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Books > Health, Home & Family > Mind, body & spirit > The Occult
My journey began when I was a child and I was repeatedly attacked
by a demon. As a young adult I wanted to learn more about my
supernatural experiences. I began journaling my dreams and I saw a
pattern emerge. What I was dreaming about days, weeks, or years
before was happening in my waking life. My encounter with my twin
soul at the age of twenty-four would forever change me. When my
eyes met his eyes I felt Eternity open up. I wanted to know what
was this consciousness behind this awareness. I began my esoteric
studies and found in religious text answers to what I have
experienced throughout my life. I had my kundalini awakening at the
age of thirty-two. This was due to a psychological crisis when my
marriage was falling apart. I also contribute my yearning for God
and years of yoga to my awakening. I began blogging three years
after my awakening. After twenty years of journaling my dreams,
insights, and encounters with other beings; I finally saw the
meaning they had for me. I finally had gained the confidence to
publicly share my journals. Now I am thirty-eight and have strung
together all of my life experiences and found they do serve a
higher purpose. God's abode is within every human heart. All one
needs to do is yearn for God. God does speak through dreams. God
also does reveal Himself to the devote Seeker. One must die to ego
for God to reveal His secret.
A companion to his first book, The Spirits' Guide, The Book on
Mediums explains how to apply Allan Kardec's principles of his
practical science of spiritism in order to become a medium. His aim
is to teach interested readers, those who believe in the existence
of the spirit world, and people with a strong desire to communicate
with the dead how to cultivate their sensitivity to the paranormal.
It is a serious undertaking, and Kardec warns his reader to
approach the subject with a scholarly mind and pure intentions. For
those who are willing, there is a whole new world just waiting to
be experienced. French scholar HIPPOLYTE LEON DENIZARD RIVAIL
(1804-1869), aka Allan Kardec, was a longtime teacher of
mathematics, astronomy, and other scientific disciplines before
turning to the paranormal. He founded the Parisian Society of
Psychologic Studies, and founded and edited the monthly magazine La
Revue Spirite, Journal of Psychologic Studies. He is also the
author of The Gospel as Explained by Spirits (1864).
Journalist Ken Anderson analyzes claims made by historian Trevor
Ravenscroft and others that the Holy Lance, which is said to have
pierced the side of Jesus Christ, took center stage in Hitler's
life and was the focal point of Hitler's ambitions to conquer the
world. In addition to pointing out the flaws in this theory,
Anderson questions the veracity of the biblical story of the lance.
Was there some meaning behind the flight of Hitler deputy Rudolf
Hess to Britain, Hitler's supposed extrasensory perception, his
choice of the swastika as the Nazi symbol, the "superman" who
haunted the Fuhrer, the use of Nostradamus in propaganda, the way
Americans were taken in by the astrological propaganda war, and
strange similarities between Hitler and Charlie Chaplin? Anderson
offers rational explanations for these alleged strange events and
powers, demonstrating that they cannot be attributed to Hitler.
Along the coast of Fife, in villages like Culross and Pittenweem,
history records that some women were executed as witches.
Nevertheless, the reality of what happened the night that Janet
Cornfoot was lynched at Pittenweem is hard to grasp as one sits by
the harbour watching the fishing boats unload their catch and the
pleasure boats rising with the tide. How could people do this to an
old woman? Why was no-one ever brought to justice? And why would
anyone defend such a lynching? The task of the historian is to try
to make events in the past come alive and seem less strange. The
details of the witch-hunt are fascinating. Some of the anecdotes
are strange. The modern reader finds it hard to imagine illness
being blamed on the malevolence of a beggar woman denied charity,
or the economic failure of a sea voyage being attributed to the
village hag, not bad weather. Witch-hunting was related to ideas,
values, attitudes and political events. It was a complicated
process, involving religious and civil authorities, village
tensions and the fears of the elite. The witch-hunt in Scotland
also took place at a time when one of the main agendas was the
creation of a righteous or godly society. As a result, religious
authorities had control over aspects of people's lives which seem
as strange to us today as beliefs about magic or witchcraft. It was
not accidental that the witch-hunt in Scotland, and specifically in
Fife, should have happened at this time. This book tells the story
of what occurred over a period of a century and a half, and offers
some explanation as to why it occurred.
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