Occult Book Reviews

Being attached to a cross of wood as a death sentence, or crucifixion, was the cruelest penalty in Roman times. Being crucified involved acute pain and suffering, and the process could take days.

A person who was crucified was usually being punished for a capital crime or committing a serious offense, and it was the utmost punishment a person could receive. It is therefore important to remember the image that a cross would convey – an image of ultimate pain and suffering on earth.

Even in modern terms, crucifixion still stands out as particularly cruel. There are many current media reports of people being tortured or subject to harsh interrogation techniques, but few of these reports measure up to the pain and suffering one would go through on the cross.

Unclothed, suffering wounds from beatings, nailed to a board with arms and legs mutilated, exposed to elements and creatures, and hanging for hours or even days until your life slowly ebbed away is an image that haunts the imagination in any era or civilization. Such punishment is or should be reserved for a truly evil being, a person who has defiled and mutilated fellow humans without remorse. In other words, a person who has forfeited their place as a member of the human family.

In contrast, punishing a just person, someone who healed and guided people, someone who demonstrated love to everyone, would be the ultimate injustice carried out, and an apparent triumph of evil. The victory of the cross is easy to miss.

Yet it is not just the triumph over evil that Christians celebrate on the cross, but the great sacrifice of a loving father, our father. He who wanted to show his love for us, to forgive us for all our wrongdoings, sacrificed his innocent son so that one day we could all learn of his love and come closer to him.

The cross was also a reminder for all Romans, a very stern warning, to avoid making the same mistakes or they too would face the same punishment. Displaying the cross in public was a deterrent against future transgression or it was supposed to be at least. Instead, it turned out to be quite a motivator for all members of the church to take up their own crosses and spread the word of this injustice against God’s only son.

What Christians must commit to memory is that wearing a crucifix does not make one clean or protect that person from injury. The purpose of the crucifix is to serve as a silent reminder. It is a reminder of God’s love for all people and his greatest sacrifice. It also reminds us of the wickedness within us that, if not constrained, could go on a rampage and demolish everything beautiful in its path.

For Christians, the cross is reminder of the price of life and the limitless reach of love.

Anton Petrov is a seasoned writer centering on themes related to education, religion and Christianity. For the latest Christian news, views and events, visit http://www.FreeChristianPress.com. Visit the Uber Article Directory to get a totally unique version of this article for reprint.

It is the beginning of another 12 month cycle and I am sure you are wondering what new and exciting adventures and challenges your soul has signed up for! The good news is that you can find out using the Akashic records.

The Akashic records are the vibrational library of your soul’s journey. Not your personality, but your soul. In this library are stored all your life’s experiences, thoughts and feelings from this life time and past life times. It also holds the outline of your future. Until the last century only mystics, scholars and saints had access to the records. The most well known Akashic reader from the last century was Edgar Cayce. Because of the change in energy on the planet in the last few decades, reading your records has become easier.

Your choice to come to earth was fueled by the desire to accelerate and grow as much as possible. You chose your family group carefully to help you learn specific life lessons. Your friends, relatives and acquaintances mutually agreed to help you on your journey. You sat with your masters, teachers and loved ones to determine the plan of action and who would fit each job well. You have free will of course which gives you the chance to change anything at anytime.

When you receive a reading you have the opportunity to heal past patterns and blocks that no longer serve you. Reading the records are about hearing your soul’s truth. When you hear your truth and understand the lessons from it, you release your soul from having to learn it again and again. The vibration in your records changes immediately, creating profound healing and growth. If you’ve ever asked yourself the question, “Why do I keep repeating this?”. You’re trying to access your records and find the truth.

By understanding what your soul is up to, you have the benefit of making different choices, healing yourself and accelerating your growth in 2010. You do not have to make the same mistakes over and over again.

Learn more about Akashic readings. Stop by Mona Wind’s site where you can get a reading.

