Mysticism comes in many guises. Only a taster is provided here. As for the unseen world of ESP, faith healing, clairvoyance, out-of-body experiences, even ghosts, and the rest! True, it is passing strange that ‘so many’ people see it? If there is nothing to be seen, how come? Is it a collective delusion? It is often said that the trouble with so-called ‘civilised’ man is that he has lost touch with the truth of Nature that indigenous or ‘primitive’ peoples know. The moment however a Maori talks of ‘Dreamland’ or a South American Shaman says that one jungle plant out of tens of thousands enables one to commune with a guardian spirit, Western Man tends to switch off. What would Mark Zuckerberg have to say about THAT! Thousands of positive read-outs about their efficacy may be on record but there is not one shred of proof that M’Lud in his court can accept as definite forensic evidence or a geometrician conclude Quod erat demonstrandum (That which was to be demonstrated). As for the animal world, what does a cat in an Old Age Home know when it goes to sleep at the door of any patient about to die! Or how does a dog instinctively know an exact if unscheduled time its master will come home? Old Curiosity tales for Old Wives’s firesides, the whole blinking lot, every last one of them, are they? Basta! As Dr Lynda Shaw, among others, remarks: ‘The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence?!’
Eminent people like Conan Doyle took seriously a possible communication with the Departed; yet so sane and logical in other respects the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Was he completely bonkers in this one regard?
The eminent journalist and author with a distinguished war record, Dennis Bardens, delved painstakingly into the possibilities of precognition in ‘Ahead of Time‘. His was a common sense research into many documented accounts – from people ranging from Abraham Lincoln to toddlers foretelling their deaths to parents.
‘Here are reviews penned for this institute of two of Dennis Bardens’ books:
Review of AHEAD OF TIME
Review of GHOSTS AND HAUNTINGS
Several are the reported instances of people recovering from illness after being treated with Faith Healing; Harry Edwards being but one among many notables in this sphere; are all the reports twaddle or to be palmed off as the placebo effect? The work of the psychic and faith healer, Allon Bacon, seems to show that it takes a goodly dose of the most hidebound prejudice to deny there is anything at all that exists in the unseen world.
Raymond Moody in ‘Life after Life’ considers the question raised in his title.
Further examples of testimony about an afterlife, and what might be involved, can be found at GAIA and the ‘HUMANITYS TEAM’
Here is a sample of Tessa Lynne’s thinking to be found at thoughts on the afterlife
Beáta Alföldi is an international retreat leader, medicine woman, workshop facilitator, author, shamanic practitioner, sound healer, ceremonial leader, seer and keynote speaker.
What of all the talk about reincarnation? A recent example has been of a young Scots boy who seems to have ‘memories’ of someone else. How is this possible?
What of near-death experiences or arguably after-death experiences? There have been innumerable accounts from before the time of The Tibetan Book of the Dead. One example is the record made by Patrice Van Aersel who has delved into many case histories.
If nothing else, it is the sheer volume of the accounts about psychic experiences, renewed generation after generation, should give the sceptics pause for thought. Can they ALL just be a form of delusion, individual and collective? Serious minded people in their droves contribute to the material available in the Society for Psychic Research. In ‘A Geography of Ghosts: the spectral landscapes of Mary Butts‘, there is a tour d’horizon of such phenomena. What of the preoccupations of the late best-selling authoress, Hilary Mandel, who writes of ‘invisible presences and the echoes of strangers’ voices . . . morbid visions, like visitations, premonitions of dissolution.’ and who sees ‘the ghost of my stepfather coming down’ the staircase and other things that ‘aren’t there.’
It is likely that many visitors to this institute have heard stories in their personal circles that have not featured in records or been written up or have been part of a survey about these unexplained goings on. There are innumerable stories of this nature, It gives rise to speculation about a possible, very strange world that is not easily accessible to our normal senses.
Here you can read accounts by some very grounded people:
- RANNHEID SHARMA writes about dreams she has had about her past lives
- TOLLECK WINNER is on video about his previsioning of a near-fatal car crash
- https://instituteofreflection.com/video/stewarts-dream/RICARDO SANTOS is on video about an identical dream experienced by three generations of his family which none of them, till the final dream, has confided in one another
- STEWART MOSS talks about a ghost he has seen
The millennia over which astronomers worked on the movements in the heavens and which enabled them to build monuments with cosmic exactness such as the Pyramids; were they all so wrong about the significance of what their astrologers divined in the heavens?
Do the sceptics deserve a dose of their own medicine?
The hope of certainty in this world may be the real will-o’-the-wisp statement that ‘There is nothing in the Afterlife; this world is all we have!’ can be countered by ‘How do you know?’
Maybe the sceptics are right.
It is a brave or a myopic man who can be 100% certain of that….
Or of anything.
Please note that books or websites etc suggested are not an espousal of all their contents. Selection centres on whether there are relevant points of interest
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