Here he points out that practitioners such as William Baldwin, Edith Fiore, Alan Sanderson, and Shakuntale Modi initiated the modern tradition of spirit release therapy. This is a tradition based on ancient practices. However, in modern times, it exists on the fringes of the psychotherapy field. Spirit release therapy can be conducted remotely. It entails [...]

Here he suggests that there exists an immune system for the human psyche that serves to protect us from invading thought forms and spiritual entities. This system is traditionally identified by spiritists as the “perispirit” and by Theosophists as the “etheric body”. It can be enhanced through the use of visualization and mental imagery. A [...]

Here he focuses on the research, largely in the nineteenth century, of the Society for Psychical Research. Frederic Myers great work, Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death, was published in 1903 – two years after his death. In 2003, the British Psychological Association celebrated the 100th anniversary of its publication. Among other interests, [...]

Here notes that, while there are many negative connotations to the term spirit possession, there are also positive examples. He describes his encounter with an ostensible spirit who identified itself as Lao Tsu. He also presents an example of a negative encounter. He notes that it can be extremely difficult to distinguish between an autonomous [...]