Did you know that crystal gazing may have originated with the druids?
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Psychics can perform spiritual guidance through various different mediums, including palm reading, card reading, crystal gazing, and tea leaf reading.
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He authored works on crystal gazing and telepathy.J, T. H. (1905). Reviewed Works: Thought Transference by Northcote W. Thomas; Crystal Gazing by Northcote W. Thomas. Man 5: 172-173.
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His book on crystal gazing was criticized by anthropologist Edward Clodd as non-scientific.Clodd, Edward. (1905). Reviewed Work: Crystal- Gazing: Its History and Practice, with a Discussion of the Evidence for Telepathic Scrying by Northcote W. Thomas. Folklore 16 (4): 479-480.
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"Morton Prince". Biographical Dictionary of Parapsychology. Retrieved 28 July 2016. He was one of the first researchers to make a scientific study of crystal gazing.
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Furthermore, practitioners and authors coin terminology so arbitrarily, and often artificially, that no one system of nomenclature can be taken as authoritative and definitive. Commonly terms in use are Latinisations or Hellenisations of descriptions of the media or activities. Examples of names coined for crystal gazing include 'crystallomancy', 'spheromancy', and 'catoptromancy'. As an example of the looseness of such terms, catoptromancy should refer more specifically to scrying by use of mirrors or other reflective objects rather than by crystal gazing.
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The term crystal gazing denotes several different forms of a variety of objects, and there are several schools of thought as to the sources of the visions seen in the crystal gazing trance. Crystal gazing may be used by practitioners--sometimes called "readers" or "seers"--for a variety of purposes, including to predict distant or future events, to give character analyses, to tell fortunes, or to help a client make choices about current situations and problems. With respect to the tool or object used to induce the crystal-gazer's trance, this can be achieved with any shiny object, including a crystalline gemstone or a convex mirror-- but in common practice, a crystal ball is most often used. The size of ball preferred varies greatly among those who practice crystallomancy.
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Most authors suggest that the work of crystal gazing should be undertaken in a dimly-lit and quiet room, so as to foster visions and more easily allow the onset of a trance state. Some practitioners claim that crystal gazing engenders visionary experiences and preternatural and/or supernatural insight, while other practitioners and researchers assert that the visions arise from the subconscious mind of the crystal gazer. Some authors note that the two positions are not mutually incompatible, and that the possibility of showing the gazer's subconscious mind does not preclude the possibility of seeing the future or other supernatural insight.
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A family evening situation with quarreling daughters and sons, about using the bathroom before their respective dates and evening programs, opens the movie. Two daughters and two sons. The younger son Willi being 17. Mary having allures of high society and psychic fortunetelling and crystal gazing.
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The case went in favour of Mr Garnett-Orme. The District Judge > (WD. Burkitt) turned down Miss Mountstephen's application on grounds of > 'fraud and undue influence in connection with spiritualism and crystal > gazing'. She went in appeal to the Allahabad High Court, but the Lower > Court's decision was upheld.
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Crystal gazing has been an active topic of research. Organisations like the Society for Psychical Research has published research on the topic. While there is no doubt that many people see visions in crystal balls, there is no scientific evidence to suggest that visions have any clairvoyant content.De Camp, Lyon Sprague. (1980).
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These works treat themes related to the mental world, occultism, divination, psychic reality, and mankind's nature. They constitute a basis for what Atkinson called "New Psychology" or "New Thought". Titles include Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World, and Practical Psychomancy and Crystal Gazing: A Course of Lessons on the Psychic Phenomena of Distant Sensing, Clairvoyance, Psychometry, Crystal Gazing, etc. Although most of the Atkinson titles were published by Atkinson's own Advanced Thought Publishing Company in Chicago, with English distribution by L. N. Fowler of London, England, at least a few of his books in the "New Psychology" series were published by Elizabeth Towne in Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts, and offered for sale in her New Thought magazine The Nautilus.
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For Riddles of the Sphinx (1977), Wollen and Mulvey obtained a BFI Production Board grant, which enabled them to work with greater technical resources, rewriting the Oedipal myth from a female standpoint. The deliberately ahistorical AMY! (1980), commemorating Amy Johnson's solo flight from Britain to Australia, synthesises themes previously covered by Wollen and Mulvey. In Crystal Gazing (1982) formal experimentation is muted and narrative concerns emphasised.
