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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Alternative belief systems > Contemporary non-Christian & para-Christian cults & sects > Spiritualism
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An absorbing account of an anthropologist's fieldwork and
explorations into alternative religions in Brazil, "Samba in the
Night" invites the reader into the mysterious world of spirit
mediums, poltergeists, psychic surgery, exorcism and spiritual
healing. The author focuses on spiritism, a vital religious
movement with millions of followers. He provides descriptions of
rituals and at the same time weaves in a detective story about the
complex relations between Spiritist rituals and the rest of their
world. Through a patchwork of anecdotes about spirit mediums,
doctors, engineers, lawmakers, Jesuits, and past-life therapists,
the book offers an introduction to Brazilian religion and society
as well as to the art of anthropological fieldwork.
For novice astrology students as well as experienced astrologers
seeking a holistic look at the foundations of astrology, this
accessible and fascinating study is a must. Readers will be pleased
to discover that Astrology and the Evolution of
Consciousness-Volume 1 by Maurice Fernandez is full of
down-to-earth examples as well as carefully considered explanations
of the profound spiritual elements behind various astrological
concepts. Mapping the evolution of consciousness and the levels of
spiritual development in tandem with fundamental astrology concepts
will make this book a long-lasting reference for many readers.
Maurice Fernandez has written this comprehensive book destined to
become a classic on the basic building blocks of astrology. In
Astrology and the Evolution of Consciousness-Volume 1, he shares
his years of extensive experience and wisdom to do what he does
best: guide us through new depth with sheer clarity. Destined to
become a cornerstone in the literature of Evolutionary Astrology,
Maurices book is a true manual. Students and practitioners will
turn to it for years to come, mining its pages for their treasures
of insight into the evolutionary possibilities inherent in specific
astrological configurations. Steven Forrest, author of The Inner
Sky and Yesterday's Sky
The legendary bestselling author and renowned psychiatrist M. Scott
Peck, whose books have sold over 14 million copies, reveals the
amazing true story of his work as an exorcist -- kept secret for
more than twenty-five years -- in two profoundly human stories of
satanic possession. In the tradition of his million-copy bestseller
People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil, Scott Peck's
new book offers the first complete account of exorcism and
possession by a modern psychiatrist in this extraordinary personal
narrative of his efforts to heal patients suffering from demonic
and satanic possession. For the first time, Dr. Peck discusses his
experience in conducting exorcisms, sharing the spellbinding
details of his two major cases: one a moving testament to his
healing abilities, and the other a perilous and ultimately
unsuccessful struggle against darkness and evil.
Twenty-seven-year-old Jersey was of average intelligence; a caring
and devoted wife and mother to her husband and two young daughters,
she had no history of mental illness. Beccah, in her mid-forties
and with a superior intellect, had suffered from profound
depression throughout her life, choosing to remain in an abusive
relationship with her husband, one dominated by distrust and greed.
Until the day Dr. Peck first met the young woman called Jersey, he
did not believe in the devil. In fact, as a mature, highly
experienced psychiatrist, he expected that this case would resolve
his ongoing effort to prove to himself, as scientifically as
possible, that there were absolutely no grounds for such beliefs.
Yet what he discovered could not be explained away simply as
madness or by any standard clinical diagnosis. Through a series of
unanticipated events, Dr. Peck found himself thrust into the role
of exorcist, and his desire to treat and help Jersey led him down a
path of blurred boundaries between science and religion. Once
there, he came face-to-face with deeply entrenched evil and
ultimately witnessed the overwhelming healing power of love. In
Glimpses of the Devil, Dr. Peck's celebrated gift for integrating
psychiatry and religion is demonstrated yet again as he recounts
his journey from skepticism to eventual acknowledgment of the
reality of an evil spirit, even at the risk of being shunned by the
medical establishment. In the process, he also finds himself
compelled to confront the larger paradox of free will, of a
commitment to goodness versus enslavement to the forms of evil, and
the monumental clash of forces that endangers both sanity and the
soul. Glimpses of the Devil is unquestionably among Scott Peck's
most powerful, scrupulously written, and important books in many
years. At once deeply sensitive and intensely chilling, it takes a
clear-eyed look at one of the most mysterious and misunderstood
areas of human experience.
