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February 26, 2010
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 Spirit CommunicationBy Susan SanderfordSusan's mediumship gift reunites those on earth with those in spirit for the purpose of healing hurts, bringing unfinished business to a close, or relaying guidance from masters, guides and loved ones who continue to be a part of your life. Jesus and UFOs:Riders of the New Wave of ImaginationA book Essay by Henry ReedWhy are so many people claiming to see or have messages from UFOs, angels, aliens, and spirits? Are these "invaders" felt to be good, or bad? Are they proof of end-of century hysteria or expanding consciousness? Three books explore the topic from refreshingly different viewpoints. These are: G. Scott Sparrow's I Am With You Always: True Stories of Encounters With Jesus (Bantam; formerly titled "Witness to His Return" by A.R.E. Press); Keith Thompson's Angels and Aliens: UFOs and the Mythic Imagination (Addison-Wesley); and Bear & Company authors David Spangler and Wm. Irvin Thompson's Reimagining the World: A Critique of the New Age, Science, and Popular Culture. Image of an OracleBy Ira ProgoffA book digest by Myron GanttWhen Edgar Cayce, in a psychic reading, told spiritualist Eileen Garrett to conduct her own research on her spirit guides, she hired Jungian analyst Ira Progoff to investigate. Channeling Your Higher SelfBy Henry ReedBook Summary by Rachel CreagerEdgar Cayce popularized the word, "channel," to mean bringing forth, and had a unique "mega-vision" of the many ways in which we can bring forth blessings from Spirit. Spiritualists View the Spirit WorldBy Barbara StarrMaster's Thesis compiles descriptions of the afterlife provided by Spiritualists' communications with spirits. Have a Creative Relationship with Spirit GuidesBy PaTrisha RobinSongMy angels and spirit guides were many and nameless. Then someone suggested to me, "why don't you name your angels and spirit guides by what they do and give them a face to make them more personal." What a novel idea! It became fun. Induced After Death Communication: A New Therapy for Healing Grief and TraumaA Book Excerpted By Allan L. Botkin, Psy.D. & R. Craig Hogan, Ph.D.Becky excitedly described to me what she experienced. "I saw my mother," she said, a broad smile across her tear-stained face. "I told her, ‘I love you,’ and she said, ‘I love you too.’ Then she hugged me. I could actually feel her arms around me." But at the time of this experience, Becky’s mother had been dead for five years. Beyond Knowing: Mysteries and Messages of Death and Life from a Forensic PathologistBy Janis Amatuzio, M.D.Books Summary by John HansonThe work is about half what you know and half what you feel. That’s why you have to keep an open mind. That’s when you notice your gut feeling. It is this kind of knowing that most of us have forgotten. For Janis Amatuzio, it is a way to understand a different world. By Brad Tesh God, the Angels and your Spirit Guides are always willing to help you with an all loving embrace, all one must do is ask for help and be open to receiving it and so it is. By opening our spiritual intuition to these loving beings, we are able to find peace, healing, and experience blessings of all kinds. What Is the Occult? (And What Is It Doing In America?) An excerpt from Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped our Nation, by Mitch Horowitz News drifted back to the Old World: A land existed where mystical thinkers and mystery religions, remnants of esoteric movements that had thrived during the Renaissance and were later harassed, could find safe harbor. And so began a revolution in religious life that was eventually felt around the earth. America hosted a remarkable assortment of breakaway faiths, from Mormonism to Seventh-Day Adventism to Christian Science. But one movement that grew within its borders came to wield radical influence over nineteenth and twentieth-century spirituality. It encompassed a wide array of mystical philosophies and mythical lore, particularly the belief in an "unseen world" whose forces act upon us and through us. It is called the occult.
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