Dewey Edition22
Reviews"Most people know Buckland's incredibly popular Complete Book of Witchcraftaffectionately known as 'Bucky's Big Blue Book'--and because of its size, format and workbook style, the Book of Spirit Communicationsis quickly becoming known as 'Bucky's Big Red Book!' This is an incredibly useful and informative introduction to spiritualism and all it entails: mediumship, Ouija boards, automatic writing, trance, clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, psychometry, able tipping, levitation, healing, channeling and the weird method of electronic spirit contact. . . . For centuries witches have been accused of conjuring up the dead, and now you can live up to that reputation--this is necromancy made easy!" --Witchcraft
Table Of ContentPreface . . . xv Introduction . . . xvii Lesson One: What is Mediumship? . . . 1 Lesson Two: The World of Spirits . . . 11 Lesson Three: The History of Spiritualism, Part One--The Early Years . . . 21 Lesson Four: The History of Spiritualism, Part Two--Later Development . . . 35 Lesson Five: Spirit Guides . . . 49 Lesson Six: Spirit Communication . . . 61 Lesson Seven: Talking Boards . . . 73 Lesson Eight: Automatic Writing and Spirit Photography . . . 87 Lesson Nine: Trance Work . . . 107 Lesson Ten: Spirit Sights, Sounds, and Sensing . . . 119 Lesson Eleven: Touching the Past . . . 133 Lesson Twelve: Physical Mediumship . . . 145 Lesson Thirteen: Table Tipping and Levitation . . . 161 Lesson Fourteen: Healing . . . 173 Lesson Fifteen: Channeling . . . 187 Lesson Sixteen: Development and Development Circles . . . 197 Lesson Seventeen: Electronic Spirit Contact . . . 207 Afterword . . . 215 Appendix A: Fraudulent Practices . . . 217 Appendix B: Answers to Examination Questions . . . 227 Glossary . . . 243 Bibliography . . . 249 Index . . . 257
SynopsisBuckland's Book of Spirit Communications is for anyone who wishes to communicate with spirits, as well as for the less adventurous who simply want to satisfy their curiosity about the subject. Explore the nature of the physical body and learn how to prepare yourself to become a medium. Experience for yourself the trance state, clairvoyance, psychometry, table tipping, levitation, talking boards, automatic writing, spiritual photography, spiritual healing, distant healing, channeling, and development circles. Also learn how to avoid spiritual fraud. This revised and expanded edition of Buckland's popular Doors to Other Worlds has over one hundred new pages, including a completely new chapter on electronic spirit contact. It features additional photographs and illustrations, an index, a new preface, and a workbook format with study questions and answers for each chapter., Buckland's Book of Spirit Communicationsis for anyone who wishes to communicate with spirits, as well as for the less adventurous who simply want to satisfy their curiosity about the subject. Explore the nature of the physical body and learn how to prepare yourself to become a medium. Experience for yourself the trance state, clairvoyance, psychometry, table tipping, levitation, talking boards, automatic writing, spiritual photography, spiritual healing, distant healing, channeling, and development circles. Also learn how to avoid spiritual fraud. This revised and expanded edition of Buckland's popular Doors to Other Worldshas over one hundred new pages, including a completely new chapter on electronic spirit contact. It features additional photographs and illustrations, an index, a new preface, and a workbook format with study questions and answers for each chapter.