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| Inspiration and Equipment | |
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| Your body and your psyche, how they act together and share activities | |
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| The "play" attitude for psychic development: getting your friends to join in for companionship and competition | |
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| Psychic development, a part of your natural development | |
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| Helping your body to help your psyche: diet, rest, exercise | |
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| The need for meditation | |
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| The Tabor Formulation, your daily meditation for psychic development, based on an early medieval Western mystical technique: posture, breathing, awareness, mantras | |
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| Your physical exercise and how to make it truly aerobic | |
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| Make your own equipment for your psychic development program: alternative designs for pendulum, ESP cards, vision mirror. Keeping the log. | |
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| Exploring Your Potential | |
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| Your attitude to life, an important factor in your psychic development program | |
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| The great enemies: boredom, stress, prolonged mental concentration | |
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| Don"t overtest: have fun! Your psychic abilities, manifestations of life seeking outward and inward contacts | |
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| Have real interests in the natural world and in the human world, and have peace within yourself | |
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| Initial tests with ESP cards, for the group and the individual | |
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| Using your pendulum for telekinesis, and for answering questions | |
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| The game of "Mind Painting," a fun test in projecting and perceiving imagined shapes | |
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| How to examine all test results for evidence of foreknowledge. | |
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| Psychic Abilities and Mechanisms | |
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| The psyche, a vast reality to explore | |
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| Two main subject areas: the action of the psyche upon matter, and the action of one psyche upon another | |
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| The four levels of human existence | |
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| The astral level, seat of psychic powers | |
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| "Reflection on the Psycho-physical Unity," a vital meditative process for you as an individual | |
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| How and when to perform it, its key aspects for reflection | |
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| Telekinesis and telepathy contrasted: two historic experiments | |
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| True nature of telekinesis | |
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| The game of "Guessing Dice," a famous gambling game adapted to bring out its psychic aspects even more strongly. | |
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| Insight and Foreknowledge | |
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| Different types of foreknowledge | |
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| Old Testament prophecy: "Saul among the prophets," escape from the dominance of rational consciousness | |
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| Source of prophetic knowledge: explanatory description of eight ways of knowing which bypass rational consciousness | |
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| Developing the prophetic faculty | |
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| Call-in, a game with ESP cards, to encourage prediction and telepathy | |
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| The vision mirror: practice in two stages to develop the faculty of scrying, and a group scrying game which is both testing and fun. | |
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| Astral Imprints | |
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| How do material objects have psychic impressions associated with them? What Dr | |
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| Taverner didn"t quite say about "the soul of the moonstone." "Haunted" objects | |
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| How to become aware of the impressions a material object has gathered: the art of psychometry | |
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| A method for this, and some pointers for practice alone and in groups. | |
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| The Spiritualist Approach | |
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| Reasons why communication by the discarnate can"t be proved: the still uncharted limits of the incarnate psyche"s powers | |
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| The spiritualist position | |
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| A plan for those who"d like to try sittings in the spiritualist manner | |
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| How to begin | |
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| Opening the circle | |
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| What trance is and what it feels like | |
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| Your spirit visitors, guides, and controls | |
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| Interplane activities: help received and given between the incarnate and discarnate | |
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| Raising energy in the circle: linked hands, incense, song, colored light | |
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| Some problem spirit visitors | |
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| Looking fairly at spiritualism | |
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| How mediumship works | |
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| A glance at the evidence | |
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| Spiritualism"s greatest strength: the verdict of the witnesses, the touchstone of mutual recognition. | |
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| A Search in Two Worlds | |
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| Dowsing, one of our most natural and yet to many people most baffling faculties | |
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| The key to the mystery in the astral level of the psyche and of the external universe | |
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| What the dowsers mean by "remanence" and its significance | |
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| The "unconscious muscular movement" theory of dowsing doesn"t match the facts | |
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| Types of dowsing instruments, their making and use | |
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| If dowsing is a "must" for you, begin by telling your astral being | |
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| Where and how to practice | |
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| Value of the "directive." Programming yourself for the quest | |
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| Signals from the dowsing instrument | |
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| How an experienced friend can help you | |
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| Pendulum dowsing, its unique features and uses. | |
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| Requirements and aids in testing | |
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| Know the test conditions of any other group you want to share results with | |
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| Making sure your group has all that"s needed for strict standards of ESP testing | |
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| Making a card-holder | |
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| Requirements for a test record sheet | |
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| The log-book | |
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| "Hazard level" and its meaning | |
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| Adapting the score sheet for pendulum test records | |
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| Tabor Formulation | |
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| The use of this meditation by the group, at the opening of psychic development sessions | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Definitions of psychological and psychic terms used in this book. | |
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| Record Sheets Scrying Record | |
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| Se�nce Record | |
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| Dowsing Record | |
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| Yes/No Questions Test Sheet | |
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| ESP Card Test Sheet | |
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| Log Book & Diary | |