ESP Books

I bought this book mainly out of curiosity to see just how telepathy was considered almost a hundred years ago and found it surprisingly informative. A good read for anyone with interests in the paranormal and higher sensory perceptions.

Just search this title on the internet and you can find this book as a free, legal download. You do not need to buy it unless you want a paper copy.

I am a Narcolepsy Patient (Sleep Disorder). This effects my ability not only to stay awake but to concentrate and learn, my memory and language skills are greatly effected as well. This book enabled me to list my positive and negative skills and use both to improve my life. Finding keys to opening different parts of my mind at different times of the day, using common items such as sound, color, texture to stimulate my brain functions. PragMagic is well written, and scientifically proven facts and illustrations are given as help guides. Personal stories and reference to Professionals in all areas make this book a keepsake. I am sure you will enjoy just briefly reading some of the poems and articles that have been included also.

Alright, there are MILLIONS of self-help style books out there, but this one strikes me as being a little different. Rather than push one particular theory or deal with one particular aspect of behaviour, it is a collection of theories for a variety of things. A good book to dip into, as, although not a huge book, it is also a lot to take on board all at once. I keep going back to it and discovering something new. You may not end up the perfect person after reading this, but it is certainly thought-provoking, and you'll look at people around you in a new light.

I really loved Psagent and recommend it to everyone! This is not you typical and tired old retread of metaphysics and New Age and weird Fortean or anomalous phenomena! Wow is all I can say. It is good as Partain's fantastic first book, Psi in the Sky! This book will tell you things about the Age of Aquarius and old calendars (and Halloween and Friday the 13th) and mysterious telepathic beings in the star system of Sirius than you ever thought possible. There are sections on easy ways to develop your psychic abilities and lots of insights into avoiding phonies and sociopathic [con] artists. Partain is funny, witty, very scientific and pulls no punches against the "bad guys" while delivering his own documented cases. There is a great bibliography, too! Please, if you buy no other book this year, buy Psagent. What a Psagent is the author explains in his very insightful Introduction.

I love Psi in the Sky. It is not like any UFO book I have ever read. It really grabs you with its clever title and beautiful cover. It is one of those books you cannot put down. I have to give it five stars! The first part explains how psychic abilities (what the author calls psi) work and then ties
it into the mystery of UFOs in the second part. The author spent years researching this book and it is not some dumb re-hash of Communion-like books that flooded the market for so long. Everyone who wants real answers to an ages-old mystery should buy this book!

I have owned this book for several years and still find it to be the most complete and logically sound book on spiritual growth I have ever read. This is a must-read for anybody interested in expanding their awareness and enhancing their life.

We use this book in our Psychic Development Classes. We have found that her no-nonsense approach very easy to teach and to understand. Her background is varied, and she references Biblical texts and teachings along with very specific how-to exercises. We have been studying Metaphysics and Healing for a number of years and we find this book to be one of the best for it's ease of reading and use. Interested in Psychic Development / Healing / Readings? Please visit our site at http://ally.ios.com/~wtwsha/index.html

As a psychotherapist and alternative care provider, I have always known that there was something more - a knowing within myself that I was not sure how to access. Despite its off-putting (at least for me) title, I picked up this book and was drawn in immediately. It is not only a step-by-step guide to intuition - but also an incredibly well written book. The author writes with passion and clarity. It is good to read a book of this nature that doesn't include a back-page of all the other tapes and workbooks you will need to truly "get it". Instead, Ms. Chestney reminds us that the gift of intuition is one we already have and she shows us how to use it. I highly suggest that anyone who knows "it" is within them, but is scared away by all the hoo-doo babble , pick up this book. You won't need another.

The Psychic Workshop is an inspirational and educational glimpse into the process of inner guidance, and is based on the principal that all people have an innate divine connection that is accessed through intuitive awareness and strengthened by a trueness to one's self.

This is a one-of-a-kind book -- in that material is presented in a workshop format that enables readers to work with and validate their own inner guidance as they explore the theories and practices surrounding the intuitive process.

This book's perspective is god-driven, human-condition driven, and emphasizes a connectedness to self and community - a connection that enables us to better reach in and to reach out, and to begin to heal ourselves and the world by using the gifts we have forgotten - the simple god-given gifts of stopping to 'know' and 'listen.'

