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Whisperers

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by J H Brennan


  31. Ibid.

  32. Ibid.

  33. C. G. Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (London: Routledge, 2008).

  34. Ibid.

  35. Ibid.

  36. Ibid.

  37. Eliphas Lévi, Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual (Twickenham, UK: Senate, 1995).

  38. Ibid.

  39. Israel Regardie, The Golden Dawn (St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 1993).

  40. J. H. Brennan, Astral Doorways (London: Aquarian Press, 1972).

  41. Eliphas Lévi, The History of Magic, trans. Arthur Edward Waite (London: Rider & Son, 1922).

  42. C. J. Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (London: Routledge, 2008).

  43. Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, Highways of the Mind: The Art and History of Pathworking (Wellingborough, UK: Aquarian Press, 1987).

  44. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections.

  45. Ibid.

  46. Robert A. Charman, “Conjuring Up Philip,” Paranormal Review: The Magazine of the Society for Psychical Research, no. 48 (October 2008).

  47. Ibid.

  48. Ibid.

  49. Ibid.

  50. Sourced from conversations with participants.

  29: A SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATION

  1. Stanislav Grof, The Cosmic Game (Dublin: Newleaf, 1988).

  2. Quoted from a speech delivered by Leary in 1967.

  3. Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell (New York: Harper & Row, 1954).

  4. Grof, op. cit.

  5. Ibid.

  6. Jung was self-contradictory on this area and much of his work points directly toward the idea of the Collective Unconscious as a single entity. It seems likely that with an academic reputation to protect, he took care to hedge his bets rather than present ideas so outlandish that they were unlikely to gain acceptance.

  7. A principle of logic that states, in effect, that the simplest explanation of any phenomenon must always take precedence.

  8. Grof, op. cit.

  9. As do several recent cosmological theories.

  10. “Mark,” channeled through Jacquie Burgess, 1997, The Way of Laughing, http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/barneyhill/184/ (accessed March 5, 2012).

  11. Source: a private letter to the present author.

  CONCLUSION

  1. Fred Gettings, Ghosts in Photographs: The Extraordinary Story of Spirit Photography (New York: Harmony Books, 1978).

  2. See, for example, Lon Milo DuQuette, My Life with the Spirits (York Beach, ME: Weiser, 1999) and Joseph C. Lisiewski, Ceremonial Magic and the Power of Evocation (Tempe, AZ: New Falcon Publications, 2006).

  3. Carroll “Poke” Runyon, The Book of Solomon’s Magic: How to Invoke Angels into the Crystal and Evoke Spirits to Visible Appearance in the Dark Mirror (Silverado, CA: C.H.S. Inc, 2004).

  4. Barbara W. Lex, “Neurobiology of Ritual Trance,” in Eugene G. d’Aquili, Charles D. Laughlin Jr., and John McManus, The Spectrum of Ritual: A Biogenic Structural Analysis (New York: Columbia University Press, 1979).

  5. Ibid.

  6. Ibid.

  7. Ibid.

  8. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections.

  9. “Poltergiest—Research, Major Hypotheses, Examples, Famous Alleged Poltergeist Infestations, Poltergeists in Fiction,” Cambridge Encyclopedia, vol. 59 (accessed February 21, 2009).

