The Truth Behind Ghosts, Mediums, and Psychic Phenomena

Author: Ron Rhodes
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
ISBN: 0736936653
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description
Psychics, mediums, and ghosts have become a sensation in our culture today. As a result, there are many confusing and deceptive beliefs presented. Ron Rhodes, respected and popular biblical scholar, tackles the truth about ghosts and those who say they communicate with them and answers the questions: Do ghosts in any shape or form exist? Why is there a rise in psychic phenomena today? What do psychics believe about God, Jesus, and salvation? What is Satan's role with the paranormal? How can parents protect their family from the psychic trend? This reader-friendly presentation of intriguing facts and biblical insights will help Christians know how to respond to this fascination with the ultimate truth.

Unruly Spirits

Author: M. Brady Brower
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 025203564X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234

Book Description
Unruly Spirits connects the study of séances, telepathy, telekinesis, materializations, and other parapsychic phenomena in France during the age of Sigmund Freud to an epistemological crisis that would eventually yield the French adoption of psychoanalysis. Skillfully navigating experiments conducted by nineteenth-century French psychical researchers and the wide-ranging debates that surrounded their work, M. Brady Brower situates the institutional development of psychical research at the intersection of popular faith and the emergent discipline of psychology. Brower shows how spiritualist mediums were ignored by French academic scientists for nearly three decades. Only after the ideologues of the Third Republic turned to science to address what they took to be the excess of popular democracy would the marvels of mediumism begin to emerge as legitimate objects of scientific inquiry. Taken up by the most prominent physicists, physiologists, and psychologists of the last decades of the nineteenth century, psychical research would eventually stall in the 1920s as researchers struggled to come to terms with interpersonal phenomena (such as trust and good faith) that could not be measured within the framework of their experimental methods. In characterizing psychical research as something other than a mere echo of popular spirituality or an anomaly among the sciences, Brower argues that the questions surrounding mediums served to sustain the scientific project by forestalling the establishment of a closed and complete system of knowledge. By acknowledging persistent doubt about the intentions of its participants, psychical research would result in the realization of a subjectivity that was essentially indeterminate and would thus clear the way for the French reception of psychoanalysis and the Freudian unconscious and its more comprehensive account of subjective uncertainty.

Psychic

Author: Hans Holzer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780765109538
Category : Parapsychology
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Psychic: True Paranormal Experiences" goes beyond time and space to explore incredible stories of real experiences within the psychic dimension. Gathered by best-selling author and paranormal expert Hans Holzer over years of research and stuck this fascinating and comprehensive volume looks at phenomena such as ESP, ghosts, mediums, time travel, psychic dreams, prophesies, out-of-body experiences, famous haunted houses, and more. Each subject area includes true stories as well as background information and possible explanations for each tantalizing psychic topic. Includes a fun section that lets readers test their own psychic abilities and learn how to develop ESP.

The Afterlife Experiments

Author: Gary E. Schwartz
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 074344258X
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 379

Book Description
An esteemed scientist's personal journey from skepticism to wonder and awe provides astonishing answers to a timeless question: Is there life after death? Are love and life eternal? This exciting account presents provocative evidence that could upset everything that science has ever taught. Daring to risk his worldwide academic reputation, Dr. Gary E. Schwartz, along with his research partner Dr. Linda Russek, asked some of the most prominent mediums in America -- including John Edward, Suzane Northrup, and George Anderson -- to become part of a series of extraordinary experiments to prove, or disprove, the existence of an afterlife. THE AFTERLIFE EXPERIMENTS This riveting narrative, with its electrifying transcripts, puts the reader on the scene of a breakthrough scientific achievement: contact with the beyond under controlled laboratory conditions. In stringently monitored experiments, leading mediums attempted to contact dead friends and relatives of "sitters" who were masked from view and never spoke, depriving the mediums of any cues. The messages that came through stunned sitters and researchers alike. Here, as they unfolded in the laboratory setting, are uncanny revelations about a son's suicide, what a deceased father wanted to say about his last days in a coma, the transformation of a man's lifelong doubts about the afterlife, and, most amazing of all, a forecast of a beloved spouse's death. Dr. Schwartz was forced by the overwhelmingly positive data to abandon his skepticism, reaching some startling conclusions. Compelling from the first page to the last, The Afterlife Experiments is the amazing documentation of groundbreaking experiments you will never forget.