A MUST-READ for anyone on the path to self discovery......

_Psychology and the Occult_ from the Collected Works of Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung, published as part of the Bollingen Series of Princeton University Press, and translated by R. F. C. Hull, contains several important essays and lectures by Jung on the occult and parapsychology. Carl Jung, who was to come under the influence of Freud, maintained an interest in the occult throughout his life, beginning in his young adulthood. Jung, who wrote in a letter to Freud that he "dabbled in spookery", set out on a lifelong course to explain the occult and the "spirit world" in terms of the unconscious. While Jung may have believed in the reality of spirits, his writings take a more agnostic scientific/rationalist position as to their reality, while at the same time attempting to explain occult and spiritualistic phenomena in terms of the unconscious. Jung is perhaps most famous for his notion of the collective unconscious, the source of all inherited ancestral memories, and even within his dissertation for his medical doctorate the idea of the collective unconscious may be present. Indeed, Jung writes, "I waded through the occult literature so far as it pertained to this subject [the visions of Miss S. W.], and discovered a wealth of parallels with our gnostic system, dating from different centuries, but scattered about in all kinds of works, most of them quite inaccessible to the patient." Alternatively, at least initially Jung was to explain many of the statements of mediums in terms of hysteria and cryptomnesia (the coming into consciousness of unrecognized memory images). To understand Jung's fascination with the occult and spiritualism, one really must understand the sort of revival occultism and mysticism was undergoing at the time in continental Europe and America. The Romantic movement was underway and the writings of the Swedish seer, Swedenborg, were popular. In addition, a reaction was occurring against materialism, and this reaction provoked the sort of romanticism found behind spiritualism. Scientific investigations of occult phenomena were also sought as part of the Society for Psychical Research and research into the phenomena of parapsychology were being conducted at Duke University. In addition, new discoveries in theoretical physics regarding the nature of space and time, the dimensionality of the universe, and quantum phenomena were challenging preconceived notions. It is among this milieu that Carl Jung's ideas on the occult were to arise and have their greatest impact.

The following items appear reprinted in this book:

"Foreword to Jung: "Phenomens Occultes"" (1939) - A brief foreword relating Jung's theories on the occult and immortality.

"On the Psychology and Pathology of So-Called Occult Phenomena" (1902) -This is Jung's dissertation for his medical doctorate written while he was at the Burgholzli. In this dissertation, Jung explains the role of hysteria and epilepsy (very similar) in the production of occult phenomena. He begins by noting several instances of hysteria and epilepsy in women. Then, he turns to the case of a girl, Miss S. W., who served as a medium (her personality being taken over by that of her grandfather and a spirit named Ivenes). This girl presented an elaborate metaphysical system, which Jung copied down. Jung argues that this girl was a hysteric and explains some of the phenomena surrounding this girl. He notes the reality of multiple personalities, somnambulistic states, and emphasizes hypnosis as a means to understanding altered states of consciousness. In particular, he notes the fact that small tremors are not uncommon in the hands and that these tremors often can produce writing and drawings which relate to what is going on in the mind. Jung also explains much of what this girl says as a product of cryptomnesia. Jung notes the similarity of her case to the case of the Seeress of Prevorst (made famous by Justinus Kerner). Jung also notes how much of what she said appears to be unconsciously plagiarized (cryptomnesia) from the book _From India to the Planet Mars_ of Flournoy. To illustrate how this occurs Jung produces two pieces of writing, one from Nietzsche's _Thus Spoke Zarathustra_ and the second from Kerner's _Clairvoyant of Prevorst_ and shows the great similarity. He contends this is an instance of cryptomnesia. Jung ends by noting how this girl's worldview shares much similarity with that found in gnostic and occult literature, foreshadowing the collective unconscious.

"On Spiritualistic Phenomena" (1905) - This is a lecture given by Jung. Jung notes the history of spiritualism which grew as an opposition movement to materialism. Jung explains the role of the Fox sisters, romantic poets, Swedenborg, Kant, Johann Josef von Gorres, Katherina Emmerich, and Mesmer within this movement. Jung quotes extensively from Kant's book on Swedenborg, _Dreams of a Spirit-Seer_ as well as from a writing by Wiliam Crookes.

"The Psychological Foundations of Belief in Spirits" (1920) - Jung explains belief in spirits among both primitives and moderns such as Crookes, Myers, Wallace, and Zollner. Jung emphasizes the role of the archetypes of the collective unconscious.

