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Preface . . . xv
Introduction . . . xvii
Lesson One: What is Mediumship? . . . 1
Beginnings. Channeling. Possession. Exercises.
Trance. Development and chakra enhancement.
Exercise. Raising your vibrations. Lesson one examination questions.
Profile—John Edward
Lesson Two: The World of Spirits . . . 11
Looking into the spirit world. Meeting “God.” The spiritual body. Spirit speech and travel. Other life forms. “Evil” entities. Transition. Lesson two examination questions.
Profile—Jeane Dixon
Lesson Three: The History of Spiritualism,
Part One—The Early Years . . . 21
The episode at Hydesville. Andrew Jackson Davis.
The Fox sisters. Denunciation and retraction. French forerunner. Lesson three examination questions.
Profile—Abraham Lincoln
Lesson Four: The History of Spiritualism,
Part Two—Later Development . . . 35
Development in England. Development in America.
Development Circles. Spiritualism as a religion.
Spiritualism in Europe and South America. Lesson four examination questions.
Profile—Morris Pratt
Lesson Five: Spirit Guides . . . 49
Meditation. Exercise. Safeguards. Exercises. Spirit guides and guardian angels. The doorkeeper. Finding your spirit guide. Exercises. Lesson five examination questions.
Profile—Leonora E. Piper
Lesson Six: Spirit Communication . . . 61
Mediumship. Exercises—affirmations. The problem of connecting. Atmospherics. Dates, names,
and ideas. Symbolism and its interpretation. Interpreting actions. Triviality in messages. Names, colors and lights. Lesson six examination questions.
Profile—Eileen Jeanette Garrett
Lesson Seven: Talking Boards . . . 73
Ancient form of communication.Commercial faults.
Do-it-yourself talking board. Record keeping and a spokesperson. Procedure and verification. Cross correspondence.
Solitary use. Pencil planchette. Caution.
Lesson seven examination questions.
Profile—Rosemary Brown
Lesson Eight: Automatic Writing and Spirit Photography . . . 87
The hand that writes by itself. Don’t try to direct.
Types of messages. Check what you receive. Either hand. Character of the messages received. Patience Worth. Inspirational writing. Typewriters and computers.
Great composers return.Automatic art. Spirit photography—unexpected visitors. British experiments.
Repeatable phenomena.Your own spirit photographs.
Photographs without a camera. Exercises.
Lesson eight examination questions.
Profile—Allan Kardec
Lesson Nine: Trance Work . . . 107
Levels of brainwave activity. Spontaneous trance.
Trance experience. The best way to enter trance.
Exercise. Early symptoms of mediumship. Return from trance. Rules for development. Exercises. Lesson nine examination questions.
Profile—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Lesson Ten: Spirit Sights, Sounds,
and Sensing . . . 119
Clear seeing. Clear hearing and sensing. Exercises.
Scrying or crystal gazing. Clairvoyant exercises.
Clairaudient exercises. Lesson ten examination questions.
Profile—Emanuel Swedenborg
Lesson Eleven: Touching the Past . . . 133
Psychometry exercises. Spirit speaks first. Side benefits.
Different readings for different mediums. Psychometry as a tool in spirit communication. Billets and billet reading. Flower reading. Lesson eleven examination questions.
Profile—Arthur Ford
Lesson Twelve: Physical Mediumship . . . 145
Eusapia Paladino. Spirits take charge. Transfiguration.
Ectoplasm and materialization.Apports. Developing physical mediumship. Lesson twelve examination questions.
Profile—Edgar Cayce
Lesson Thirteen: Table Tipping and Levitation . . . 161
Choice of table. Circle of hands. Thumps of intelligence.
Question and answer. Levitation. Under or over? Early French methods. Lesson thirteen examination questions.
Profile—Sir William Crookes
Lesson Fourteen: Healing . . . 173
Spiritual healing. Edgar Cayce. Some British spiritual healers. Becoming a healer. Chakras. The human aura. Three layers of light. Train yourself to be sensitive.
You, the healer. Distant healing. Lesson fourteen examination questions.
Profile—Gérard Coiset
Lesson Fifteen: Channeling . . . 187
Channeling versus mediumship. Origins. Channeled material. How to channel. Exercise. Real or imagined?
Channeled or inspirational? Lesson fifteen examination questions.
Profile—Lily Dale Assembly
Lesson Sixteen: Development and Development Circles . . . 197
Lack of good mediums. New wave of psychics. Full circle. Development Circles. Exercises—your own development circle. Into mediumship. Record keeping is important. Rescue circles. Lesson sixteen examination questions.
Profile—Dion Fortune
Lesson Seventeen: Electronic Spirit Contact . . . 207
Modern tools of communication. Exercises—your own EVPS and ITC. From slates to laptops.
Afterword . . . 215
Appendix A: Fraudulent Practices . . . 217
Appendix B: Answers to Examination Questions . . . 227
Glossary . . . 243
Bibliography . . . 249
Index . . . 257
Acknowledgments
Many thanks to all the people at Llewellyn who made this book possible.
Thanks also to the National Spiritualist Association of Churches, the Lily Dale Assembly,
Ron Nagy and Joyce LaJudice of the Lily Dale Museum for their support and encouragement.
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Scott Clausen
reviewed Buckland's Book of Spirit Communications on July 18, 2008
Buckland's Book of Spirit Communications
A rather interesting look at developing psychic or mediumship abilities. This book draws heavily on the works of the National Spiritualist Association of Churches as well as historical accounts of mediumship throughout the last century and a half.
For a practical guide to developing these abilities I'm not sure I would recommend this book. However, from an historical point of view it covers some interesting topics although it serves as an apologist work for much of the physical medium movement of the past 150 years and rarely looks with a critical eye at that movement.
For that reason I consider it something of a starting point for delving further into the social and historical phenomenon of mediumship and spirit communication.
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