Reunions

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Summary: How to communicate with your departed loved ones!
Review: This is a fascinating book! I could hardly put it down. It describes the use of mirror-gazing to reunite with loved ones who have crossed to "The Other Side." Not only how to do it, but examples of others who have visited with their departed loved ones, and historical references. At times it is repetitive, but well worth reading. Highly-recommended.

Rating:
Summary: How to communicate with your departed loved ones!
Review: This is a fascinating book! I could hardly put it down. It describes the use of mirror-gazing to reunite with loved ones who have crossed to "The Other Side." Not only how to do it, but examples of others who have visited with their departed loved ones, and historical references. At times it is repetitive, but well worth reading. Highly-recommended.

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Summary: Calling Forth Visions
Review: This must be the third time that I've read this remarkable book since its first publication. Every time I've read it, I have been compelled to read it cover to cover as soon as possible. It is difficult to put down- for so much else that I might be occupied with seems trivial by comparison.

Essentially this is a book on calling up waking visions. To do so is to tap into our unconscious minds while still awake. The remarkable part is the claim that this can be done on a predictable, controllable basis that might even provide the rigid standards of repeatability required for traditional laboratory study. Of course I find this concession to science less significant than the fact that it actually works. This is demonstrated by multiple brief case studies conducted by the author- as well as detailed instructions on how to repeat the results on your own. Indeed an alternate title to this book could have been "A How to Guide to Building and Operating your own Psychomanteum." That's a refreshing attitude, that the innate ability to delve into our unconscious lies within all of us without the need of a mediator....

One of the primary motivations for seeking such visions is evidence that we survive death. In this regard apparitions of the deceased (whether spontaneous or incubated) rank with near death experiences and shamanic voyages. They all provide access to the Middle Realm.

Other than the motivation to contact the dead to personally confirm the survival of the personality, it may provide several other incredibly useful functions. Such controlled visions could greatly accelerate the speed, and increase the effectiveness, of psychotherapy. Of course the value of actually contacting deceased loved ones is obvious in grief consoling. Beyond this, since such visions have been known to transcend time (as well as space) there could be application to historical research. The author also points out that an incredible amount of our mythological and literary heritage seems to be the gift of such visions. Indeed, Plato's parable of the cave may very well parody the operation of the great psychomanteum at Ephyra.

My only question is why this book, and the "Theater of the Mind", has not generated greater popular or scholarly interest?