Authors: Konstantinos
ISBN-13: 9780738705224, ISBN-10: 0738705225
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Date Published: March 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Konstantinos is a recognized expert on occult, new age, and paranormal topics. He has a bachelor's degree in journalism and technical writing from New York Polytechnic Institute. He is a published author of articles and short fiction which have been featured in numerous publications including Popular Electronics, The Spook, and FATE Magazine. Konstantinos is a popular lecturer on the paranormal at colleges and bookstores in the New York City area and he has appeared on CNBC's After Hours and The Ricki Lake Show.
A Dark Neopagan, Konstantinos has been researching the occult and practicing magick for over fifteen years. Born and raised in Long Island, New York, Konstantinos now devotes his time to writing, singing Gothic rock music, and exploring nocturnal life in New York City and around the country.
Konstantinos is also the author of Vampires: The Occult Truth, Summoning Spirits: The Art of Magical Evocation, Speak with the Dead: 7 Methods for Spirit Communication, Gothic Grimoire, Nocturnal Witchcraft, Nocturnicon: Calling Dark Forces and Powers, and the forthcoming Werewolves: The Occult Truth (September 2010).
Modern technology has given us powerful new tools for an age-old dream: seeing and speaking with the dead. Using things you probably already own - such as a camcorder, computer, or tape recorder - you can contact departed loved ones or other spirits, record their images and voices, and establish two-way communications between the worlds. Speak with the Dead also details the more traditional methods of seance, trance, and scrying. You don't have to be a "techie" or an occultist to use any of these techniques. This book will guide you to one of the most awe-inspiring experiences you'll ever have - making contact with deceased loved ones and other souls.
Speak with the Dead is the first book in the modern marketplace to focus on practical, usable techniques for communicating with spirits. This book shows you seven methods for spirit contact:
•catching Electronic Voice Phenomena on tape
•using radio noise to provide spirits with a voice
•capturing ghostly images on videotape
•letting spirits use your computer or telephone
•scrying, establishing telepathic contact with the dead, and holding a seance Speak with them. They're waiting.
Introduction. Why This Book? | 1 | |
Part I | Life After Death? Experiencing the Truth Yourself | 9 |
Chapter 1. | First Steps to Making Contact | 11 |
Understanding Your Motives | ||
The Value of Their Wisdom | ||
The Dangers of Getting Too Close | ||
An Evil Pursuit? | ||
Chapter 2. | Avoiding the Cold Reader | 23 |
Magicians and Mentalists | ||
Pumping for Knowledge | ||
Easy Outs | ||
Telling Them What They Want to Hear | ||
If It's Real, Why Pretend? | ||
Chapter 3. | What You'll Hear: The Afterlife Described | 37 |
Life and Death Explained | ||
The Low Realm | ||
The Summer Realm | ||
More Spiritual Realms | ||
Spirit Communication Mechanics | ||
Part II | Caught on Tape: Simple, Concrete Proof | 51 |
Chapter 4. | The History of Electronic Voice Phenomena | 53 |
The Early Attempts | ||
A Startling "Discovery" | ||
A Breakthrough | ||
The Future and You | ||
Chapter 5. | Before You Record | 65 |
Mindset | ||
Surroundings | ||
The Classes of Voices | ||
Chapter 6. | Microphone Recording (Method One) | 77 |
Why Begin Here? | ||
My First EVP | ||
What You'll Need | ||
Method One | ||
Playback Techniques | ||
Chapter 7. | Broadcast Static Recording (Method Two) | 89 |
Carrier Waves | ||
The Static Controversy | ||
What You'll Need | ||
Method Two | ||
Playback Techniques | ||
Chapter 8. | White Noise Recording (Method Three) | 103 |
Electronic or Natural? | ||
Source Location and Relevance | ||
What You'll Need | ||
Method Three | ||
Playback Techniques | ||
Chapter 9. | Video of the Dead (Method Four) | 117 |
Feedback-Loop Doorways | ||
What You'll Need | ||
Method Four | ||
Playback Techniques | ||
The Digital Fix | ||
Audio and Beyond | ||
Chapter 10. | Advanced Communications | 133 |
Phoning the Dead | ||
Look, No Tape | ||
A New Kind of Download | ||
Part III | Developing the Power Within | 147 |
Chapter 11. | Mind-Power Preparations | 149 |
The Seance Mindset | ||
Ritualistic Preparations | ||
The Ancient Rite | ||
Chapter 12. | Scrying (Method Five) | 157 |
Scrying Past and Present | ||
Which Tool? | ||
Practice and Training | ||
Method Five | ||
Chapter 13. | Direct Mind Contact (Method Six) | 171 |
Thoughtforms--Powerful Beacons | ||
Method Six | ||
Waiting for an Answer | ||
Chapter 14. | Seance Made Simple (Method Seven) | 183 |
Group Focus Agents | ||
Who Can? | ||
Getting Ready to Channel | ||
Method Seven | ||
Final Thoughts | ||
Suggested Reading List | 199 | |
Index | 201 |