"The Soul and Death" (1934) - Jung explains the soul, death, and the fear of death. Jung notes the role of religion and explains that it is the rationalist position which is neurotic towards death. That is, the rationalist seeks to deny death by claiming it is simply an end and not something more.

"Psychology and Spiritualism" (1948) - This is Jung's foreword to a book by Stewart Edward White in which he notes the role of "Invisibles", as well as the role of modern physics in providing a possible explanation for parapsychological phenomena.

"Foreword to Moser: "Spuk: Irrglaube Oder Wahrglaube"" (1950) - Jung's foreword to a book by Fanny Moser in which he attempts to explain a haunting that he experienced in terms of unconscious manifestation.

"Foreword to Jaffe: "Apparitions and Precognition"" (1958) - Jung's foreword to a book by Aniela Jaffe about fantastic tales of superstition, mentioning the stories of E. T. A. Hoffmann.

"The Future of Parapsychology" (1963) - Jung's answers to a questionnaire regarding the future of parapsychology to be printed in a journal. This is particularly interesting because it notes Jung's thoughts on the possibility of scientific investigation of the occult.

This book provides a fascinating look into the mind of Carl Jung and his thinking regarding the occult. It is sure to intrigue those who hope for a life beyond death and particularly those who believe that psychology has something to say about occult phenomena. For those who believe in the reality of the supernatural, this book is certain to provide some solace.

The occult phenomenon that Jung considers is mostly the spiritualism and seances that were popular at the turn of the 20th century. Jung describes how some mediums were found to be unconsciously moving objects via automatic movements, as in table turning, "if a fairly heavy object is moving, the muscular tension is immediately apparent".

I've been very impressed by how relevant Jung's observations about the psyche are to my inner life. Unfortunately Jung has fallen out of favor and the current attitude towards the unconscious is to suppress it and fear it. Although I read a lot of books, I have encountered few references to supernatural reverie, entrancing dreams, or other indications of a profound connection to the life of the psyche. You have to read 19th century Romantic poets to find the right sensibilities.

There were two passages in this book that I found noteworthy; "When a complex of the collective unconscious becomes associated with the ego it is felt as strange, uncanny, and at the same time fascinating. At all events the conscious mind falls under its spell." This is a good description of a supernatural reverie when the soul seems to fall under the spell of some eerie recollection or a fascinating, poetic vision. Another accurate description is the following passage, "An integral component of any nocturnal, numinous experience is the diming of consciousness, the feeling that one is in the grip of something greater than oneself, a most singular feeling which one willy-nilly hoards up as a secret treasure. This is the purpose of the experiece - to make us feel the overpowering presence of a mystery." The most interesting point made here is that a numinous experience is treasured, profoundly mysterious, and kept to oneself. Jung genuinely valued the unconscious.

I am very happy with my purchase. The price was a little high but the product I received was exactly as described and in excellent condition. I will definitely order from this vendor in the future!....Mark, from Utah/Arizona

Since declassification in 1995 of the government-sponsored remote viewing project, the public has been exposed to increasing amounts of information on the subject. Much of this information has been useful while some of it seems only to serve the limited agendas of those seeking to mislead the public. In this context, work on the subject should be treated with a healthy dose of discernment. Fortunately, there are a growing number of helpful, informative remote viewing books and this is one of them. Remote Viewing: The Science and Theory of Nonphysical Perception, by Dr. Courtney Brown, is the most definitive textbook on remote viewing yet written. Dr. Brown, one of the early pioneers in applying chaos theory to social science data, covers all facets of the remote viewing process, including both theory and data analysis. The result is a detailed scientific presentation, the result of years of remote viewing work done at the Farsight Institute, a nonprofit research and teaching organization set up by Brown in 1996.

Brown explores how the remote viewing process works, many of the anomalies associated with remote viewing, and how to do statistical analyses of the results. The book is meticulously written and thoroughly presents the various facets of setting up an RV session, how the viewer and monitor execute the session, and eventually interpret the results. Brown investigates the "fuzzy" aspects of remote viewing, how it defies linear, mechanistic reasoning yet nonetheless shows repeatability in different viewers' sessions, both from beginning and more experienced practitioners. The book also contains many examples of experimental designs formulated around remote viewing experiments carried out at the Farsight Institute.

