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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Alternative belief systems > Contemporary non-Christian & para-Christian cults & sects > Spiritualism
This collection of transcribed communications through 'mind
transference' from spirit guides, teachers and Beings of Light
offers profound guidance and sometimes warnings to the whole of
humankind. Specifically, the authors connection with these beings
came as a complete surprise while meditating when one of these
beings appeared to him. Since then they have been constant
companions bringing him their profound messages. Their appearance
is tall and slim, dressed in a long white coat with a high collar,
as the name suggests they radiate light, you might know them as
Angels or beings from higher dimensions or other worlds.
Buckland's Book of Spirit Communications is for anyone who
wishes to communicate with spirits, as well as for the less
adventurous who simply want to satisfy their curiosity about the
subject. Explore the nature of the physical body and learn how to
prepare yourself to become a medium. Experience for yourself the
trance state, clairvoyance, psychometry, table tipping, levitation,
talking boards, automatic writing, spiritual photography, spiritual
healing, distant healing, channeling, and development circles. Also
learn how to avoid spiritual fraud. This revised and expanded
edition of Buckland's popular Doors to Other Worlds has over one
hundred new pages, including a completely new chapter on electronic
spirit contact. It features additional photographs and
illustrations, an index, a new preface, and a workbook format with
study questions and answers for each chapter.
Book Four of the Law of One is the last of the books in the Law of
One series. Book Four explores in great detail the archetypical
mind which is the framework provided by our Logos or sun body to
aid each of us in the evolution of mind, body, and spirit. Tarot,
astrology, and ritual magic are three paths offering the study of
the archetypical mind, and in Book Four a study of that rich
resource is undertaken using the tarot, also uncovered on the
nature and purpose of the veil that we experience between the
conscious and the unconscious minds and the process of "forgetting"
that occurs during each incarnation in our third-density
experience. In Book Four the path of the adept becomes more clear
as Ra elucidates the adept's use of experience to balance its
energy centres and penetrate the veil of forgetting.
James Van Praagh is a spiritual medium--someone who is able to
bridge the physical and spiritual worlds. Unaware of his spiritual
gifts until he was in his twenties, he slowly came to terms with
his unique abilities. In addition, many of his sessions with
grieving people who came to him looking to contact the spirits of
deceased loved ones are explored. From a devastated mother
recieving a message of hope from her deceased little girl to
communicating with a young man, killed in Vietnam, who doesn't
realize he's dead, the theme of hope and peace in the afterlife is
affirmed. Van Praagh also helps the reader recognize and positively
deal with the pain of grief in a healthy, honest manner. Part
spiritual memoir, part case study, part instrumental guide, Talking
to Heaven will change the way you perceive death...and life.
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.
Open your heart and mind to the wisdom of the animal world.
Animal Speak provides techniques for recognizing and interpreting
the signs and omens of nature. Meet and work with animals as totems
and spirit guides by learning the language of their behaviors
within the physical world. Animal Speak shows you how to: identify,
meet, and attune to your spirit animals; discover the power and
spiritual significance of more than 100 different animals, birds,
insects, and reptiles; call upon the protective powers of your
animal totem; and create and use five magical animal rites,
including shapeshifting and sacred dance. This beloved, bestselling
guide has become a classic reference for anyone wishing to forge a
spiritual connection with the majesty and mystery of the animal
world.
In its day, spiritualism brought hundreds of thousands of Americans
to seance tables and trance lectures. It has alternately been
ridiculed as the apogee of fatuous credulity and hailed as a
feminist movement. Its tricks have been exposed, its charlatans
unmasked, and its heroes' names lost to posterity. In its day,
however, its leaders were household names and politicians worried
about capturing the Spiritualist vote. Cathy Gutierrez places
Spiritualism in the context of the 19th-century American
Renaissance. Although this epithet usually signifies the sudden
blossoming of American letters, Gutierrez points to its original
meaning: a cultural imagination enraptured with the past and the
classics in particular, accompanied by a cultural efflorescence.
Spiritualism, she contends, was the religious articulation of the
American Renaissance, and the ramifications of looking backward for
advice about the present were far-reaching. The Spiritualist
movement, says Gutierrez, was a 'renaissance of the Renaissance, '
a culture in love with history as much as it trumpeted progress and
futurity, and an expression of what constituted religious hope
among burgeoning technology and colonialism. Rejecting Christian
ideas about salvation, Spiritualists embraced Platonic and
Neoplatonic ideas. Humans were shot through with the divine, rather
than seen as helpless and inexorably corrupt sinners in the hands
of a transcendent, angry God. Gutierrez's study of this fascinating
and important movement is organized thematically. She analyzes
Spiritualist conceptions of memory, marriage, medicine, and minds,
explores such phenomena as machines for contacting the dead,
spirit-photography, the idea of eternal spiritual affinity (which
implied the necessity for marriage reform), the connection between
health and spirituality, and mesmerism."
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