Author : Martin Coleman
Publisher : Weiser Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,60 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1578630193
Written for serious practitioners and researchers, this limited edition guideteaches the ancient esoteric art of working with the spirits of the deceased.Readers are cautioned that although complete instructions are given here, thepractice requires an extraordinary amount of responsibility and should not beundertaken lightly.
Author : Jason Miller
Publisher : Weiser Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,58 MB
Release : 2022-05-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1633412350
“Working with spirits can be some of the most dangerous yet some of the most gratifying work a magickal practitioner can engage in. With Jason as your guide in this book, you are in some of the best hands out there when it comes to approaching and working with spirits. This is a book I wish I had fifteen years ago when I began working closely with spirits.” —Mat Auryn, author of Psychic Witch Throughout history, humans have sought power and knowledge from spirits. Learning how to conjure, communicate, and negotiate with these unseen powers is one of the keys to success in magic. Consorting with Spirits presents a detailed explanation of what spirits are, their different classifications, and how they exist in relation to the world we normally perceive. The reader will then learn a system of practices that will cultivate three main skills: The capacity to perceive spirits clearly, the ability to interact with them effectively, and the tools to deepen your relationships. It is this focus on deepening relationships and increasing clarity in communications that has been missing from much of the material about spirits. This book will teach you different ways of interacting with spirits, from offerings and invitations to forceful conjurations. With these tools in hand, you can work with your spirit allies to achieve any goal, from protection, to wealth, to vast knowledge. Consorting with Spirits shares: Proper training necessary for calling and conversing with spirits. How to evaluate the messages you receive. A full view of different modes of contact and what situations each mode lends itself to Why the best sorcery is local. The tools to establish and maintain a long-term relationship with spirits (consorting). The 6 different manifestations of spirits and their corresponding magickal operations, qualities, benefits, and drawbacks. The 4 methods of interacting with spirits: prayer, conjuring, compelling, and evocation.
Author : Raymond Buckland
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 45,53 MB
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0738703990
The author of the bestselling "Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft" writes a handbook 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.
Author : Barbara Weisberg
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 16,85 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0061755168
Barbara Weisberg’s Talking to the Dead blends biography and social history in this revelatory story of the family responsible for the rise of Spiritualism. A fascinating story of spirits and conjurors, skeptics and converts in the second half of nineteenth century America viewed through the lives of Kate and Maggie Fox, the sisters whose purported communication with the dead gave rise to the Spiritualism movement—and whose recanting forty years later is still shrouded in mystery. In March of 1848, Kate and Maggie Fox—sisters aged eleven and fourteen—anxiously reported to a neighbor that they had been hearing strange, unidentified sounds in their house. From a sequence of knocks and rattles translated by the young girls as a "voice from beyond," the Modern Spiritualism movement was born. Talking to the Dead follows the fascinating story of the two girls who were catapulted into an odd limelight after communicating with spirits that March night. Within a few years, tens of thousands of Americans were flocking to séances. An international movement followed. Yet thirty years after those first knocks, the sisters shocked the country by denying they had ever contacted spirits. Shortly after, the sisters once again changed their story and reaffirmed their belief in the spirit world. Weisberg traces not only the lives of the Fox sisters and their family (including their mysterious Svengali–like sister Leah) but also the social, religious, economic and political climates that provided the breeding ground for the movement. While this is a thorough, compelling overview of a potent time in US history, it is also an incredible ghost story.
Author : Aaron Dembski-Bowden
Publisher : White Wolf Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,9 MB
Release : 2007
Category :
ISBN : 9781588464903
This book includes: A comprehensive look at the spirit reflection of the World of Darkness, designed for mortal and supernatural chronicles alike, Extended rules on the interplay between the flesh and the spirit, providing ways to use spirits and the spirit-touched in any chronicle, A variety of mortal perspectives, as well as an extensive selection of antagonists that come from the other side, New spirits, Ridden, rules and setting lore for Vampire: The Requiem[Registered], Werewolf: The Forsaken[Registered], Mage: The Awakening[Registered] and more. Book jacket.
Author : Felicitas D. Goodman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 39,22 MB
Release : 1990-08-22
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0253014646
“Dr. Goodman has pioneered in the study of bodily postures and altered states of consciousness.” —Stanley Krippner, professor of personal mythology and parapsychology “And suddenly the understanding of my own vision washed over me like a mighty wave . . . For life or for death, I was committed to that mighty realm of which I was shown a brief reminder, the world where all was forever motion and emergence, that realm where the spirits ride the wind.” —from the Prologue Anthropologist and spiritual explorer Felicitas Goodman reexamines our notions of the nature of reality by studying the ritual postures of native art assumed by her subjects during trance states. For readers desiring to discover this world of ancient myths, she has included a practical guide on how to achieve such ecstatic experiences. “The book is clearly written for the general reader and includes many descriptions of trance experiences. It may serve as a good introduction to the nature and appeal of the shamanic revival in modern Western cultures.” —Theological Book Review “A case study in experiential anthropology that offers a unique mix of autobiography, mythology, experiential research, and archaeological data to support a challenging thesis—that certain body postures may help induce specific trance states.” —Shaman’s Drum “This is a spellbinding and exceptionally readable book by an extraordinary woman.” —Yoga Journal
Author : Rita S. Berkowitz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,67 MB
Release : 2002-08-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780028643502
You’re no idiot, of course. You know life is a journey and that physical birth and death are its points of transition. Many people, across cultures and faiths, believe the spirit lives on—and have experienced contact with the spirits of loved ones who have passed to the higher side. This contact is joyous, comforting, and healing—but you wonder if it’s really real and whether you can share in it, too. Don’t give up the spirit! The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Communicating with Spirits will show you exactly how to uncover your own mediumistic capabilities and connect with those no longer on the earth plane. In this Complete Idiot’s Guide®, you get: --Tips on how to connect with your personal divine energy through prayer, meditation, and dreams. --Information on the birth of the human soul—as perceived through theological, metaphysical, and spiritual viewpoints. --Exercises to help you develop your mediumistic abilities. --Tangible evidence of the continuity of life as presented through the experiences and spirit drawings of medium Rita S. Berkowitz.
