Born again and again - How reincarnation occurs, why & what it means to you

Foreword  by CHARLES TART • • • xiii
INTRODUCTION: SETTING THE SCENE • • • 1
What Is Channeling? → Exclusions and Inclusions Constructive Skepticism Entities, Planes, States, and Stages A Personal, Subjective Journey Selecting Examples of Contemporary Channeling

ONE - THE PERSONALITIES

1 - CHANNELING AS A MODERN PHENOMENON    27
Jane Roberts and the “Seth” Books → The Findhorn Circle → A Course in Miracles → J. Z. Knight, Kevin Ryerson, and Jach Pursel → Messages from “Michael” → From Heaven to Earth: the “Returns” Series → “Space Brothers” → Mark and Elizabeth Clare Prophet → Ken Carey, Meredith Lady Young, and Pat Rodegast → International Channels → Others An Interview with “Lazaris” → Conclusion

2 - CHANNELING AS A HISTORICAL PHENOMENON    76
Prehistoric and Primitive Roots →Ancient Egypt, China, Japan, and India → The Greeks → Other Early Cultures → The Rise of Monotheism → Jesus Christ → The Dark Ages to the Mid-Nineteenth Century → The Spiritualist Era → Entering the Twentieth Century → Four Notable Twentieth-Century Channels →The Beginning of the Modern Era

3 -WHO DOES IT?    129
Correlation with Unhappy Childhood → Seven Stages in Channeling Development →The Channel’s Lot →Portraits of Five Contemporary Channels

TWO - THE MATERIAL

4 - WHAT DO THEY SAY?    147
Two Approaches to Judging Channeled Material → Ageless Wisdom → Guidance and Personal Messages → “Proof” from Discarnate Human Spirits → Descriptions of Life in Nonphysical Realms → The Future and the Past → Subject Matter for Artistic/Creative Expression →Scientific/Technological Material, Health, and Healing

5 - WHO ARE THEY CHANNELING?    168
The Channel’s Higher Self → Gods and God The Universal Mind and the Collective Unconscious → Group Beings → Jesus Christ and Other Ascended Masters → Nonhumans: The Angelic Realm, Devas, Elementals, Plants, and Animals → Extraterrestrials → Discarnate Human Spirits

6 - HOW DO THEY DO IT?    185
Full Trance → Sleep Channeling → Dream Channeling → Light Trance → Clairaudient Channeling → Clairvoyant Channeling → Automatisms (Automatic Writing and the Ouija Board) → Open Channeling → Physical Channeling

THREE - POSSIBLE EXPLANATIONS

7 - PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS    205
Early Twentieth-Century Views → Closed Models of the Psyche → A Freudian View of Channeling → Jung and the Collective Unconscious → Silberer’s Autosymbolism and Progoff’s Dynatypes → Hypnosis, Trance, and Cognitive Psychology → Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry: Normal versus Abnormal → Parapsychology and Consciousness Research

8 - BIOLOGY AND PHYSICS    254
The Traditional View of the Brain → The Holographic Brain → The Psychobiology of Transcendence → Physics and Para-physics → Conclusions → A Concluding Metaphor

FOUR - THE POTENTIAL

9 - OPEN CHANNELING    303
Intuition and Creativity → The Creative Artist → Receiving Spiritual Experience

10 - YOUR TURN    320
Discernment → Preparing Yourself: Beliefs and Attitudes → Raising Vibrations and Cleansing Emotions → Working with Your Physical Body → Grounding → Stilling the Mind and Letting Go of the Ego → Setting Intention and Verbal Self-Programming → The Use of Mental Imagery → Attunement → Becoming an Open Channel → Some Sample Procedures → Warnings → Conclusion

CONCLUSION 340
GLOSSARY 344
NOTES 351
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 365
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