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Hidden Promises takes the mind into the world and life of underground vigilantes. Jan and Ward, two PED (Paranormal Enforcement Department) agents decide to take the risk of leaving the agency unofficially and find themselves in unfamiliar territory. They entered the PED under the assumption of research and study, but years later, they realized that their life wasn't theirs any longer. The PED forbade them to become romantically involved, therefore Jan and Ward were forced to live a dangerous and mysterious life as husband and wife. They had became so used to taking orders and carrying out assignments governed by top notch agents, and now, their new life from the agency provided them with life-changing decisions to make. After leaving the agency, their responsibilities to the people who needed them most, remained a part of who they were. In addition to having a special talent for mind reading, that the agency cultivated, they possessed the skills to camouflage their true identity to close down an organization that sold women who attempted to cross the borders of Mexico, as slave laborers.
This book is very edgy. It kept me wanting to go to the end just to learn the outcome. I was able to picture each image in my mind, and felt as though I was a spectator watching everything unfold. I thought it would be so wonderful if I were able to read minds. I enjoyed this book.

Reviewer: Wanda

This has changed my life! I can't believe I didn't find something like this sooner. Thank you!

Casting about for an idea for a book, Jane, a writer and author, along with her husband thought of trying some experiments in the paranormal, beginning with a Ouija board. After many failed sessions they eventually began to receive answers to their questions. Their "contact" soon seemed to tire of the slow pace and indicated that he could transmit ideas more rapidly with Jane's voice, And so he did, after Jane had volunteered to lapse into a trance state. Jane thus became one of the early channelers of our present era, eventually leading to over 900 session, 8 or more "Seth" books, plus many authored by Jane herself. These have resulted in thousands of readers worldwide who seem to be loosely referred to as "Sethians" or "Seth Readers." It is useless here to expound on the Seth concepts, which Seth himself says have appeared in many ways over the millennia of our earthly civilizations, in one form or another.
Seth considers this book to be the first in his series, followed by his second: "Seth Speaks."

Seth-Jane delivers brilliant information on opening the doors to the inner abilities all of us possess but simply are unaware of how to tap into. The instructions for your own development are practical and easy to do and do not require a great deal of time. ESP has many practical uses on a day to day basis, why would anyone NOT want to learn this skill?

I am quite impressed with Harold Sherman's approach and candor. He actually teaches one how to improve & control their ESP abilities. He is frank and honest about his failures as well as successes. He doesn't pretend to know how it works, but has theories that he puts forth for consideration. I would definitely recommend this book to those interested in working with ESP. Don't think, however, that you'll absorb all of it in the first reading. Not if you are a truly serious student.

This is a classic "how to" book on ESP. It also imparts the interesting life of author Harold Sherman. Very interesting and informative. The used book was in very good shape.

mtapioca

Paul Huson has written a very readable and enjoyable book on a fascinating topic. His exercises help us all access the amazing amount of wisdom we hold inside. I highly recommend this book.

Our bodies are beset by frailties, and are full of passions for things that are unhealthy for us. Then they die and that's it. Unless you believe in the soul. The concept of soul has been a comfort, and a goad, throughout time. Souls are our most valuable, even divine, assets, our best qualities, and they live long after the body is gone. Some say the souls get rewards or punishments, and some say they get to inhabit some other body, and some say that the idea of souls helps us get around our inevitable deaths but that souls haven't been shown to exist any more than any of our gods have. Souls are supposed to be eternal and constant, but our portrayals of them have changed drastically over the centuries. In _Imagining the Soul: A History_ (Sutton Publishing), Rosalie Osmond guides us through the ways we have depicted souls, from the ancient Egyptians through western history until now; it is a rewarding tour not only for the history involved but for what the images tell us about ourselves.

The ancient Egyptians pictured a soul as a bird with a human head, combining the person with the capacity of flight. The ancient Greeks kept the visual image of the winged soul, but had the first ideas of souls that would separate from bodies at death and survive independently thereafter. Plato thought that thoughts were the best things that humans produced, and he insisted that souls were in charge of this function. Christian teachers borrowed many of the Greek ideas and modified them. Significantly, the church fathers imagined souls as having some sort of mystic bodies of their own; the Greeks could stand abstractions, but the early church stood by at least half-corporeal souls, like that of the Hell-tormented Dives who begs Lazarus for water. The spiritualists adopted the idea of literally weighing souls (in addition to producing ectoplasm), but there is a long tradition, even in Greek art, of souls being weighed as part of the judgement they must endure. However, a French thinker named La Mettrie wrote in _The Human Machine_ in 1748 that humans were merely complicated machines, different only in degree from timepieces or lizards. As the idea is expressed currently, mind is entirely a product of brain. Certainly, if you mess with a brain by trauma or drugs, you do change its mental product.

The manifestations of the soul and its images though history are extraordinarily rich, and Osmond is a witty guide who is obviously delighted by what her research has turned up. She frequently uses exclamation points to show just how funny or ironic she finds many of the ideas and pictures here. There is organization to the work, with a chapter on souls as depicted in the theater and another on souls at the very time of death. There is concentration on how each society has handled the folklore of souls in comparison to what can truly be known about them, especially in current scientific views. Osmond has obviously wide erudition, and has presented it entertainingly in a well-illustrated volume.

A GREAT BOOK TO READ FOR INSIGHT ABOUT REALITY IN ALL SIDES OF LIFE. IT'S A VERY MOTLEY BOOK, SO EVERYONE CAN FIND SOMETHING TO RELATE TO IN IT. NOT ONLY DOES THE AUTHOR GATHER INFORMATION FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE, BUT TAKES DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES FROM OTHER ACOUNTABLE SOURCES TO ELIMINATE BIASED OPPINIONS AND CLOSED-MINDED OUTLOOKS. THE IMPRISONED SPLENDOUR CONTAINS INFORMATION ON PHYSICAL, PSYCHICAL, AND MYSTICAL DATA PRESENTED IN AN INDUCTIVE MANNER. I RECOMMEND THE BOOK TO ANYONE WHO IS A CURIOUS, AND OPEN-MINDED INDIVIDUAL. I ENJOYED THE BOOK IMMENSELY.

I found this book to be an excellent read on the subject of physical mediumship, providing a thorough and comprehensive first-hand report of the author's extensive experience in this field. His story reads as a chronological account from past to present as he drives forward in his quest to achieve new goals of communication with the spirit world, many of which would be achieved in time. Robin describes how he and his wife build lasting relationships with many personalities, both living and in spirit, as they work together and participate in many different developing circles of physical mediumship. Some of these names include well-known people such as Winston Churchill and Leslie Flint.

This book serves as a prequel to the ground-breaking work accomplished by the author and his colleagues during The Scole Experiments, narrating all of the events of his personal journey that would lead up to the pioneering work yet to come. The author humbly and honestly details all of the excitements and disappointments involved in his work, yet he doggedly pushes on with the determination of a person driven by the search for truth. The overall theme seems to be persistence and an apt ability to continue on, focusing only on the ultimate objective. And as time would show, his persistence would be rewarded with success.

Anyone who reads this book would agree that it gives great insight into the inner workings of a physical mediumship circle, making it a valuable resource for an experienced sitter or an individual just looking to learn what they can about this subject. With over 33 years of experience under his belt, the author is widely considered to be one of the foremost authorities on physical mediumship. His experiences that began in 1976 continue still today, and act as an instrument in bridging the past with the present, fostering the next generation of spiritual seekers.

This book is a "must have" for any individual seriously interested in either researching physical mediumship or experiencing it for themselves. If this were a college course, this book could be listed as "Physical Mediumship 101."