Paranormal America (second Edition)

Author: Christopher D. Bader
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479819654
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 319

Book Description
"Based on extensive research and their own unique personal experiences, the authors reveal that a significant number of Americans hold these beliefs, and that for better or worse, we undoubtedly live in a paranormal America. Readers will join the authors as they participate in psychic and palm readings, and have their auras photographed, join a Bigfoot hunt, follow a group of celebrity ghost hunters as they investigate claims of a haunted classroom, and visit a support group for alien abductees."--Provided by publisher.

How to Be a Christian Psychic: What the Bible Says about Mediums, Healers and Paranormal Investigators

Author: Adrian Lee
Publisher: Wisdom Editions
ISBN: 9781939548344
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Book Description
Using the Bible as reference, historian and psychic investigator Adrian Lee, a devout Christian, digs deeply into religious beliefs that appear on the surface to denounce the work of mediums, healers, and psychics. He explains these passages clearly and in historical context, challenging Christians to understand the deeper meanings and various settings in which these passages were intended to apply, so that the bible's true message can emerge. He also explains his work as a healer and psychic investigator, showing how Christians can safely and effectively use their own God-given psychic gifts to help others.

Ghosthunters

Author: John B. Kachuba
Publisher: Career Press
ISBN: 9781564149374
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 249

Book Description
Uses personal observations and interviews with mediums, exorcists, and paranormal investigators to explore the state of the paranormal in America.

Ghost Hunters

Author: Deborah Blum
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780143038955
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 388

Book Description
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Poision Squad and The Poisoner's Handbook tells the amazing story of William James's quest for empirical evidence of the spirit world What if a world-renowned philosopher and professor of psychiatry at Harvard suddenly announced he believed in ghosts? At the close of the nineteenth century, the illustrious William James led a determined scientific investigation into "unexplainable" incidences of clairvoyance and ghostly visitations. James and a small group of eminent scientists staked their reputations, their careers, even their sanity on one of the most extraordinary quests ever undertaken: to empirically prove the existence of ghosts, spirits, and psychic phenomena. What they pursued—and what they found—raises questions as fascinating today as they were then.

Psychic Blues

Author: Mark Edward
Publisher: Feral House
ISBN: 1936239280
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
With dark humor Magic Castle alumnus explores the business of psychics.

NIV, Bible for Men, eBook

Author: Zondervan,
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0310411084
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 2740

Book Description
Enrich your spiritual life and relationship with God every single day In a world that tells us to be and live however we want, the NIV Bible for Men inspires you to be better, dig deeper into your soul, and do more with what God gave you. Spiritually challenging and thought-provoking, each of the daily readings will move you toward one goal: enriching your spiritual life and relationship with God. Each reading begins with a short, shareable statement that introduces you to that day’s meaningful, concise topic designed to address the challenges and expectations that will instantly connect with your experience, such as career, sexuality, leadership, pornography, relationships, financial stability, spiritual growth, substance addiction, culture, character, education, self-image and more. The NIV Bible for Men will help you to apply the Bible to your life every day. As you read and learn, this will quickly become your go-to Bible. Features: Complete text of the accurate, readable, and clear New International Version (NIV) 260 weekday readings from young pastors and leaders such as Matt Chandler, Shane Claiborne, Craig Groeschel, and Gabe Lyons 2 methods to engage: reading through the Bible from Genesis to Revelation or by using the topical index 52 ”Myth Articles” state commonly accepted myths in our culture today, then respond to those myths with insights from God’s Word