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2) Through a glass, darkly: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the quest to solve the greatest mystery of all
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A chronicle of the Spiritualism era in America discusses how it was largely instigated by a grieving public in the aftermath of the Civil War and how it was supported by famous notables including Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
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Relates the story of two early-twentieth-century cousins who believed they saw real fairies, created photographs using paper cutouts when they were teased by adult family members, and inadvertently drew the attention of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a fellow believer.
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"Renowned mystery author Arthur Conan Doyle and famous illusionist Harry Houdini first met in 1920, during the magician's tour of England. At the time, Conan Doyle had given up his lucrative writing career, killing off Sherlock Holmes in the process, in order to concentrate on his increasingly manic interest in Spiritualism. Houdini, who regularly conducted seances in an attempt to reach his late mother, was also infatuated with the idea of what he...
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All too often we feel very small, as if our lives are insignificant compared to the vastness of the universe, especially when we suffer the grief of losing a loved one. But in this, Jacqueline Rogers' uplifting and often astonishing debut book, we learn that being human is a very special thing and that our spirits are far from small. She describes her very personal experiences as a healer and a medium with great courage, and inspires us all to see...
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Swamiji and Stories of His Life
Paramhansa Yogananda once said to a group of disciples: "You must not let the symphony of your life go unfinished."
This phrase perfectly describes the last years of Swami Kriyananda's life, which were a crescendo of divine love and untiring service to humanity. Who was Swami Kriyananda? What was it like to know this close and direct disciple of the great Master, Paramhansa Yogananda?
In Swamiji, Miriam Rodgers...
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A revised edition of the book by the same title, first published in 1993, with additional photographs, some explanatory footnotes and, as Addendum, the Foreword by the renowned healer Harry Edwards written for the author's original privately printed book 'The Enigma of Psychic Phenomena' (1974) from which most of the material in this book was taken. Throughout his life, the author sat with many well-known mediums of his time amongst them Helen Duncan,...
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Billy' Hope is probably the best-known Psychic (Spirit) Photographer ever. People travelled from across the world to sit with him and Mrs. Buxton, otherwise known as the 'Crewe Circle'. Yet there has never been a book about him.
There are snippets in several books on his work but never a book analysing the accusations of fraud matched by the investigations into those claims, and proofs of genuine work from those who had tested him, under strict 'fool-proof'...
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Playboy and I were coincidentally born in 1954. Its centerfolds dogged me into my adulthood adding color to an already quirky, dysfunctional, and, at times, violent life. And while I was taught antiquated Victorian principles, the men around me embraced Hugh Heffner's new sexual revolution and his philosophy designating women as playthings for their own entertainment. On the one hand, I was taught to respect, and do, a man's bidding, and, to never...
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Lori es la poderosa memoria de una mujer que viene a reconocerse y reconocer sus dones previamente rechazados para poder cumplir con su destino.
En las culturas indígenas de Centroamérica, lo que la medicina occidental llama enfermedad mental es entendida como la señal del nacimiento de un sanador o chamán. Los desórdenes mentales son vistos como emergencias espirituales que requieren apoyo de sabios de la comunidad que entienden la conexión...
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Marguerite Jalving, is a person with both feet on the ground. With her high heels and elegant style, she stands with her strong temperament, firm in her own opinions. She gives vent to spontaneous anger as well as enthusiasm and sometimes less humble thoughts to Sai Baba, when she thinks, He goes too far. At the same time, she feels the deepest affection and humble surrender for the divine, which is this book's paradox. You will find the book both...
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In a busy London hospital, a young nurse cares for people with HIV/AIDS. One night, at the bedside of a dying patient, the veil lifts between life and death, and she glimpses something she has never seen before.
Judith embarks on a quest to understand what she saw. She leaves her job, sells her houseboat and buys a one-way ticket to Bombay.
Her six-year search for meaning took her to a humble Himalayan ashram, where she embraced the sadhu's life...
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Marguerite Jalving, is a person with both feet on the ground. With her high heels and elegant style, she stands with her strong temperament, firm in her own opinions. She gives vent to spontaneous anger as well as enthusiasm and sometimes less humble thoughts to the Master, when she thinks, He goes too far. At the same time, she feels the deepest affection and humble surrender for the divine, which is this book's paradox. You will find the book both...
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She is a gifted communicator with the Spirit World. Her latest journey into last meals of executed prisoners and food choices for letting go of her past, challenges each of us to think about what our last meal choices might be and why. Thinking she was done, the Spirit World challenged her to pick a food to celebrate a new beginning as she returned to working with the Spirit World after a lengthy illness. Lessons learned, Soul Groups, Energy Centers/Chakras...
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I was out to sea, five hundred miles from help when I experienced a life-threatening illness. I had no choice but to depend upon God for my life. This book gives an account of my journey from near-death on-board ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean through fear and darkness, to trust and healing. I learned how to fight for healing and restoration using body, mind, and spirit. I depended upon God and came through my experience with grace. Like...
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Have you been touched by the Mystery? You may not remember it but we have all been touched in some mysterious way by the divine. Though we know that traumatic memories are often suppressed, the fact that we all, particularly as children, are likely to have had significant spiritual experiences of great goodness and importance to us is generally rejected, its remembrance discouraged. But these experiences remain within us, ready to re-awaken, when...
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As a skeptic and firm believer in science, Kiersten struggled with her newfound intuitive skills and the reason they were coming to light. She powered through fear to reach out to strangers and law enforcement with the messages she received. After receiving validation that what she was experiencing was real, helping families and law enforcement became a mission. It had to be, the kids were coming to her for help. One question remained: Why was this...
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On 24 November 1991 people all over the world mourned the untimely death of Freddie Mercury, lead singer of rock band Queen. But for the author, Mary Howis, her life would never be the same, as, from that day forward, she was aware of a strange presence around her; someone from the spirit world – the spirit that once was Freddie Mercury, known in the spirit world as 'the Mercury Man'. Mary had been chosen for a special mission – to be an instrument...
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A fine, readable, definitive book on Psychic Phenomena - Tom Harrison writes here of his lifetime of experiences with psychic Physical Phenomena, particularly in their spiritualist Home Circle between 1946 and 1958, with his mother, Minnie Harrison, as the medium, where he met and spoke with over 1500 materialized spirit people. This German translation of the 2008 revised English edition, with Index, contains many photographs of phenomena, and details...
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