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BACK IN PRINT! Two out of five Americans report sensing meaningful contacts with lost loved ones. Such contacts are usually comforting and surprisingly intense. Most do not involve mediums, and unlike near-death experiences, they come unexpectedly to healthy people going about their normal lives. Here are moving, never-before published stories of apparent afterlife communication told in the perceivers' own words. Comparing today's western b...

I wrote Otherwhere: A Field Guide to Nonphysical Reality for the Out-of-Body Traveler in the early 1990s to sum up nearly twenty years of out-of-body adventures that began when I was fifteen years old.These adventures took me into nonphysical realms in which time and space behaved differently, "quite other" than we normally experience them-hence the name Otherwhere. I explored the locations where our dreams occur and where we find ourselves af...

Claims of Reincarnationis one of the foremost works to have been published in India during the latter part of the twentieth century. Dr. Satwant Pasricha has investigated hundreds of cases in her native land and is considered to be one of the leading authorities in the field of empirical investigations into past-life claims. First published in 1990, this book is as relevant today as it was when it made its debut and is a valuable addition for ...

The author, a retired lawyer and former president of the Oxford University Society for Psychical Research has spent many years researching psychic phenomena and observing how it interacts with our daily lives. In Talking about Psychical Research: Thoughts on Life, Death and the Nature of Reality, Mary Rose Barrington asks, "What is the point of psychical research?" She goes on to share her thoughts on subjects including telepathy, clairvoyance...

Dr Alex Tanous (1926-1990) was a renowned international lecturer on the topics of well-being, creativity and parapsychology. A self-professed psychic, he spent 20 years of his life while working as a university lecturer being tested for his claims of 'light project' and going 'out-of-the-body' at will. He was also well-known for placing his predictions of future events on record. This book - written in the 1980s by Tanous and colleagues - "giv...

The One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge was a cash prize offered from 1964 to 2015 by stage magician James 'The Amazing' Randi for anyone who could convince him they had psychic powers. No one ever came close to winning, proof, say sceptical scientists, that there is no such thing as 'the paranormal'. But are they right? In this illuminating and often provocative analysis, Robert McLuhan examines the influence of Randi and other debunking ...

In the first of a series of "White Crow Anthologies, " In Times of War: Messages of Wisdom from Soldiers in the Afterlifedocuments conversations with soldiers who purport to have been near death or killed as a result of war. The communicators aren't mystics, sages or saints-just ordinary people who having passed on claim they haven't died at all and feel more alive than ever in their post-physical state. From Plato's time 2, 400 years ago to t...

In Project Phenomena: Evaluating the Paranormal, researcher Brian Allan in his characteristic matter-of-fact style, presents a fascinating smorgasbord of information relating to paranormal phenomena with the intention of demonstrating once and for all, that a separate reality really does exist alongside our own that can and does interact with us. The book contains recent events involving approved séances in the Vatican and a demonic infestatio...

I don't remember hearing any snorts or whinnies. I don't remember smelling the sweat streaming off the newly unsaddled backs or seeing the dust kicked up by the drumming hooves. The only thing I remember was me, my essence, my soul, popping out of my body several seconds before it was caught up in a stampede. I didn't feel my arm caught in the stirrup or sense the impact of the horse's body as he twisted me around and slammed me with his head....

More Spirit Teachings, firstpublished in 1892, follows on from Spirit Teachingsexpounding wisdom and truths from Imperator and his group of discarnate communicators. Subjects discussed include Christ's purpose for incarnating on Earth, spirit influence, reincarnation, capital punishment, the hierarchy of communication, the nature of God, truth and fallacy in the Bible, divine judgement versus self judgement and much more. During one communicat...

William Stainton Moses, an Anglican priest, authoredSpirit Teachingsin 1883, nine years before his passing. It is now considered a classic in the Spiritualist genre. Initially, Moses was antagonistic toward spirit communication, calling the mediumship of D. D. Home "the dreariest twaddle". However, in 1872 he attended a séance for the first time and five months later became aware he had psychic abilities which eventually manifested as automati...

Why do we dream? How have dreams helped inspire creative artists? How useful are they in daily problem solving? What evidence is there for second sight in dreaming? How much can dreams tell us about the future? In this wide ranging and immensely stimulating account, Brian Inglis first sifts the historical evidence and then describes recent scientific research, before proclaiming the empirical evidence both for a psychic element in dreams and f...

All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players …"But how do we take our place in the drama and understand our ever-changing roles? From Shakespeare's infant, "mewling and puking in the nurse's arms" through to the "second childishness and mere oblivion" of old age, Braham Murray draws on over half a century of experience in the theatre, to reflect, through the prism of the world's greatest drama and its most insightful philo...

Julian of Norwich was the first woman in the world to write a book in English, and yet had largely disappeared from view until her rediscovery during the twentieth century.A fourteenth century anchoress in Norwich, she lived in a cell for forty years, surrounded by savage plague, political inequality and religious bigotry.Yet Julian gave the world one of its most famous calls to hope: 'All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of...

What exactly is psi? Why has the paranormal consistently been condemned by the scientific establishment? Why have its manifestations - ESP, psychokinesis, poltergeists and so on, which have been reported from every era, from every part of the world and all its walks of life - been so scathingly dismissed by supporters of scientism? Brian Inglis was bought up to regard science 'almost as a religion'. Such, he now fears, is precisely what it has...

Did religion legitimise magick or magick legitimise religion? Logic would suggest the latter because shamanic and animistic traditions have long predated organised religion. In this book the author delves deep into the genre and posits the idea that that religion and magick are one and the same. Examples of mystical and magickal occurrences in the Catholic cannon include visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary, miraculous healing, levitation, weepi...

Poltergeists was first published in 1979 and rapidly established itself as a leading work on the topic. It has been frequently referred to as groundbreaking and a classic of the genre. Illustrative cases from all over the world are presented, dating from the sixteenth century to the late twentieth. Included are destructive cases, fantastical cases, poltergeist assaults, phenomena that are allegedly brought about by a witch or a demon, and othe...

During the first half of the twentieth century A. T. Baird edited One Hundred Cases for Survival After Death. At the time he wrote, "A thousand equally good cases could be produced as easily, in fact, at times I was embarrassed with the wealth of material at my disposal. … Perhaps later, someone more energetic and enthusiastic, with more time and patience than I have, may publish Five Thousand Cases for Survival, and even then there will be pl...

What was it like in the desert, abbot?' asks Rosemary.And, in a way, this book is his answer.In the first of the acclaimed Abbot Peter mysteries, Peter takes us to St James, a fragile community in the hot sands of Middle Egypt, peopled by those with nowhere else to take their creaking lives. There in the shadows of Mt Sinai Peter faces deception, delusion and death.The monastery is already threatened with closure, due to rationalisation. But w...

Adi Shankara was a South Indian sage and the foremost teacher of Advaita Vedanta, the perennial philosophy that lies at the heart of all religions. Such is his stature that even Ramana Maharshi, probably the best-known modern exponent of Advaita, referred to him simply as Acharya - 'The Teacher' - and translated some of his works from Sanskrit for his own devotees.Advaita offers a vision of life as the manifestation of an absolute, non-dual co...