Brown's book is written as a scientific treatise on the subject and should be recognized as one of the first of that genre. The book deserves to be published by a university press so it could be used as classroom primer. As it stands, remote viewing practitioners and scientists alike will find Brown's work both foundational and forward-looking in the many questions it raises about why remote viewing works and the consequences for modern science. Remote viewing is still a mystery to us but its implications are large. Brown goes a long way in this book in making that mystery more accessible to academics and the reading public.

(Dr. Simeon Hein is the author of Opening Minds and the forthcoming Planetary Intelligence.)

I spent Christmas day reading this book, couldn't put it down. Not only that, midway through each chapter, I'd stop and read out-loud to anyone in the room.
No matter what your spiritual belief is, this book is full of fascinating stories and hope.
The author is an enormously well respected surgeon...not someone trying to make a living 'connecting' with dead Grandmas.
I seldom recommend books, and seldom read a book in one day because I can't sit still long enough...
This is one book I'll be gifting to friends and talking about to anyone who will listen.
It's a thought provoking, compelling, must read.

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Book Review: The Scalpel and the Soul (Jeremy P. Tarcher /Penguin Publishers, 2008) by Allan J. Hamilton, M.D., FACS with a forward by Andrew Weil, M.D.

The tag line for the ominously titled book The Scalpel and the Soul is: Encounters with Surgery, the Supernatural, and the Healing Power of Hope.
Author Dr. Allan Hamilton, influenced by his erudite grandfather, kept a journal since the age of 16, (20 volumes today), which helped serve as the source of many of his "medical stories" for the book. It is no wonder that Hamilton paints vivid details into the writing, illuminating not only places and times, but specific human emotions and conversations.

The Scalpel and the Soul covers a lifetime of unusual mind-body encounters Hamilton experienced and put into writing. It runs the gamut from the powerful idea of hope in a patient's mind, to the memories of a woman who was clinically dead for 17 minutes. Probing the reader's thoughts, one wonders, is it faith which keeps a stage IV ovarian cancer patient alive years after a terminal diagnosis, are memories stored outside the body, are we a part of a greater consciousness, and who is that light at the end of the tunnel?

Dr. Hamilton certainly doesn't have all of the answers, but he has performed significant lifelong research as a neurosurgeon. A Harvard Medical School-educated doctor, he went on become the Chief of Neurosurgery and Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center. Dr. Hamilton is also a script consultant in neurosurgery for Grey's Anatomy.

The Scalpel and the Soul offers an appendix with "Twenty Rules to Live By," written by the author who has been both surgeon and later a patient. He has visited both sides of the operating table and knows that the number one rule is: Never underestimate luck--good or bad.

Within the covers is a chapter about a man known as Rusty, who is a patient with a brain tumor. "Much of my neurosurgical practice is devoted to brain tumors. I've had the honor of taking care of hundreds of patients with astrocytomas, malignant brain cancers. Very few survive for more than a couple of years...To be `cured' one needs to be lucky indeed--it's a real long shot." Rusty "flunked out of Hospice," and was quite surprised to find that his cancer just quit growing, while others passed on after only a short time.

Luck, Hope, Faith: All are aspects of life which influence the mind, our decisions, and fate.

Premonition, Superstition, Out of Body Experience: All are pieces of the unknown, which to most of us remain unexplained, rather a part of the supernatural.

Read The Scalpel and the Soul whether you're a doctor or a patient, a writer or a reader, a believer or a doubter.

5 Stars

The metaphor that are used in this book can contradict itself at times, yet that make it very interesting to read. Using supernatural and logical explanation to solve life question causes reader to experience an long term contemplation of the mind with self-awareness. Audiences need to have an open-minded when reading this book because of the rational and irreverent explanations that existed during the book. Readers may experience that the author drift off into different subject which is very likely, but have to keep in mind that keeping modern and technical science stabilizing with occultism explanation can be very difficult at times. It may take reader three times to understand the author point of view, which is a great things because it help the reader get an clear clairvoyance on the subject.