Author : Raymond Buckland
Publisher : Llewellyn Publications
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 22,46 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780875420615
Does consciousness survive the death of the physical body? Are there are a wide variety of entities on the spiritual planes? Find out for yourself by learning how to contact and communicate with spirits using the techniques you will find in Raymond Buckland's Doors to Other Worlds. You'll learn numerous methods of communicating with spirits, including spirit guides and guardian angels. You will learn how to develop your own psychic abilities and even how to become a medium yourself. You will learn the secrets of scrying, clairvoyance, table tipping, using a Ouija board, and automatic writing. Read about the history and development of mediumship, Spiritualism, and channeling. You'll find out what they are, how they are related, how they are similar, and how they are different. Discover the secrets of spirit photography, the practice of taking pictures of non-physical entities. Find out about the best type of film to use, how to set up the camera, and how to experiment with this system. You will even learn how to take spirit photographs without using a camera! One of the most valuable things you can learn is how to heal yourself and others. Ray Buckland explains how diseases begin in the spiritual, or astral, body. Discover how the techniques you have learned in this book can help you to heal others and yourself. This can come from energy work performed on the astral plane or, like the famous medium Edgar Cayce, receiving instructions from the spirit plane for specific cures and treatments. This is a book that has it all. Now is the time to start on your development for tomorrow, and it begins with Doors to Other Worlds. Does consciousness survive the death of the physical body? Are there are a wide variety of entities on the spiritual planes? Find out for yourself by learning how to contact and communicate with spirits using the techniques you will find in Raymond Buckland's Doors to Other Worlds. You'll learn numerous methods of communicating with spirits, including spirit guides and guardian angels. You will learn how to develop your own psychic abilities and even how to become a medium yourself. You will learn the secrets of scrying, clairvoyance, table tipping, using a Ouija board, and automatic writing. Read about the history and development of mediumship, Spiritualism, and channeling. You'll find out what they are, how they are related, how they are similar, and how they are different. Discover the secrets of spirit photography, the practice of taking pictures of non-physical entities. Find out about the best type of film to use, how to set up the camera, and how to experiment with this system. You will even learn how to take spirit photographs without using a camera! One of the most valuable things you can learn is how to heal yourself and others. Ray Buckland explains how diseases begin in the spiritual, or astral, body. Discover how the techniques you have learned in this book can help you to heal others and yourself. This can come from energy work performed on the astral plane or, like the famous medium Edgar Cayce, receiving instructions from the spirit plane for specific cures and treatments. This is a book that has it all. Now is the time to start on your development for tomorrow, and it begins with Doors to Other Worlds.
Author : Éva Pócs
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 21,57 MB
Release : 2005-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 6155053561
Focuses on the problem of communication with the other world: the phenomenon of spirit possession and its changing historical interpretations, the imaginary schemes elaborated for giving accounts of the journeys to the other world, for communicating with the dead, and finally the historical archetypes of this kind of religious manifestation—trance prophecy, divination, and shamanism.Recognized historians and ethnologists analyze the relationship, coexistence and conflicts of popular belief systems, Judeo-Christian mythology and demonology in medieval and modern Europe. The essays address links between rites and beliefs, folklore and literature; the legacy of various pre-Christian mythologies; the syncretic forms of ancient, medieval and modern belief- and rite-systems; "pure" examples from religious-ethnological research outside Europe to elucidate European problems.
Author : Maureen Hancock
Publisher : Health Communications, Inc.
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 25,51 MB
Release : 2011-05-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 075731564X
At just five years old, Maureen Hancock discovered her ability to communicate with the dead. Descended from a long line of legendary Irish mystics, she was no stranger to the spiritual realm, but for fear of being misunderstood by her friends and family she kept the otherworldly messages to herself, eventually suppressing them completely. Maureen wouldn't hear the spirits again until she was in a near-fatal car crash. Soon after, she had hundreds of voices in her head, many of which helped her crack cases and expose fraud in her role as a litigation paralegal at a large Boston law firm. Then, when tragedy struck on 9/11, Maureen was bombarded with messages from the spirit world. As each one made contact with her, she finally came to terms with her calling: to communicate with the deceased, assist the dying, search for missing children, and teach the living about life after death, all the while raising her children in her suburban home. Maureen Hancock is literally is the Medium Next Door, and in this book and through her stories of her encounters with the otherworld as well as guided exercises at the conclusion of each chapter, she offers the same comfort and wisdom she shares in her healing encounters and lectures about what is out there waiting for all who are open to its mysteries. . . .
