Author: John Davis Sweet
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Funeral sermons
Languages : en
Pages : 38

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Author: Running fox
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 147978866X
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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ABOUT THIS BOOK Never before published: 24 ghostly stories, 20 poetic-puzzles. Explore the realness of reality and consciousness. Our only tools: Science/Religion. Explore Time-elasticity. Pass up Einstein to land in New-Age physics-world. A meaningful, tho simple, “DOT” arrives who represents the “STRING” of String Theory... the smallest “real” thing. Ghost-world thus merges with quantum mechanics as a valid fork of science. We get our “real” answers from nearby Spirit-World Helpers, next. Doctors may note these ideas-as-presented help validate their suspicious about life/death/ghost-like bodies. Is recommended reading after a midnight barbecue! -Enjoy!

Author: Neil Rollinson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781872764252
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 10

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Author: Marc Hartzman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780986239380
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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During the height of Spiritualism mediums were busy delivering a cornucopia of messages from the dead, including many from some of world's greatest luminaries. Hear all about the afterlife straight from William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, and other spirits living it up in death in this most unusual collection of writing.

Author: Erik R. Seeman
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812251539
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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In late medieval Catholicism, mourners employed an array of practices to maintain connection with the deceased—most crucially, the belief in purgatory, a middle place between heaven and hell where souls could be helped by the actions of the living. In the early sixteenth century, the Reformation abolished purgatory, as its leaders did not want attention to the dead diminishing people's devotion to God. But while the Reformation was supposed to end communication between the living and dead, it turns out the result was in fact more complicated than historians have realized. In the three centuries after the Reformation, Protestants imagined continuing relationships with the dead, and the desire for these relations came to form an important—and since neglected—aspect of Protestant belief and practice. In Speaking with the Dead in Early America, historian Erik R. Seeman undertakes a 300-year history of Protestant communication with the dead. Seeman chronicles the story of Protestants' relationships with the deceased from Elizabethan England to puritan New England and then on through the American Enlightenment into the middle of the nineteenth century with the explosion of interest in Spiritualism. He brings together a wide range of sources to uncover the beliefs and practices of both ordinary people, especially women, and religious leaders. This prodigious research reveals how sermons, elegies, and epitaphs portrayed the dead as speaking or being spoken to, how ghost stories and Gothic fiction depicted a permeable boundary between this world and the next, and how parlor songs and funeral hymns encouraged singers to imagine communication with the dead. Speaking with the Dead in Early America thus boldly reinterprets Protestantism as a religion in which the dead played a central role.

Author: Rodger Ghost Sims
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1524508489
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 406

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Between being possessed by an angry spirit and being accused of a brutal murder, Joey Stillman is in a fight for his life. He has no memory of the attack, but he remembers the bloody aftermath vividly. Since being arrested, he struggles with rage that seems to flow from his dreams and the patience and control required dealing with his trial. Help, for what it is worth, is on the way in the unlikely form of two elderly menone carrying a scrapbook and the other carrying an old brown backpack. Its time to let the dead speak.

Author: Sciens (pseud.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Parapsychology
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Author: Pieters Jurgen Pieters
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474471617
Category : Literature and history
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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This book deals with the special power of literary texts to put us in contact with the past. A large number of authors, coming from different ages, have described this power in terms of 'the conversation with the dead': when we read these texts, we somehow find ourselves conducting a special kind of dialogue with dead authors. The book covers a number of texts and authors that make use of this metaphor - Petrarch, Machiavelli, Sidney, Flaubert, Michelet, Barthes. In connecting these texts and authors in novel ways, Jurgen Pieters tackles the all-important question of why we remain fascinated with literature in general and with the specific texts that to us are still its backbone. Siituated in the aftermath of New Historicism, the book challenges the idea that literary history as a reading practice stems from a desire to 'speak with the dead'.Key Features* Offers a broad survey (a combination of classical literature, Renaissance literature and modern theory and history)* Issues a plea for the importance of reading literary texts and the power of literature* Discusses key figues from the Western canon - Homer, Virgil, Dante, Machiavelli - in light of the idea that we can learn from the past by talking to 'the dead'* Combines theoretical discussions of the relationsip between literature and history with close reading of works by major literary authors and historians.

Author: Neil Rollinson
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448138868
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 63

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Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Poetry Prize Like Neil Rollinson’s earlier books, Talking Dead is a refreshment of the senses: lifting the lid on the human condition in a heartfelt celebration of the act of being, whether in moments of love or mortality, sex or feasting. In the central sequence of the book – a meditation on the space between life and death – the dead speak of their final earthly moments with a liberating sense of fascination, and a luminous awe. Elsewhere we enjoy al fresco sex, astronomy via many pints in the Cat and Fiddle, and the deliverance of an Indian monsoon after weeks of thirst and drought. In ‘Christmas in Andalucia’ two lovers Skype each other achingly across hundreds of miles – ‘I am full of loss and longing,’ the poet says, ‘the heart is hewn from elm and oak and mistletoe.’ As provocative, sensual and subversive as ever, these poems seek and find the numinous in the everyday: some element of ritual or wonder that transforms experience. Although the spectre of darkness is never far away, it is the spirit of pleasure that endures, and we discover to our delight, as D. H. Lawrence did, that the Dionysian finally prevails over the Apollonian.

Author: Emilee Hines
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 076276760X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 235

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Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Washington, D.C., history features 15 short biographies of notorious badguys, perpetrators of mischief, visionary if misunderstood thinkers, and other colorful anti-heroes from the history of the nation's capital.