were complicated by the fact that the
most intense exemplars of lay spirituality were women, and the
fragile sex was deemed especially vulnerable to the snares of the
devil. Assessments of women's spirit possessions often oscillated
between divine and demonic interpretations. Ultimately, although a
few late medieval women visionaries achieved the prestige of
canonization, many more were accused of possession by demons.
Caciola analyzes a broad array of sources from saints' lives to
medical treatises, exorcists' manuals to miracle accounts, to find
that observers came to rely on the discernment of bodies rather
than seeking to distinguish between divine and demonic possession
in purely spiritual terms.
Your self, aware presence, knows no resistance to any appearance
and, as such, is happiness itself; like the empty space of a room,
it cannot be disturbed and is, therefore, peace itself; like this
page, it is intimately one with whatever appears on it and is thus
love itself; and like water that is not affected by the shape of a
wave, it is pure freedom. Causeless joy, imperturbable peace, love
that knows no opposite, and freedom at the heart of all
experience...this is your ever-present nature under all
circumstances. Our self, aware presence, knows no resistance to any
appearance and, as such, is happiness itself; like the empty space
of a room, it cannot be disturbed and is, therefore, peace itself;
like this page, it is intimately one with whatever appears on it
and is thus love itself; and like water that is not affected by the
shape of a wave, it is pure freedom. Causeless joy, imperturbable
peace, love that knows no opposite, and freedom at the heart of all
experience...this is our ever-present nature under all
circumstances.
This is an eye-opening book; it is a heart-opening book. In Book
Two, Michael breaks new frontiers in his journeys with Pan, the
Spirit of Nature, as he leads the reader into realms and realities
that uncover and resolve shocks and surprises. Journeys with Pan
lead to self-discovery and self-acceptance while following the
emotional-trail of our most base expressions . . . and the
exhilarating soul-trail of unconditional Love. And the journeys
with Pan continue . . .
An unabridged, unaltered edition to include: The Law of Vibration -
Thought Waves - Mental Induction - Mental Concentration - Mental
Imaging - Fascination - Hypnotic Influence - Influencing at a
Distance - Influencing "En Masse" - The Need of the Knowledge -
Magic Black and White - Self-Protection
Spiritualism is often dismissed by literary critics and historians
as merely a Victorian fad. Helen Sword demonstrates that it
continued to flourish well into the twentieth century and seeks to
explain why. Literary modernism, she maintains, is replete with
ghosts and spirits. In Ghostwriting Modernism she explores
spiritualism's striking persistence and what she calls "the vexed
relationship between mediumistic discourse and modernist literary
aesthetics."Sword begins with a brief historical review of popular
spiritualism's roots in nineteenth-century literary culture. In
subsequent chapters, she discusses the forms of mediumship most
closely allied with writing, the forms of writing most closely
allied with mediumship, and the thematic and aesthetic alliances
between popular spiritualism and modernist literature. Finally, she
accounts for the recent proliferation of a spiritualist-influenced
vocabulary (ghostliness, hauntings, the uncanny) in the works of
historians, sociologists, philosophers, and especially literary
critics and theorists.Documenting the hitherto unexplored
relationship between spiritualism and modern authors (some
credulous, some skeptical), Sword offers compelling readings of
works by James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, H.D., James
Merrill, Sylvia Plath, and Ted Hughes. Even as modernists mock
spiritualism's ludicrous lingo and deride its metaphysical
excesses, she finds, they are intrigued and attracted by its
ontological shiftiness, its blurring of the traditional divide
between high culture and low culture, and its self-serving tendency
to favor form over content (medium, so to speak, over message).
Like modernism itself, Sword asserts, spiritualism embraces rather
than eschews paradox, providing an ideological space where
conservative beliefs can coexist with radical, even iconoclastic,
thought and action.
A short to-the-point paper on the psychic cause of sleep paralysis,
how to manage it and decrease incidences. The relationship between
sleep paralysis and astral projection is explained. The methods of
decreasing the incidences of sleep paralysis, increasing dream
recall and being objectively conscious during astral projections is
described. The most revealing part of this paper is the author's
description of his sleep paralysis states and what he did to
contain these, get out of these and cause his psychic self to
separated from and to fuse into the physical body without an
incidence.
This book is not quite like other books about the Titanic. As the
title suggests, it is an attempt to explore the more transcendental
aspects of the Titanic story - those suggesting a non-mechanistic
universe. The subjects include premonitions, apparitions,
out-of-body experiences, telepathic communication among the living,
and after-death communication, many related to the Titanic
passengers, others offered in support of the Titanic phenomena.
Many of them have to do with other ocean tragedies. Chief among the
Titanic passengers in this book is William T. Stead, a British
journalist, who did not survive the disaster but apparently
survived in another dimension, from which he communicated in the
weeks following his death. . The Titanic story offers us the
opportunity to examine death in a safe haven with the added bonus
that, unlike most stories involving death, the parties actually
have time to contemplate theirs death, some to escape, some to
succumb. More than any other modern story, the Titanic might be
viewed as a microcosm of life, a "community" isolated in the vast
reaches of the ocean, one offering wealth and poverty, the opulence
of first class and the ordinariness of steerage class, with a
middle or second class in between. Every type of emotion, mindset,
virtue and vice is represented - love and fear, hope and despair,
bravery and cowardice, arrogance and humbleness, pomp and shame,
selfishness and brotherhood. To accent it all, the iceberg impacted
by the leviathan was reported as being a rare black berg looming
high over the vessel, as if a giant evil predator. More than
anything though, the Titanic story represents the struggle between
man's inner and outer self, a struggle which many people are
interested in but prefer to avoid except in books or movies.
This peer-reviewed study represents a culmination of years of
research into the history of the Theosophical Society. In this
unique project which combines biographies with source analyses,
Jeffrey D. Lavoie records a detailed history of the early
Theosophical Society and examines its relationship with the modern
Spiritualist movement between the years 1875-1891. Special
attention has been paid to some of the neglected figures associated
with these organizations including Arthur Lillie- the
Gnostic-occultist and early critic of the Theosophical Society; the
Davenport Brothers- the Spiritualist mediums who developed many of
the standard elements which became associated with modern
Spiritualism; Alfred Wallace- the prominent scientist,
Spiritualist, and supposed member of the Theosophical Society and
many others. This work will appeal to a wide array of readers
including those interested in modern religious movements, Western
Esotericism, South Asian history, and Victorian studies.
In this wonderful selection from the Christ Mind Teachings, Paul
Ferrini shares the message of Jesus as he received it over a
seven-year period. Here at last is a gospel devoted solely to
Jesus' teachings of love, healing and forgiveness. The teacher we
meet here is the compassionate, open-minded teacher we know in our
hearts. He rejects the dogmatic, narrow-minded concepts of
fundamentalist Christianity that reinforce our shame, intolerance
and spiritual pride and instead empowers all of us to awaken the
Christ potential within.
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