Sensing Spirit

With his down-to-earth, friendly manner celebrity psychic medium Mitchell Coombes provides the reader with an intriguing and illuminating entrée into the world of Spirit. Have you ever experienced an uncanny coincidence? Do you wonder about your Spirit Guide? Have you been trying to get in contact with a loved one? Do you need help deciphering signals from Spirit? Since his childhood Mitchell Coombes has been able to see dead people, except he called them 'green people' and considered his gift a normal part of life. In Sensing Spirithe shows how everybody else can make their own psychic abilities part of their everyday lives too. Mitchell shares the funny and heart-warming stories of his life as a psychic medium and reveals the ways that spirits may try and connect with their living loved ones. Most importantly he shows us how to hear, know or see when a spirit is trying to make contact. Sensing Spiritincludes many incredible real-life stories - like Maxine who witnessed her daughter Bella sitting up in bed hugging the air right before Maxine received a phone call to say her mother had just died. Before she had a chance to tell Bella the news, Bella asked her if Grandma was going on a holiday because she'd just come and given Bella a hug goodbye. Or like Judy who had a terrifying dream her husband had an accident with a black Mazda and rang to warn him. Her husband laughed it off, until he nearly crashed into a broken-down black Mazda moments later. Mitchell explains how to understand these signs from Spirit as well as discussing psychic phenomena like mysterious orbs, apparitions, electrical disturbances and how to achieve protection from psychic vampires. The book contains the answers to frequently asked psychic questions: 'Can Spirits tell us winning lottery numbers?' 'Do pets have sixth sense?' and 'Do spirits watch us all the time?' He also includes a helpful guide to what to expect when meeting a psychic medium and explores the tools of the trade - crystal balls, tarot cards, psychometry. Learn how to recognise the signs when your loved ones are trying to contact you.

Drawing on the work of Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor, this book examines how secular culture affects both the living of Christian discipleship today and impacts how religious congregations engage in their own renewal and future. It argues that religious communities can do more than improve and fix the out of date conditions they met in the renewal after Vatican II. Calling on environmental, sociological and theological insights, this book asks how the ongoing “coming of the Kingdom” in the Spirit brings new gifts for these times and how congregations might respond beyond restorative or post-Christian solutions to new challenges confronting them. This book offers a renewed meaning of religious life in secular life and the gift it offers and receives from every culture in which it is embedded.

Based on ethnographic research, this book examines the paranormal investigation subculture in the US. Presenting interviews with investigators as well as extensive field observations, it explores their reasons for getting involved, their use of different investigative methods, the interpretive processes by which they individually and collectively ‘sense’ spirits, the ways in which these processes are influenced by small group power dynamics, and what paranormal investigation ultimately means to those who participate. While focusing on the practices by which investigators ‘sense’ spirits in small groups, the author also situates paranormal investigation within a broader cultural context and attends to how investigators attempt to legitimize their practice despite being marginalized by both science and religion. A fascinating study of ghosts as an inherently social phenomenon, Sensing Spirits will appeal to sociologists with interests in ethnography, interactionism, cultural studies and subcultures.

In the First Feminist: Constructive Theology of the Spirit, Prichard uses the five senses to explore the Bible, historical theology, medieval mystics, contemporary experience, and more as ways to speak metaphorically of God's Spirit. This poetic book combines theology with hymns, scripture, poetry, and the reflections of such mystics as Julian of Norwich and Hildegard of Bingen to talk about and to evoke a sense of the Spirit's presence.

The telephone rings. You rush to answer it. The person you have been thinking about says, ‘Hello.’ For some inexplicable reason, you feel compelled to take the long way home from work. Only later you discover a tragic accident would have blocked your usual route home. Someone you haven’t seen in years comes to mind. A few days later, you bump into him or her. Everyone is naturally psychic. Perhaps you regularly solve problems in your dreams—or experience ‘ah-ha’ moments out-of-the blue. Maybe your ‘inner voice’ guides the decisions you make. Or are you someone who just knows something without knowing why you know it? Perhaps you can recall a time when you had a hunch and trusted it because it felt right. Have sensations like ‘butterflies’ in your stomach—or the hairs standing up on the back of your neck—ever alerted you to danger? Maybe you’ve glimpsed the future, heard a voice from Beyond, or acted upon an impulse that has saved your life. Every day people from all walks of life sense the unspoken, read between the lines and experience events that defy logic. Subtle or dramatic, these are all hallmarks of natural psychic ability. In this book , Mitchell Coombes will share with you remarkable real-life stories about extraordinary moments of psychic awakening by everyday people. Astonished parents talk about the amazing psychic gifts of their young children. Pet lovers recall heartbreaking moments when saying goodbye to a much loved pet—only to sense their welcomed return from the spirit world days, months, or even years later. These and many more heartfelt, surprising and profound psychic moments will give you the keys to open the doors for your very own psychic journey…

Across academic circles over the last few decades, the interest and inquiry on spirituality continues to broaden. Currently, the school system in the United States and many Western countries put their focus on academic achievement at the expense of preparing their students’ inner cores for skills they will need to deal with a more complex and challenging world to come. Supporting Children and Youth Through Spiritual Education provides a platform for researchers and experts in the field of spirituality in children and youth to voice the urgent need for an educational system that truly nurtures the whole child. The book also considers the need to remove the misunderstandings about the terms “spirituality” and “religion” among those who work directly with children and youth. Covering key topics such as religion, cognitive development, and spiritual needs, this reference work is critical for principals, administrators, industry professionals, researchers, scholars, practitioners, academicians, instructors, and students.

Spirit is all around us. We just have to think of the loved ones we have lost and they are with us . . . Isn’t it comforting to know that they are okay, and that one day you will see them again? Although it might be hard to accept that someone dear to you is no longer with you in the way they once were, you can take comfort knowing they are still very much a part of your life. In Surrounded by Spirit, Kelvin Cruickshank shows how the bond with people we have loved and lost is not broken — it just takes a different form. Kelvin’s seventh book shares more incredible stories of spirit passing on messages to the loved ones they have left behind. While you may not be able to connect with spirit in the same way as Kelvin, if the loved ones you have lost are with you in your thoughts and your heart, you are never alone.

Open yourself to help and guidance from the other side with easy exercises in two minutes (or less!) to meet and communicate with your ancestral guides. Discover how easy it is to ignite your intuition and connect with the other side! Answers from the Ancestral Realms will reveal the command words, visual images, and symbols that make ancestral communication fast and effortless. You'll realize that your ancestors are here with you, and you’ll open to their help and guidance every day. Meet ancestors far beyond your family and the "landcestors" from the cultures and geographical regions of your earliest roots. The word ancestor means "those who have gone before," so you can connect with spirits from the groups, organizations, activities, and projects in which you are engaged, such as authors, musicians, Freemasons, nurses, and so many more. You'll learn how to perceive their presence and receive their messages so clearly that their assistance will be available to you anytime, anywhere, and in every endeavor of your life—your work, relationships, ancestral healing, creative projects, and even psychic development. So, get ready to meet all your different ancestors. . . . They're already right next to you, and they're waiting for your call!