In a treeless land far north of the Arctic Circle, the I\u00f1upiat
live immensely practical lives, yet they have a profound belief in
the spirit world. For them, everything-whether living being or
inanimate object-has a spirit. This outlook reflects their sense of
the connectedness of all life. The Hands Feel It is the account of
one person's experience among the I\u00f1upiat. Anthropologist
Edith Turner records occurrences of healing, spirit manifestation,
and premonition in her narrative of a year in the life of an Eskimo
community. Her diary captures for the reader sea ice, tundra,
gravel beaches, and a determined and cheerful population. Sights,
sounds, and even smells that Turner encounters provide context for
a study in tune with the spiritual. Accounts that ethnographers
have often termed "myth" and "legend" Turner sees from a different
point of view-not as mere stories but as real events the
I\u00f1upiat sincerely report to her. The value of Turner's work
originates in her own connection to spirituality and in the growing
receptiveness of the I\u00f1upiat to her.
One of the greatest proponents of spiritualism was Arthur Conan
Doyle, best known as the creator of Sherlock Holms. Spiritualists
believe in the continuation of life after death and that we can
communicate with those on the other side in ways that can be
helpful. In the early 1900's there was a large Spiritualist
movement taking place in the world and Doyle chose to document its
entire history in this two volume set. Chapters include The Story
of Swedenborg, Edward Irving: The Shakers, The Career of the Fox
Sisters, First Developments in America, The Dawn in England, The
Career of D. D. Home, The Davenport Brothers, The Researches of Sir
William Crookes, Collective Investigations of Spiritualism, and
much more. To this day the movement has continued to grow, with
Spiritualist churches existing around the world. Many people
believe in their principles or have experienced them first-hand,
making this work important to those who wish to investigate
further.
While modernism's engagement with the occult has been approached by
critics as the result of a loss of faith in representation, an
attempt to draw on science as the primary discourse of modernity,
or as an attempt to draw on a hidden history of ideas, Leigh Wilson
argues that these discourses have at their heart a magical practice
which remakes the relationship between world and representation. As
Wilson demonstrates, the courses of the occult are based on a
magical mimesis which transforms the nature of the copy, from inert
to vital, from dead to alive, from static to animated, from
powerless to powerful. Wilson explores the aesthetic and political
implications of this relationship in the work of those writers,
artists and filmmakers who were most self-consciously experimental,
including James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Dziga Vertov and Sergei M.
Eisenstein.
In this book the author brings to light man's deep inner need for
spiritual wisdom in life and helps the reader develop a new sense
of reality that is based on love, power and compassion. He
describes our relationship with the natural world in detail and
discusses how we can harness its tremendous powers for our personal
and mankind's benefit. It's Time to Come Alive challenges some of
our most commonly held beliefs and offers a way out of the
emotional restrictions and physical limitations we have created in
our lives. Topics include: What shapes our Destiny; using the power
of intention; secrets of defying the aging process; doubting - the
cause of failure; opening the heart; material wealth and spiritual
wealth; fatigue - the major cause of stress; methods of emotional
transformation; techniques of primordial healing; how to increase
health of the five senses; developing spiritual wisdom; the major
causes of today's earth changes; entry into the new world; twelve
gateways to heaven on earth; and many more. Andreas Moritz is a
Medical Intuitive and practitioner of Ayurveda, Iridology, Shiatsu
and Vibrational Medicine. Author of The Amazing Liver &
Gallbladder Flush, Timeless Secrets of Health and Rejuvenation, and
Time to Wake Up. Founder of the innovative healing systems,
Ener-Chi Art and Sacred Santmony - Divine Chanting for Every
Occasion.
