Mediumship Essays

Haunted Rooms of Battery Carriage House Charleston has a haunted house that is teeming with entities. The Battery Carriage Inn is a place where you can stay overnight and wake up to a ghost sitting beside you. As unbelievable as it sounds, many people have vouched for the existence of entities and strange happenings. In fact, it has been mentioned in many lists of haunted places and visitors and investigators have endless strange and chilling stories to share. Today, the main mansion is a private

Know the world better Through all these times, humans are always looking for the right way of knowing the world. Different societies tried different ways. Some of them are objective while others are subjective. For instance, Enlightenment and Romanticism have each made their society extremely objective and subjective, which neither made a good influence. In the circumstances of the destructiveness of both Enlightenment and Romanticism Worldview as they reach to the extremes, a balanced

Throughout history, art has been created by the material most easily available to the artists. Spanning the globe, certain marbles, pigments, and clays define cultural artifacts. However, within the traditional western world, art transformed into a strict vocation and a hierarchy of materials such as oil paint and marble became the pinnacle substances of genius. As a rebuttal against the institutional canon began in the mid-19th century, artists have combined various materials in order to articulate

Extra-sensory perception is experienced predominantly through cognitive thinking and "feelings." It is considered to have a "virtually unlimited range." There are multiple types of extra-sensory perception. These different types include telepathy, mediumship, clairvoyance, precognition, retrocognition, psychometry, and telekinesis (Harris 1). Telepathy can be defined as "the ability to read another person's thoughts" (Harris 2). Telepathy works by sending messages to another person's subconscious. A

What is life after death? Since the beginning of time, many people have wondered what happens after death. I chose to read and provide a synopsis of the chapter “Life After Death” by William L. Rowe. There are four main parts discussed in the chapter: the varieties of immortality, the meaningfulness of immortality, the case for immortality, and the case against immortality. By the end of this synopsis, I will explain a better understanding of whether or not we can believe there is life after

In the introduction to Kendall Phillips’ book, “Projected Fears,” he discusses “horror films that made such an impression on American culture that they became instantly recognizable and, indeed, redefined the notion of what a horror film is.” (Phillips 3). This list of movies includes many favorites, such as Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Scream. Phillips later states his thesis, “...my argument in this book is that these [movies] are the most ‘successful’ and ‘influential’ in American

The Candomblé is a cult or religion of African origin that was taken to Brazil by the slaves. Some historians indicate that slaves from countries currently known as Nigeria and Republic of Benin brought this religion to the country. The Candomblé followers worship the deities, who are gods or African deities representing the forces of nature, the Orishas. The Candomblé designation is most popular in the state of Bahia, in Brazil, where the African culture is stronger than in other states. The rituals

Metaphysics relates to two traditionally contrasted. Mysticism refers to experiences of unity with the ultimate, interpreted as the God who we love. Occultism, refer to the extension of knowing the thing like (psychokinesis, telepathy, precognition, mediumship, clairvoyance, and retrocognition.) 8. Metaphysics has many subdivisions like ontology, they ask questions that involve with existence: What is Being? What is real? What exists? What are things made of (properties and substances)? Cosmology, which

Many of us have thought about life after death. What happens to us after we die? Where do we go? What happens to our body? Do we go to heaven? Do we go to hell? Does our spirit live on? Does our soul find a different person? Many questions can arise from the thought of immortality. For those who believe in life after death, those beliefs may differ greatly. William Rowe’s article Life After Death focuses on the various beliefs of immortality and the problems with those beliefs. In researching

These phenomena range from astral projection, apparitions, clinical or near-death experiences, to mediumship/channeling. One of these I want to cover in some detail, this would be astral projection. Scientifically, that's not considered proof, it's an oddity, something that can't be explained. Even so, astral projection works with the scientific method

Houdini’s career started with the Needle Trick and the Challenge Act. His Needle Trick consisted of Houdini swallowing needles and thread and bringing them back up, all threaded. The Challenge Act was Houdini’s fame-making trick. He would put on a pair of handcuffs and he would be able to get out of them, without using a key. These two magic tricks helped form Houdini into the magician he turned into today. Houdini’s career became well known for his great escapes. His greatest trick, the Chinese

Zafer Çavdar DR. LENKER ACWR 101 – 11 / Spring 2015 Essay B: Analytical Synthesis – Second (Conference) Draft Analytical Synthesis of Enemies of Reason by Richard Dawkins and Carl Sagan’s article A British biologist Richard Dawkins has presented a documentary film, Enemies of Reason, in 2007 to disprove that pseudoscientific practices have reliable logic as well as science has. The documentary’s first part includes Dawkins’s investigations which aim to find out whether these practices have any scientific

Mentalism is a term that refers to those branches of study which concentrate on mental perception and thought processes of an individual like cognitive psychology. This is in opposition to disciplines that believe that study of psychology should focus on the structure of causal relationships and conditioned responses, through scientific methods and experimentation. Throughout the history of psychology, mentalism and behaviorism clashed, with one another representing the dominant pattern of psychological

tutelage of a man named Cornwall, Gardner learned the magical practices of the Malayan people, which further influenced him when he returned to England in 1927 to take care of his ailing father. While there, he looked further into spiritualism and mediumship, being read by several mediums and attending multiple