Doors to Other Worlds: A Practical Guide to Communicating with Spirits a Practical Guide to Communicating with Spirits

From Witchcraft to Black magic Buckland dishes it all up for the curious mind. Just look in his other books like "Complete guide to witchcraft" and "Candle lighting rituals". But this one mainly deals with Spirit communication with other topics included like Lavitation, Automatic Writing and Human chackra activation. (Awakening the sleeping serpent as Buckland terms it.) I would describe it as a very good read after reading alot of other Authors books on Spiritualism which are poor. This one is practical and straight forward. A great book to own that mysterious cover with thoses spooky doors draws me in, lol.

A good little book for those interested in spirit communication, espiritismo, spiritualism, etc. Buckland presents theory and practical information. Much better than Ted Andrew's book on Spirit Guides. Recommended.

I had read the reviews and somehow thought this was the book for me. No indeed. This book lost me once it got past the history of the Spiritualism movement. I tend not to be a skeptic in matters of the paranormal, particularly involving life after death, but seriously, this book did not really provide any useful insight or information into communications, like the title implies.

There is something wonderfully American about LlewellynPublications. All their books that I have seen so far have this maniccrackpot optimism, and the unshakable conviction that psychic powers are as easy to come by as a knack for macrame. Psychic exploration, in their view, is no more hazardous than woodburning, which of course can be painful until you learn which end of the iron to grab.In practice things haven't proven quite so simple, for me at least. I turned on the TV, put a pen in my hand and a pad of paper under the pen, then turned aside and began watching *Frasier* in the hope that my hand would begin writing automatically. That would be serously cool; receive insights from Dead Guys and watch TV at the same time!Sigh. Once the closing "Tossed Salad and Scrambled Eggs" theme ran its course, I looked down to find that my hand had twitched a couple of times, doubtless when I was laughing, but otherwise hadn't budged. Heck, I had done everything *exactly* as Ray had advised in Chapter XIII--and come up completely empty.All of you Fifteenth Order Magicians, Wiccan priestesses, professional channelers and other enlightened folks are probably peeing your pants by now, at the naivete of this silly middle-aged white boy who dared to think he could just sit down jack green in the rumpus room and *do* this stuff.But that's the impression one gets from many Llewellyn books, most pointedly including this one. Buckland begins by presenting a survey history of Spiritualism, from the Fox sisters up through Seth, Mrs. Piper, and the New Age channelers of the present day. This takes up the first fifty pages of the book, and while well-written, was nothing I hadn't seen a dozen times before. The beef of the book begins on page 51, with an intriguing chapter on preparing for mediumship. A lot of this is simply convincing yourself that it is possible, by repeating any of several affirmations to that effect: "My natural psychic abilities are opening up and flowing," or (my favorite) "Every day, in every way, my mediumship develops and progresses." (I'm sure I was demonstrating my own unworthiness when I couldn't stop picturing the Cowardly Lion wringing his tail and chanting, "I do believe in spooks. I do I do I do I do I do I do believe in spooks...")Ok, ok, so I'm being snotty. I understand the psychology involved here, and until you do indeed believe in spooks (and talking to them) right down to the subconscious level, the spooks will be nowhere to be found. I had the same problem with calculus, and still have it with ballroom dancing. Much of the machinery by which mediumship happens lies in the subconscious. Until you convince the subconscious that something can in fact happen, you might as well just put the pen down and watch Frasier.With that out of the way, the book continues in machine-gun fashion through the matters of meditation, symbolism, psychometry, clairvoyance, clairaudience, scrying, table tipping, levitation, ouija boards, aut

This is a great book ... Ray really did a great job at this one, i just couldnt put it down. Very Very good book.