Atlas of Sacred and Spiritual Sites Discover Places of Mystical Power from Around the World

by Douglas, David

• ISBN13: 9781841813288
• ISBN10: 1841813281
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-08-01
• Publisher: Godsfield

Summary

This beautifully illustrated guide explores the connections between people, faith, and landscape and features plans, reconstructions, and stunning photography of little-known holy sites. Beginning with the magnificent cathedrals, mosques, and temples of the world's great religions and concluding with earthworks, and holy mountains, wells, and rivers, it traces the wisdom these spots embody and explores the ways in which we gain spiritual insights from them today. The examination of sites of pilgrimage, sacred stones, and places of isolation and meditationfrom the Chapel of the Nativity of Christ in Jerusalem to Mount Tai Shan, the most revered of China's five sacred mountainsmake this an essential reference work for anyone fascinated by ancient traditions and religions.

Author Biography

David Douglas is a full-time writer with a special interest in psychology, spirituality and the environment. He has written screenplays, scripts and plays.

Table of Contents

What is your sixth sense? Awakening to your psychic ability, inner knowing and 'gut instincts', precognition, intuition, telepathy, clairaudience, clairvoyance and clairsentience, psychometry, remote viewing

Understanding your subconscious mind: The levels of consciousness, exploring brain states through meditation, trance, self-hypnosis, lucid dreaming, tracing labyrinths and mandalas

Working with people: Exercises to develop your ability to communicate psychically with others, meditation, tarot reading, face and aura reading

Working with matter: Practising skills in gaining impressions of people and places from objects, moving objects with the power of thought, creating thought forms

Working with time: Developing your divination skills, dreamwork, lucid dreaming, scrying

Working with other dimensions and your higher self: Developing skills in seeing beyond physical barriers to other dimensions, the Kabbalah, self-hypnosis, meditation

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