The Mystic Sciences By Marget Waite Proudly Brought To You By TOC The Mystic Sciences By Marget Waite Contents: Book Cover (Front) (Back) Scan / Edit Notes Introduction 1 - Akashic Records 2 - Apparitions 3 - Astral Projection 4 - Astrology 5 - Auras 6 - Automatic Writing 7 - Billet Reading 8 - Bi-location 9 - Clairaudience 10 - Clairvoyance 11 - Consciousness 12 - Controls 13 - Deja Vu 14 - Discarnates 15 - Doppelganger 16 - Ectoplasm 17 - Exorcism 18 - Fakirs 19 - Ghosts 20 - Healing 21 - Hypnosis 22 - Incubus 23 - Levitation 24 - Mediums 25 - Necromancy 26 - Poltergeist 27 - Possession 28 - Precognition 29 - Psychic Photography 30 - Psychokinesis 31 - Psychometry 32 - Querant 33 - Radiesthesia 34 - Reincarnation 35 - Retrocognition 36 - Seance 37 - Space Warp 38 - Stigmata 39 - Telepathy 40 - Teleportation 41 - Veridical 42 - Vardeger 43 - Witchcraft 44 - Xenoglossis 45 - Yoga Scan / Edit Notes Format: v1.5 (PDF - no security) Genera: Occult Extra's: Pictures Included Copyright: 1971 Scanned: September - 22 - 2002 Introduction One of the major inconsistencies of the modern age, with all its unparalled miracles of modern science, is that we have not caught up with our machines. We have been to the moon. We have gained more factual information about our own world and its environment in the past twenty - five years than has been accumulated in all the previous history of man, from the time he first emerged from the cave ... Yet we have not even penetrated the periphery of that ever-fascinating, ever, elusive enigma ... the human mind. Our scientists know how the miracles they have created work-but they don't know what they are, or how they got here, or how they relate to us in the total scheme of life. Students of the paranormal believe that, with the dawn of the Age of Aquarius, mankind will devote his intellectual skills to solve these imponderables. His interest in material things, which came to a brilliant climax in the ending Piscean Age, will transcend into the realms of the spiritual. Already there are signs of this mystic transition in the general mood of the public, reflected by its institutions. There has been a great proliferation of interest in the occult. Astrology, long a "back street science," has become big business. Hundreds of thousands of people buy computerized personal horoscopes through major department stores at $20 apiece. Astrological publications account for a healthy percentage of newsstand sales, and the peripheral products are fantastic in their diversity. There are zodiac sweat shirts, stationery, zodiac tapes and records, zodiac games, even zodiac foods. Almost every consumer product has been, is being, or will be slanted to the wisdom of the stars! Occult book stores are springing up like mushrooms, and thriving. Many of them have sidelines of interesting, though questionable repute - herbs and oils to go into magic spells, mystic incense, Tarot cards, crystal gazing bowls - everything conceivable to aid man in transcending the limits of his five conventional senses. In the most prestigious area, universities all over the world are underwriting to a greater or lesser degree, the investigation of psychic phenomena. Dr. J.B. Rhine and his wife Louisa pioneered in the academic field with their noteworthy experiments in ESP while they were professors at Duke University, and continued later at their Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man. Students have done graduate work in ESP at Yale, Harvard, and Columbia. St. Joseph's College, a Roman Catholic institution in Philadelphia, maintains a department of Parapsychology, and doctorate degrees have been granted for psychical research at Duke, Yale, London, Cambridge, Oxford and at the University of Utrecht in Holland. The latter institution recently established a Chair of Parapsychology. Very active research is going on today in the Soviet Union, although they have permitted little of this activity to leak out to the world outside the Iron Curtain. Leningrad University maintains a laboratory of Physiological Cybernetics, headed by Dr. P.I. Gulyaev, and it is believed they are conducting amazing experiments in developing methods by which their astronauts may communicate telepathically. Nearly all of the major scientists of our times, including Einstein, Dr. Carl Jung, and the late William James, eminent professor of psychology at Harvard university, have been ardent believers in the undeveloped, unknown powers of the human mind and have conducted some very persuasive experiments over the years. In the belief that the general-public is now ready to embark, along with these masterminds, into the dark, fascinating realm of the Occult Unknown, the following study has been prepared in convenient alphabetical order to acquaint people with the basic spheres of Extra Sensory Perception and the astonishing feats that have been investigated and documented in each of them. 1 - Akashic Records Akasha is a Sanscrit word referring in a large, general way to the nature of the universe. Literally