If you are seeking union with your Sacred Self, this book is the
Lamplight that will wipe the cobwebs of time from your mind and the
darkness of fear from your vision. Passion and sincerity are key to
initiating anything in life. When you begin to do what you love
continuously, a conscious connection to the Soul happens. In the
development and expansion of your life, you will begin to feel a
Presence. What is this Presence? The Divine, or is it Love of Self?
So now the question becomes, what is this Love? Is it God? It is
challenging to put this level of Consciousness into words. Bliss,
joy and effortlessness abound while the worries of life no longer
exist. In such unity, the universe awaits your beckoning call with
fruits you only dreamed could fall from the tree of life. This
place, this space, is the bridge to the Soul and your return to the
Garden of Eternal Playfulness. Welcome home.
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.
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.
In this unique and important book, now celebrating its 20th
anniversary, one of the world's great spiritual leaders offers his
practical wisdom and advice on how we can overcome everyday human
problems and achieve lasting happiness. The Art of Happiness is a
highly accessible guide for a western audience, combining the Dalai
Lama's eastern spiritual tradition with Dr Howard C. Cutler's
western perspective. Covering all key areas of human experience,
they apply the principles of Tibetan Buddhism to everyday problems
and reveal how one can find balance and complete spiritual and
mental freedom. For the many who wish to understand more about the
Dalai Lama's approach to living, there has never been a book which
brings his beliefs so vividly into the real world.
A complete beginner's guide to understanding and harnessing the
mysterious forces of nature.
- Provides tools for self-initiation into the ancient and secret
traditions of ceremonial magic.
- Explains various divination systems and how to perform ancient
rituals that open the doorway to secret and arcane knowledge.
True magic can be defined as the art and science of using
little-known or forgotten natural forces in order to achieve
changes in consciousness and the physical environment. It concerns
a wide body of doctrines and techniques, including the conjuring of
spirits and non-human entities; the manufacture and consecration of
wands, swords, talismans, and other tools of the magus; ritual
divination; and the exploration of universes other than that with
which we are familiar. The masters who taught others these ancient
arts are gone, but "Techniques of High Magic" provides the
practical and lucid instruction necessary for self-initiation into
these secret traditions.
Emphasizing the ordered nature of the universe and the power of
will directed by imagination, Francis King and Stephen Skinner
introduce the reader to magical practices, rituals, and instruments
that have been used for centuries. They explain systems of
divination such as the I Ching, the Tarot, and geomancy, as well as
techniques of astral projection and elementary alchemy. Their
disciplined approach to magical practice includes easy formulas and
diagrams that will help the initiate navigate an ancient and potent
universe of gods, angels, and spirits--the world of High Magic.
Is there proof that "near death" and other spiritual experiences can cure afflictions of the body, mind, and spirit? Are there simple ways to tap into a "universal power source" that spiritual masters call enlightenment? Is there scientific evidence of life after death that is being overlooked by skeptics? Is there scientific proof of a spot in our brains that communicates with God and the universe? Pediatrician Melvin Morse believes the answer to all these questions is yes. Shedding new light on the links between science and mysticism, Where God Lives not only reveals the area of the brain that is our biological link to the universe, but also shows us the secret of tapping into the universal energy to achieve healing, personal peace, and transcendence. Filled with moving case histories, Where God Lives applies the rigor of science to the study of the spiritual to prove once and for all the existence of life after death.
Teresa Moorehouse's "narrative sculptures" tell deep, often
timeless stories in cold cast bronze, with patinas of copper,
silver, or gold. Some draw on traditional myths or legends. Others
discover new voices for contemporary experience of spiritual
mysteries. Her images weave a language of symbols that surpasses
logic and speaks directly to intuition and spirit. Soul Stories
elegantly displays thirty-nine of the artist's favourite works in
cold cast bronze. Her own brief narratives companion the
photographs, to lead us by the hand into each sculpture's magical
world.
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