Have you ever attended a workshop, lecture, gone to a party and met someone that you felt you knew before? It’s as if you knew them your whole life and like magnets you have found each other again. I always get the feeling of deja vu. I’ve known them somewhere, somehow in another land. Sometimes I keep in touch with them and other times we’re two ships passing.
Either way, there is this feeling of deep connection and friendship.

By looking into my Akashic Records I was able to understand what was going on. The Akashic Records are the vibrational library of all the experiences you’ve had through time and space. It explains why you’ve chosen your particular challenges and what you can do to move through it. It also contains an outline of future experiences.

According to the records, our soul keeps choosing to come back in family groups. Family groups are relatives, acquaintances, lovers, teachers, friends that we have met at some other time in our evolution.

Before we come to earth we make a rough blue print of what experiences, challenges, issues we want to have and who could do the best job for us. Someone from our family group happily signs up to either support or be instigators of change. We do the same for them. The point is to push challenge, motivate us into becoming powerful beings.

When we bump into each other again the deja vu is the reminder of the times we’ve met before and what we agreed to do. Sometimes these beings stay in our life for a long time as we move through our life’s challenges. Other times, they leave when the lesson is over.

The next time you feel this deep connection, the deja vu of the soul, ask yourself what they are here to teach you. What you are trying to learn. And don’t forget to thank them for signing up to help you!

Want to find out more about Akashic Records, then visit Mona Wind’s website,www.lifeintegrity.com.

Perhaps if people are asked what kind of special power they want to have, many will probably say the ability to fly. Who doesn’t want to fly? But to some people, to fly is nothing more than imagination, wherein you can fly by thinking of happy thoughts and getting fairy dust from Tinkerbell. But believe it or not, there is an existing psychic gift that allows you to fly!

In the psychic realm, levitation is a psychic gift similar to flying. Levitation is probably one of the hardest, but the most rewarding psychic skills. Levitation refers to the act of being able to float on air, using the will power of the mind.

Long throughout history, cases of levitation have been recorded with testimonials from eye witnesses of the phenomenon. People speculate that the world we live in is governed by laws, like science. Because levitation seems to encompass the laws of science, many people do not believe in its existence. But then, there has been a number of famous names who have shown that they can levitate. Among these people are Daniel Douglas Homes, Buddha, and even Jesus himself!

So now that the nature of the psychic gift of levitation has been discussed, the question is — how can a person achieve this psychic power? Simple, we are all psychic to some degree. Therefore, we all have the potential to possess this power.

Of course, like any other psychic talents and skills, levitation can also be honed and mastered but only if you have an open mind to help you reach a higher state of consciousness and learning. The following are a few secrets to how famous individuals in history perfected levitation.

PURIFICATION OF THE BODY. Purification of the body means cleaning one’s self — having a healthy diet and lifestyle. Purifying one’s self also means resisting man’s greatest temptation — sex. This may sound strict, but levitation requires that you should avoid any form of sexual intercourse or sexual stimulation. This act is seen as a symbol of impurity. So it must be avoided since levitation needs you to be pure.

MAGNIFICATION OF THE MIND. Secondly, the mind should be empowered. Levitation requires a powerful mind in order to be achieved. You can do this through proper meditation. This is also the key to clearing your thoughts from unwholesome and unclean thoughts. Through proper meditation you will be able to achieve a feeling of lightness which in return will help you levitate.

AWAKENING THE SPIRIT. This last procedure in the art of levitation is very crucial. You must establish a very strong connection with the spirit within you. Just remember, your spirit must be strong to help you lift the body in air.

Levitation is a very remarkable psychic gift, but you cannot learn how to accomplish it overnight. It requires utmost discipline, dedication, and an open mind, combined with these three key secrets, to fully unleash the potential of your levitating power.

Tana Hoy is a natural born psychic who has dedicated his life to helping people with his gift. Tana has also been helping people nourish and develop their psychic side. Visit www.tanahoy.com for more information.