It must have taken me at leat 4 times to really appreciate this book. The first time I read it, I put it aside because I couldn't understand it. You need to have the right frame of mind. Once you read the first few pages you will begin to comprehend its aura and depth level. It will definetely make you question our world, our religion, our physics and even the book it self. Note that this book is not ofensive to anybody's religion. It deals with exremely esoteric issues that surpass any degrees of every day thinking. What was also very impressive about this book is its need to link numerous sciences and ideas into a common purpose throughout the years of past, present and future. Imagine:physics, religion, astronomy, chemistry, human laws and constitution inter-related; seperate but united, different but identical. I strongly suggest this book for the reader who is looking to explore life and creation through the vessel of our own "inner-space" experience: our mind.

In "Secrets of the Ancient World", the authors look at the information given in several of Edgar Cayce's readings, reviewing each in light of current scientific findings/knowledge. The main focus here is on Cayce's version of various biblical stories, as well as the information he gave about Atlantis & his earth change prophecies.

One of the things I really liked about this book is that they didn't only discuss those readings for which scientific evidence is showing the possibility of Cayce's correctness. In fact, at times the authors point out where some of the readings were contradictory & share some possible reasons for this.

What I found most intriguing is how Cayce's readings put a "human face" on current scientific findings (mostly archeology & DNA research). For example, it's hard to understand what a group of people were like just through their pottery & artifacts - but where cayce was right on the archeological part of the reading, it lends credance to what he said about who they were as a people.

It's also exciting to see how new findings are impacting (and in many cases shattering) the past archeological, geological, & biological scientific theories that most people held as fact. For instance, it's finally being recognized that "modern" humans have been on this planet for more than 9,500 years - prior to this, many scientists had "etched in stone" that there was no way that this could be possible. Also, research on mitochondrial DNA is now allowing us to see how & where various people migrated throughout ancient times, thus shattering many long-held beliefs concerning the who, what, where, & when of these periods in time.

Below is just a sampling of what you'll find in "Secrets of the Ancient World":

*Noah's flood - is it truth or fiction?
*Genetics research - will it confirm the existence of Atlantis & Mu?
*The search for the Hall of Records
*The pyramids
*Mound builders
*Lilith & Amilius - ancient legend fact?
*The Tower of Babel - legend or fact?
*The parting of the Red Sea
*Apparitions of Mary
*The "Second Coming"
*Earth changes & the science of prophecy

Overall, I found this book to be quite intriguing! If you are at all interested in what science is now showing regarding the Cayce readings then this book is for you!

This books provides a great review and overview of Edgar Cayce's statements related to the origin and destiny of our human race.

Things which for us today are only legends and myths have a basis in reality at some level. Maybe there really was for example a 'medussa' who had snakes of living hair.

Very interesting for me was the idea that Polaris, the North Star, has become lined up with the entrance to The Great Pyramid in 2004. This alignment indicates that our human race is approaching the beginning of a new age or a new 'root race', the fifth root race. This is tied in with the Mayan calendar that indicates that the current age started arouond 3100 BC and will end in December 2012.

The book also contains a chapter about the various apparitions of the Mother Of God at Fatima and other places. Interestingly the Cayce material related to Mary has its parallels in Catholic tradition. Cayce indicated that Mary is the twin soul of the Christ spirit and was created from Adam as is indicated in the bible. It can be interesting to see how the Catholic Church has its own interpretation of these ideas.

The book also talks about the time when the apostles spoke in one language but everyone could understand them. This may not have been a verbal language but instead is a type of radiation that even the plants and animals can understand. Our ability to understand the radiation was lost as is indicated in the Tower Of Babel story in the bible.

Surprisingly the authors feel that Edgar Cayce's statement that the Great Pyramid is 10,500 years old is wrong based on carbon dating of material from the pyramid. But I don't think Edgar Cayce was ever wrong. Sometimes for example he said things would happen in '98 and people thought he meant 1998 but he could just have easily meant 2098 or even 3198.

I think what may be happening there is the radiation from the Great Pyramid nuclear reactions messed up the carbon dating.

Jeff Marzano

Ufo...Contact from Planet Iarga

(which I donated to the ARE library and which mentions Edgar Cayce)

The Giza Power Plant : Technologies of Ancient Egypt

The Mystery of the Crystal Skulls: Unlocking the Secrets of the Past, Present, and Future

Edgar Cayce's Atlantis

Edgar Cayce's Egypt: Psychic Revelations on the Most Fascinating Civilization Ever Known

The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Reader's Edition)

Initiation