This, latest addition to my collection of Parker Publishing titles, is another book that might qualify as a first-year textbook at Hogwarts. It touches on a broad range of Psychic phenomena, and includes exercises, tips and anecdotes to help a student along.
The book follows the usual Parker style, which is very readable, and ends each chapter with a series of useful summary points of what the chapter covered. The authors writing style is very clear and readable, almost conversational. She approaches the psychic topics with stories of personal experiences of herself and some fellow experimenters, as well as some references from other authors, and suggest a great deal of confidence in what she writes about. Her approach is very interesting, too. She describes herself as a non-conformist, and with each exercise she advises the would-be psychic to avoid being too rigid in their practice but also that most of the skills easily improve with regular practice.
There's a nice consistency in her book. She opens with spiritualistic subjects, seances and so forth, and then goes on to discuss the energetic auras that surround everyone and everything. all her subsequent psychic abilities relate back to either using the energy of one's own aura, or reading the energetic aura of other things or people.
Some of the topics include:
Mediumship & Séances
The Human Aura & Astral Projection
Telepathy & Thought Transference
Premonition & Precognition
Psychokinesis & Telekinesis
Automatic Writing
Psychometry Powers
Additional subjects covered include reincarnation, spiritualist churches, the use of Ouija boards, and photographic manifestations of the spirit world.
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