translated, it means space, ether, sky, which the Hindu tradition conceives to encompass the entire make-up of existence. According to Hindu philosophic thought, these records, like a sensitive photographic plate, contain not only a complete account of every event that has happened, every physical object that has been created, every thought or idea that has been projected since the beginning of the manifest universe... but also a complete compendium of all these elements that will occur in the future. The Akashic Records relate to the Universe in the same way that the Subconscious Mind relates to the individual; it is a complete computerized memory bank of all the myriad complexities that go to make up the Whole of existence. It is fitting that a work entitled The Mystic Sciences should be launched with a discussion of the Akashic Records, because within these records lie the whole concept of psychic phenomena and paranormal activity. It is generally believed that the Akashic Records are the source of information gained by paranormal means by trance mediums, crystal gazers, readers of Tarot cards, tea leaves, palms. In some way, through deep concentration, they are able to penetrate the veil of awareness on the conscious level, and delve into divine secrets recorded in the Book of Life but withheld from all men excepting those with the highest degree of sensitivity. Not only does it account for precognition, the ability to probe into the future, but also that strange but uncommon phenomenon known as "retrocognition" in which events of the past have suddenly and unexpectedly intruded on the awareness of people living in the present in an extraordinarily vivid manner. Phantom ships, slave convoys, and particularly disasters of all sorts which carried a strong emotional impact have been re-created; and in some cases rare but fully documented cases have brought with them in the recreating, veridical information not previously known by historians. A story, classic in the lore of the paranormal, details the adventures of two Victorian ladies, schoolteachers of impeccable reputation, who, on a routine tourist visit to Versailles and the Petit Trianon, encountered Marie Antoinette and her retinue just as they were about to be seized by the French revolutionaries. Their descriptions of the layout of the gardens and the outbuildings were unknown by Versailles historians at the time. They were later verified by painstaking search and scrutiny of obscure records of Louis XVI's court, including wages he paid to gardeners and carpenters for specific projects. The Akashic Records may be the repository for all the information gleaned by psychometrists, those remarkable mystics who are able to receive emanations from inanimate objects. They explain how a Joan Grant could obtain information about artifacts dug up in the Egyptian excavations unknown by the archaeologists but later, after extensive study and research, proven correct. Law enforcement officials who have been baffled by the ability of a gifted psychometrist to sometimes solve a crime when all else has failed by physical contact with some object pertaining to that crime, might find their explanation in the Akashic Records. Emotional emanations leave their telltale stamp, just as fingerprints do, and the day may come, up there in the future, when criminologists will search the vastness of the Akashic skies for their answers, just as they search F.B.I, records today. It is difficult at this stage for lay people to grasp and accept the basic concept of Akasha. For to accept it, one must be able to envision an entirely new conception of the time/space continuum, a concept understood vaguely by Einstein, but so complex that even he was unable to pass it on to his students. To believe in Akasha we must accept the belief that time and space do not exist in the material sense in which we know them. The past, the present and the future are one, and we are as travelers, passing progessively one guide post after another, encountering, as we go, events, episodes, thoughts, and reactions which were always there all the time... simply waiting for us. 2 - Apparitions Apparitions have been seen and reported upon throughout all the ages of mankind, in every land in every culture, sophisticated as well as primitive. They have been detailed by scripture writers of Biblical times and by the black obiah men of Haiti, by archbishops and arch-criminals, by saints and rogues, scholars and witch doctors, clergymen and clowns. Their very universality attests to their reality. It is fairly safe to say that no one travels through life very far without sooner or later encountering someone who has had either direct or indirect experience or knowledge of an apparition. A very clear distinction must be made between an apparition and a ghost. A ghost appears recurrently at a scene he inhabited during his lifetime. He seems to lack any sort of intelligence or motive, but merely re-enacts a traumatic experience that happened while his body was incarnate.