Rosemary Ellen Guiley is a leading expert on the paranormal, dedicating herself full-time to research, investigation, and writing since 1983. Her extensive fieldwork involves exploring haunted, mysterious, and sacred places, leading to numerous unexplained experiences. She translates these insights and encounters into compelling narratives, offering readers a fascinating glimpse into the unexplained. Much of her work involves exploring the intriguing and often eerie byways of the paranormal world.
The black mirror serves as a revered tool for divination, enabling users to connect with the dead, access the angelic realm, and glimpse into the past and future. This ancient practice of mirror gazing, or scrying, is distinguished by its ability to penetrate the veil between worlds, offering insights and visions that other reflective surfaces cannot. Its unique properties make it a powerful instrument for those seeking deeper understanding and spiritual connection.
Long the stuff of legend, witches and witchcraft have been associated with every variety of evil and mischief. This encyclopedia aims to dispel such notions, with a comprehensive guide to witchcraft throughout history and around the world.
Throughout history, people have sought ways to contact the dead and spirits. Such experiences challenge beliefs and often set people on a path of deeper exploration, looking for validation—and ways to have controlled, direct contact. Do spirit communication devices really work? What are the prospects of someday being able to pick up a cell phone or sit in front of a webcam and talk to the Other Side? While proof of contact is still elusive, there is an abundance of tantalizing evidence and experience to inspire people. For the past century, inventors have been inspired by the spirits themselves to create telephone, video, radio, and computers to attempt real-time, two-way communication with the dead and other entities. Talking to the Dead explores the colorful history and personalities behind spirit communications, weaving together spirituality, metaphysics, science, and technology. It examines the idea that new technology can connect to the ancient and universal wisdom of the "music of the spheres"; that contact with the spirit realms can be made through the vibrations of sound.
Brief entries and illustrations introduce topics including individually named demons from a variety of cultures, historical figures, films, and cases of possession.
This study of the chequered history of witchcraft and witches - both black and white - contains more than 500 essays which examine the arts, practices and people associated with witchcraft over the ages.