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This collection of touching and inspiring quotes excerpted from “ONE”, a book by Masami Sato, is sure to inspire you to live a simple life full of miracles and joy. The quotes in this edition include topics that are profoundly related to our lives, such as mastering life, honesty, imagination, magic, problems, and simplicity. This article is the last part in the three part series – “ONE Book Life-Changing Quotes Series”.

On mastery

“When something more effective and easy comes along, we let go of the harder way very quickly without being ‘taught’.”

“When something more effective and easy comes along, we let go of the harder way very quickly without being ‘taught’.”

“(Children) learn by playing and become the masters of the game. And they do it just by having fun.”

“(Children) learn by playing and become the masters of the game. And they do it just by having fun.”

Honesty

“When we held back our feelings and said things only to please others, often we ended up upsetting someone later.”

“There is no such thing as an unbreakable promise for the future.”

On imagination

“in our imagination, we can do anything.”

Magic of life

“Miracles are not accidents. We create them through our choices.”

On problems

“There was nothing to ‘solve’, just something to share.”

“There was nothing to ‘solve’, just something to share.”

Simplicity

“If we count all the things we love in our life, we may find the way to bring in more simplicity and joy into it”

“Maybe it’s actually all very simple. No worries-tomorrow is just another day!

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Do you ever think about who you are during the past? If this thing enters your mind then you should understand that what you are thinking has something to do with the idea of reincarnation which is associated to some cultures of different nations who think that people at present times are connected to their past life.

All people have to deal with the idea of reincarnation at one or several points in life although there are those who would disagree with the issue. However, no matter how much they deny the belief of reincarnation, they can never regret that there are surely those times when they felt a sudden gush of connection to people or events that are totally unrelated to them. This explains past life. On the other hand, those individuals such as the historians and those who think that reincarnation is real would strongly suggest the idea that our past life offers a direct influence to the present situation.

It is not really important to discern the person that we are in the past but there are individuals who find the relevance in associating both events so they can better improve their personality. They can rightly make use of the lessons during the past in order not to repeat history and people should also be strong enough to face the consequences of their actions.

We are created as unique individuals but we can’t deny the sudden rush of intense of emotions in some events that we feel that we’re associated but in reality we are completely unrelated to the subject. These events might happen to you in your past life and there’s nothing to be afraid of. If you are haunted by your dreams and you can see events in the past that you can’t explain, it’s better to undergo self-hypnosis.

Self-hypnosis will help you feel relaxed thus the entry of thoughts flows easily. This exercise can help you have access with your past life. You will feel deeply relaxed as you go over with your memory and slowly explore past life regression. This will give you a better idea about your past life and will make a person understand what he needs to work on with his present life and the future.

Memories in the past might rush in your thoughts causing you to feel intense emotions. However, you need to handle everything smoothly and think of it that you are traveling back in time. You must take the privilege and act on it accordingly. If you think you set a bad example in the past then it’s time that you straighten and change that image into a good one.

It takes a brave heart to travel way back to your past life and conquer your fear in whatever your past life might reveal. Remember that you are living a different life now and it’s your turn to make everything right. If ever self-hypnosis allows you to unveil your past life, make sure to learn something from it or everything will be useless.

Don’t pressure yourself if you can’t make it to your part life. Stay relaxed and have a thought whether you’re reincarnated or not, you still have to live your life and take the right path. It’s always better to live a different from your past life but make sure that you’re living each day accordingly.

It is important that you approach the subject of reincarnation and past life belief with an open mind. Although the majority people in the West are conditioned from birth to believe that this life is ‘all you get’, there is increasing evidence to show that this is not the case.

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There has always been a lot of curiosity about a psychic reading. What do you think is the reason why people are so drawn to the concept of a psychic reading? Is it really true that it can reveal everything?

