Review – Tranceformers: Shamans of the 21st Century (Trade Paperback)

Dr. John Jay Harper’s Tranceformers: Shamans of the 21st Century presents an engaging survey of wisdom teachings from around the world and questions many underlying assumptions that inform 21st century culture.
Tranceformers also includes diverse parapsychological reports from NDEs, premonitions, astral travel, UFO encounters to different types of loving bliss. And it notes the alleged [...]

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Review – Myth: A Very Short Introduction (Trade Paperback)

Title: Myth: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Robert A. Segal
Media: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Oxford (163 pp. with endnotes and index)
Date: 2004
Myth: A Very Short Introduction should be useful for those interested in the anthropological, philosophical and theological aspects of myth.
The layout is well organized. Eight chapters deal with different aspects of myth (e.g. [...]

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Review – The Trickster and the Paranormal (Hardcover Book)

Title: The Trickster and the Paranormal
Author: George P. Hansen
Media: Hardcover Book
Publisher: Xlibris (564 pp. with endnotes and index)
Date: 2001
George P. Hansen’s The Trickster and the Paranormal offers a variety of paranormal considerations around the psychological, anthropological and literary image of the trickster. Hansen’s exposition of Max Weber and Claude Lévi-Strauss is competent while reflections on [...]

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Review – Images and Symbols by Mircea Eliade

This is the last of a long line of books by the celebrated Romanian scholar, Mircea Eliade, that have found their way into my library.
I’ve been familiar with Images and Symbols for quite some time, having browsed its pages at libraries and first run bookstores before finding an inexpensive secondhand copy.
For years I found the [...]

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Review – Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal

Title: Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal
Author: Roderick Main
Format: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press (177 pp. with index)
Date: 1997
Book reviews usually deal with new publications whereas Dr. Roderick Main’s Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal has been available for over a decade.
But considering this book’s unusual subject matter it might be appropriate that we’re looking [...]

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Review: Journey Through the World of Spirit

Title: Journey Through the World of Spirit / God, Gaia and Guardian Angels
Author: David L. Oakford
Media: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Reality Press
Date: 2007
I had a choice… spend hours trying to get something representative down in writing or have some fun doing a video review. I chose to do a video review.
This is my first video review and [...]

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