  10. Norman H. Horowitz, “Roger Wolcott Sperry,” Nobel Prize Org [accessed February 26, 2009.]

  11. Ibid.

  12. Anthony Peake, The Daemon (London: Arcturus, 2008).

  13. Ibid.

  INDEX

  A True Account of the Jena Tragedy of Christmas Eve, 255

  Abd al-Mualib, 114

  Abd Allh, 114

  Abiram, 61

  Absolute Consciousness, 350

  Ab al-Qsim Muammad ibn Abd Allh ibn Abd al-Mualib ibn Hshim. See Muhammad

  Ab lib, 115

  Adam, Sigmund, 327

  Aelius Aristides, 77; Hieroi Logoi, 77

  Aesculapius. See Asclepios

  Agadir Crisis, 210

  Agrippa, Cornelius, 142, 147, 148; Occult Philosophy, 142

  Agrouchada-Parikchai, 90

  Ahnenerbe, 14

  Aiwass, 250, 251, 253

  al-Amn. See Muhammad

  al-ir, 116

  alastor, 80

  Albert, Prince, 205–6

  Algonquin Indians, 226

  Almadel, 335

  almanac, 131–33

  Almedingen, E. M., 172–73

  Altotas, 164

  Alva, Duke of, 164

  minah, 114

  Amityville Horror, 262

  Amram, 60, 62, 64

  Anael, 141

  angelos, 16, 17

  Annales Fuldenses, 323

  Anubis, 51, 52, 58, 264, 265, 269, 376

  Apollo, 77, 80, 139

  Apollonius of Tyana, 258, 260

  “appeasing the liver,” 40

  apports, 309

  Apuleius, 72; Metamorphoses, 72

  Arabian Nights, 171

  Arata of Laconia, 76

  Ark of the Covenant, 66

  Art Pauline, 334–35

  Asclepions, 74–77, 79

  Asclepios, 76, 77, 85, 106; statue of, 79; temple of, 74, 75

  Asclepius (text), 15

  Ashcroft-Nowicki, Dolores, 263–66, 358

  Ashmole, Elias, 153

  Asterius of Amasea, 73

  Astral Plane, 340–43

  Astrum Argentinum, 245–46

  Atharvaveda, 91

  Athenodorus, 67–68

  Atrahasis, 42

  Atwood, Ken, 364

  Augustine, Saint, 252

  Augustulus Romulus, 105

  Aurelius, Marcus, Meditations, 15

  automatic writing, 207, 242, 310

  “auto-start,” 353

  Ave (angel), 147

  ayahuasca, 28

  Azoth, 170

  Aztecs, and statues, 39–40

  Balsamo, Guiseppe, 163–72, 312; Letter to the French People, 168

  Ban Gu, 95

  Bander, Peter, 363

  Barberini, Maffeo. See Urban VIII (pope)

  Barbor, Mr., 222

  Barfield, Lawrence, 304

  Barret, William, 329

  Batcheldor, Kenneth J., 343–46, 370, 372; “Report on a Case of Table Levitation and Associated Phenomena,” 343

  Bathory, Stephen, 152

  Beaulme, Anne Ponsart, 131

  Bekhten, Princess of, 53–54

  Bell Witch, 331–32

  Bell, John, 332

  Bender, Hans, 327, 329, 364

  Benedict XV (pope), 129

  Bismarck, Otto von, 210

  Bithiah, 63

  Blake, William, 349

  Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna, 199, 203, 238–44, 255; Isis Unveiled, 203; Secret Doctrine, 204

  Boas, Franz, 26

  Boddington, Annie, 239

  Boedromion, 72

  Boehme, Jakob, 371

  Bogoras, Waldemar, 27

  Bohr, Niels, 356

  Bolingbroke, Roger, 223

  Bön, 101

  Bonaparte, Napoleon, 181–87

  Bond, James, 143

  Bonhomme, Macé, 133

  Boniface VIII (pope), 224–226

  Book of Changes. See I Ching

  Book of Enoch, 274

  Book of the Dead, 54

  Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin the Mage, 336

  Bormann, Martin, 11

  Bosse, Marie, 229

  Box of Delights Séance Kit, 281

  Brahmins, 90–92, 94

  Branchus of Miletus, 139–40

  Brandon, Ruth, 271

  BREAKTHROUGH (Raudive), 363

  Brookes-Smith, Colin, 344

  “Brotherhood of Adepts,” 240

  Brown, John, 204–5, 207–8

  Browning, R
obert, 272; Mr. Sludge the Medium, 272

  Brunton, Paul, 187

  Buckingham, Duke of, 222

  Budge, Wallis, 52, 55

  Bugishu people, 338

  Bulow, Bernard Furst von, 210

  Burckhardt, Carl, 14

  Burgess, Jacquie, 278

  Burgundy, Duke of, 127

  Butler, Elizabeth M., 261–62, 314–15, 333

  Butler, Walter Ernest, 263–66, 336, 337

  Butts, Robert F., Jr., 241

  Caetini, Benedict. See Boniface VIII (pope)

  Cagliostro, Alessandro di. See Balsamo, Guiseppe

  cahoiun, 24

  Calixtus III (pope), 129

  Callichoron (well), 71

  Campanella, Tommaso, 227–28

  Campo Formio, 181

  Caprivi, Leo Graf von, 210

  Captain Wynne, 269

  caput iecoris, 83

  Cardan, Jerome, 143

  de Rohan (cardinal), 166–68, 171

  Caribo, 24

  Carr, A. H. Z., 184

  cartwheel, 352

  Casanova, Giovanni Jacopo, 164

  Castel William, 156

  Castleruddery Stone Circle, 317

  Castle of Quinezonasium, 109

  Çatal Hüyük, 300

  Catherine de Medici, 133, 140

  Catherine, Saint, 126

  Cauchon, Pierre, 128

  Cavendish, Richard, 328–29

  Celestine V (pope), 224

  Cellini, Benvenuto, 253–55, 261, 262, 314–15

  cemí, 25

  Centuries and Presages (Nostradame), 133

  Chaldean Oracles, 15

  Chamberlain, Houston Stewart, 211–13, 215, 221; Gundlagen des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts (Foundations of the Nineteenth Century), 211, 212, 221