Let us try to understand what psychic reading is first. Psychic reading by definition, is a method to know about the past, present, and the future. This is done by a psychic through extrasensory means. Sometimes, there are tools that used in a psychic reading — like tarots, crystal balls, and tea leaves. There are also some psychic readers who do not use any tool at all, they simply can read a person by seeing auras and the energies surrounding them. However, even though psychic reading is indeed popular, we cannot deny the fact that there are some people who doubt its powers. To rule out any doubt, let us give light to the 5 common questions about a psychic reading:

CAN A PSYCHIC READING LET ME COMMUNICATE WITH THE OTHER SIDE?

Once in a blue moon, a very gifted individual emerges that posses talents beyond that of a regular psychic. This special individual is commonly referred to as a psychic medium, and they posses many psychic gifts — such as being able to see into the future and most of all, the ability to communicate with the spirits of those who have passed on. In fact, they can even find out the insights of these spirits on you past, present, and future endeavors.

CAN A PSYCHIC READING FIND ME MY TRUE LOVE OR SOUL MATE?

Psychics have the gift to see what we fail to see, and the future is not an exemption. Because they are able to see what is to come, they can also see what is to come in your love life.

CAN A PSYCHIC READING GUIDE ME WITH MY CAREER?

Psychics have the ability to see through every person’s strengths and weaknesses. A psychic can help you identify your own strengths and weaknesses that you haven’t discovered yet. This allows you to maximize your potential. A psychic will also be able to tell you what is to come for your career. By this, you can prepare better for the challenges and opportunities that are to come.

CAN A PSYCHIC READING HELP ME WITH FAMILY LIFE?

Psychics can know people through their readings. They know what has happened in the past, and what will happen in the future. For this reason, a reading by a psychic is always beneficial to a family. This is because each member of the family will understand one another better, and they can learn from their mistakes, and not to mention, they can prepare better for what is to come.

CAN A PSYCHIC READING GUARANTEE BETTER HEALTH AND WELLNESS?

It is admitted that psychics are not physicians. But still, a psychic can see what is to come in the future, and not to mention, they can read the energies that surround you. This talent allows them to speak about a person’s wellness and health, and they can help you prepare if a storm is ahead.

Of course, there are many other questions that people have about a psychic reading. The argument here though is not that if they believe in its existence, or not. The main reason why people have so many questions about readings done by psychics is that they are very much curious to try it too, but they are hesitant because they do not know much about the wonders of the psychic realm.

Tana Hoy has been giving people psychic readings all of his life. He can help you find the answers that you need Visit his website, www.tanahoy.com, and get to know more about Tana Hoy.

Are you a superstitious person? One who always throws salt over their shoulder, or won’t step on a crack? Well you most likely know all about those 2012 doomsday prophecies already than. But are they real, is something going to happen when December 21, 2012 comes around? Or is it all some hype people have made up?

But when you ask some people, they say there is nothing stated in any of that history to point to this type of prophecy. There was a lot of Mayan information uncovered, but by far it’s not understood fully. Most likely it will never completely be understood either.

However, with most theories that are so impacting on life, it can be built up. Made to seem worse by people who add on to the tales and place it for everyone to see. Yes it’s freedom of speech and all that, but programs do seem to add to the theories of what may happen. And they are very popular; they started back in 2006 with the History Channel.

Such ideas as storms that would hit the world with devastating force, anything from volcanoes, earthquakes, and even solar flares. Possibly the mention of the magnetic poles of the Earth switching positions even.

Since the history isn’t really clear on how Mayan’s lived and all that, well this prophecy may just be conjecture. Something that was made up by a historian for a symbol or number they weren’t positive what it stood for.

Seeing as how those people who are present day Maya really hold nothing in significance to the year. They don’t really use the long count calendar anymore either. Perhaps it was something that was even created or thought up by someone who discovered part of the Mayan past.

No matter how you view it, in the long run you need to think about this. The end of 1999 when everyone thought computers would stop working. Did they?

Are you prepared for doomsday in 2012? Find out all the end of the world predictions and what to do to prepare. A doomsday that is foretold in the Mayan calendar and Chinese oracles, all pointing to one date, a date foretold as the end of the world. Don’t start praying until you read this new report, 2012 Predictions.