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Authors: Konstantinos
ISBN-13: 9780738705224, ISBN-10: 0738705225
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Date Published: March 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Konstantinos

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).

Book Synopsis

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction. Why This Book?1
Part ILife After Death? Experiencing the Truth Yourself9
Chapter 1.First Steps to Making Contact11
Understanding Your Motives
The Value of Their Wisdom
The Dangers of Getting Too Close
An Evil Pursuit?
Chapter 2.Avoiding the Cold Reader23
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 Described37
Life and Death Explained
The Low Realm
The Summer Realm
More Spiritual Realms
Spirit Communication Mechanics
Part IICaught on Tape: Simple, Concrete Proof51
Chapter 4.The History of Electronic Voice Phenomena53
The Early Attempts
A Startling "Discovery"
A Breakthrough
The Future and You
Chapter 5.Before You Record65
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 Communications133
Phoning the Dead
Look, No Tape
A New Kind of Download
Part IIIDeveloping the Power Within147
Chapter 11.Mind-Power Preparations149
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 List199
Index201

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