  Chambre Ardente, 228–299, 231

  Chapman, John, 157

  Charcot, Jean-Martin, 310

  Charles I, 222

  Charles II, 222, 223

  Charles IX, 141

  Charles VII, 121, 124, 127, 129

  Charles XII, 154

  Chase, P. J., 321

  Chastenet, Amand-Marie-Jacques de (Marquis de Puységur), 309–10

  Chasteuil, Francois Calaup de, 229

  Châtaigneraie, François Vivonne la, 134

  Chavigny, Jean-Aymes de, 133

  Chelpan, Chot, 231

  Chessman, Carl, 360

  chilans, 37

  Choronzon, 246

  Christopher, Milbourne, 286

  Chrysippus, 15

  Chukchee, 27

  Church of Christ, 192–93

  Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 194

  Churton, Tobias, 248

  Cicero, 84, De Divinatione, 84

  circumsessio, 159

  Clavicula Salomonis, 111–12, 255

  Clement of Alexandria, 16

  Clements, Forest E., 31

  Clement V (pope), 225

  Clement VIII (pope), 227–28

  Clinatas of Thebes, 76

  Clinton, Hillary, 232–33

  Clottes, Jean, 32

  Clowes, John, 157

  College of Augurs, 81–82, 84

  Colonnas (family), 224, 225

  Coming Race, The (Lytton), 204

  Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI), 280

  Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), 280

  Commodus (emperor), 84

  Concorde, La, 160

  Confucius, 98

  “cone of power,” 181

  Conibo, 28, 29

  Constant, Alphonse Louis. See Lévi, Eliphas

  Conway, Lady Anne, 222

  Cooke, Grace, 199, 239–40, 242, 244

  Cornell, A. D., 324, 332

  Corpus collosum, 297, 298, 371

  corvex, 84, 85

  Cosmic Void, 350

  Cotton, Abbe, 230

  Courier de L’Europe, 168

  Cowan, C., 354

  Crookes, William, 269, 272, 273, 284–85

  Crowder, T. R., 301

  Crowley, Aleister, 245–53, 262

  Curran, Pearl, 237–38, 244

  d’Estouteville, Guillaume, 129

  daemon, 371. See also demons

  Daguerre, Louis-Jacques-Mande, 185

  daimōn, 15

  daimons. See demons

  Dalai Lama, 102–3, 104

  Dalit, 90

  Danites, 193

  Dathan, 61

  Davenport, Ira and William, 281

  Davidson, Randal, 207

  Davis, Andrew Jackson, 197–99

  Davot, Father, 230

  de Baudricourt, Robert, 122, 123

  De Demonibus, 138

  De Divinatione (Cicero), 84

  de Florinville, Seigneur, 135

  De Mysteriis Egyptiorum, 137–38

  de Oviedo, Gonzalo Fernández, 25

  Decalogue. See Ten Commandments

  Dee, John, 142–53, 252

  deiknymena, 73

  Delphic Oracle, 79–80

  Demandros of Gortyn, 75

  Demeter, 68–73

  demons, 253; and Bonniface VIII, 225–26; and Cellini, 254, 314, 333; and Chamberlain, 210–13; and Crowley, Aleister, 246–48; definitions of, 14–17, 350–52, 368–69, 371; and Eliade, 31; evocation and manifestation of, 335–36; and grimoires, 110; and Grof, 350–52; and Hitler, 221; and Jena, tragedy at, 255–58; and Muhammad, 116; and Peake, Anthony, 371; and possession, 53–54, 101, 159; and Rasputin, 178; and the Church, 108, 112; and Tomás, 29

  Deshayes, Abbe, 230

  Deshayes, Catherine (“La Voisin”), 229

  Destroying Angel, 16

  Dharmasastra, 91

  “Diamond Necklace Affair,” 167–68

  Didyma, oracular temple of, 80, 139

  Diodorus, 79–80

  Dionysus, 70

  Dispersion, 248

  Disraeli, Benjamin, 204

  djinns, 114, 116, 171, 233. See also genii and demons

  d’Oberkirch (Baroness), 166

  Dodge, Silone, 197

  Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell, The (Huxley), 175, 348

  Dorje Drak-den, 102, 103

  Drake, Francis151

  dream incubation, 75–79

  Dreamland, 321

  Drepana, Battle of, 83

  dromena, 73

  Drury, William, 325

  Dubrovine, Praskovie Fedorovna, 175

  Ducos, Pierre–Roger, 184

  Dunraven, Earl of, 269

  Duplessis, 164

  Dysart, William, 208

  Eagle, Georgiana, 205

  Eblis (angel), 275

  Echedorus, 76

  Edgehill, Battle of, 319–21

  Edmonds, John Worth, 272

  Edward VI, 143

  Edward VII, 208

  Edward, Prince of Wales, 204–5

  Einstein, Albert, 355–58

  Elektra (Euripidies), 80, 83

  Eleusinian Mysteries. See Greek Mysteries

  Eleusis, 69–73

  Eliade, Mircea, 30, 31, 58

  Elizabeth, Queen, 143

  Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural (Randi), 279, 283

  Enlil (god), 49

  Enochian Calls, 246, 247

  Epidaurus, 74–76, 79

  Epistle to César, 136, 140

  epopteia, 72

  Eros, 68

  ESP, 240

  Etemenanki ziggurat, 47

  Euhippus, 76

  Euripides, 80, 83; Elektra, 80, 83

  Everett, Hugh, III, 357

  Eynan, 35–36, 38, 296–301

  Ezekiel (temple priest), 86; vision of, 86–89

  Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (Gardner), 280

  Falkenhayne, Eric von, 215

  Faraday, Michael, 364

  Featley, Daniel, 153

  Feliciani, Lorenza, 164

  Ferguson, J. B., 281

  figurines, and Aztecs, 39–40; in graves
, 38; and Old Testament, 39

  Filastre, La, 230

  Firsoff, V. A., 354–59, 373

  Flamsteed, John, 154

  Flanders Fields, 215

  Fleming, Alexander, 186

  Flint, Leslie, 208

  Flournoy, Theodore, 311–15, 337, 338, 368–70; From India to the Planet Mars, 311

  Forbes, Allen, Jr., 301

  Fortune, Dion, 342

  Foundation for Shamanic Studies, 28

  Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (Chamberlain), 211–12, 221

  Fox Sisters (Kate, Margaret, Leah), 198, 238, 271, 283–86, 332

  Francis II, 141

  François, Duke of Alençon, 140

  Frazer, James, 31

  Freud, Sigmund, 313, 343, 370

  From India to the Planet Mars (Flournoy), 311

  Fromond, Jane, 144

  Fu Xi, 94–98

  Fuller, Jean Overton, 246, 248

  Gabriel (archangel), 62, 63, 116, 117, 118, 149, 274

  Gaddi, Agnolino, 254, 314

  Gardiner, Lambert, 293; Psychology: A Study of a Search, 293

  Gardner, Martin, 280; Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, 280

  Gassner, Johann Joseph, 159

  Gauld, Alan, 160–61, 324, 332; History of Hypnotism, 160

  Gauric, Luc, 133–34

  Gebelin, Count de, 168

  Gematria, 248

  General Conference of the New Church, 157

  genii, 114, 169–171. See also demons and djinns

  George VI, 208

  Geotia, 333–34

  German Workers Party, 216

  Gerringong, 305

  Gespräche mit Hitler (“Conversations with Hitler”) ”) (Rauschning), 218

  Gessner (peasant), 255–58

  Ghost Dance, 200–1

  Glanvill, Joseph, 222, 325–26

  Gmelin, Johann Georg, 26

  Goddard, Victor, 322

  Goetia, 153

  Golden Dawn, 147, 153, 239, 245, 247, 249, 342

  Golding, Mrs., 286-87

  Goshen, 60, 61, 63

  Graham, Ian, 242–44, 358

  Grand Grimoire, 336

  Great Pyramid, 186–87, 249

  Greater Mysteries, 71, 72, 73

  Greek Mysteries, 67–89

  Gregory IX (pope), 107, 108

  “Grey Lady,” 315, 318–22

  Grimorium Verum, 335–36, 370

  Grof, Stanislav, 347–53

  Grundlagen des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts (Foundations of the Nineteenth Century) (Chamberlain), 211

  Guderian, Heinz, 14

  Guibourg, Abbe, 231

  Guidonis, Bernardus, 108

  Gummer, John Selwyn, 157

  Habiru, 60

  Hacilar, 301

  Haggard, Rider, 21

  Hale, A. P., 364

  Hales, Edward, 164

  al mah, 116

  Hall, John and Mary, 263

  Hall, Judy, 186

  Halley, Edmund, 154

  Halls of Judgment, 58

  Hammurabi, 45

  Hanussen, Erik Jan, 217–18

  Hapgood, Charles, 301–5

 

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