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Mulvey was prominent as an avant-garde filmmaker in the 1970s and 1980s. With Peter Wollen, her husband, she co-wrote and co-directed Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons (1974), Riddles of the Sphinx (1977 – perhaps their most influential film), AMY! (1980), Crystal Gazing (1982), Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti (1982), and The Bad Sister (1982). Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons was the first of Mulvey and Wollen's films.
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One of the main themes of the film is that women "struggling towards achievement in the public sphere" must transition between the male and female worlds. Crystal Gazing exemplified more spontaneous filmmaking than their past films. Many of the elements of the film were decided once production began. The film was well received but lacked a "feminist underpinning" that had been the core of many of their past films.
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Crystal ball Crystal-gazing (also known as crystal-seeing, crystallism, crystallomancy, gastromancy, and spheromancy) is a method for seeing visions achieved through trance induction by means of gazing at a crystal. Traditionally it has been seen as a form of divination or scrying, with visions of the future, something divine etc., though research into the content of crystal-visions suggest the visions are related to the expectations and thoughts of the seer.
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128-133 The psychologists Leonard Zusne, Warren H. Jones in their book Anomalistic Psychology: A Study of Magical Thinking (1989) have written: The psychologist Millais Culpin wrote that crystal gazing allows a form of self-hypnosis with fantasies and memories from the unconscious of the subject appearing as visions in the crystal.Culpin, Millais. (1920). Spiritualism and the New Psychology: An Explanation of Spiritualist Phenomena and Beliefs in Terms of Modern Knowledge. Edward Arnold, London. pp.
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In addition to being a writer, Margaret Lumley Brown was a psychic, who began with the art of crystal gazing, but with practice was able to hone her abilities, and was eventually granted the title of Arch-Pythoness of the Society of the Inner Light, as well as being known as a Cosmic Medium. She first joined the Society of the Inner Light between 1943–1934, and remained a member until her death in 1975.
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With Edward Beals, which may have been another pseudonym, Atkinson wrote the so-called "Personal Power Books"—a group of 12 titles on humanity's internal powers and how to use them. Titles include Faith Power: Your Inspirational Forces and Regenerative Power or Vital Rejuvenation. Due to the lack of information on Edward Beals, many believe this is also a pseudonym. With his fellow Chicago resident L. W. de Laurence he wrote Psychomancy and Crystal Gazing.
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Crystal Gazing Luck Amazing is the third and final studio album by The Compulsive Gamblers. The album was released June 20, 2000 by Sympathy for the Record Industry. The album's lineup consisted of Gamblers mainstays Greg Cartwright and Jack Yarber on guitar and vocals. The Compulsive Gamblers began recording the album following their first European tour, which saw the addition of bassist Jeff Meier and keyboardist Brendan Lee Spengler to the Compulsive Gamblers' formerly three-piece outfit.
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After the breakup of the Oblivians, Cartwright and Yarber reformed the Compulsive Gamblers, this time as a three-piece with Rod Thomas back on drums. With this lineup they released the album Bluff City in 1999. Bassist Jeff Meier and keyboardist Brendan Lee Spengler were added to the lineup following a European tour, and in this incarnation the band released the studio album Crystal Gazing Luck Amazing and the live album Live & Deadly: Memphis-Chicago, their final release before again disbanding.
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He judged the Garnett-Orme murder case, regarding the murder by strychnine of spiritualist Frances Garnett-Orme at the Savoy Hotel (Mussoorie) in Mussoorie, India. The case caused a local sensation: > When the trial came up at Allahabad in March 1912, it caused a sensation. > Murder by remote-control was something new in the annals of crime. But after > hearing many days of evidence about the ladies' way of life, about crystal- > gazing and premonitions of death, the court found Miss Mountstephen > innocent.
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He also served as British Consul and Port Medical Officer in Canton (Guangzhou). He studied occultism and yoga and travelled in India, China and Tibet. In his book The Invisible Influence (1933), he claimed that during his travels he was levitated over a chasm in Tibet, together with his porters and luggage. The book was structured as a conversation between Cannon and a series of mystics, yogis, and other sages, and includes anecdotes of crystal gazing, levitation, hypnotism, distant-touching, and other supposed phenomena.
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Margaret joined the Society for Psychical Research in February 1889, and became an interested and active member. She wrote about her own experiments on a number of subjects, including thought-transference, crystal-gazing and later more famous articles on automatic writing. She became a member of the Council in, and also acted as a proof reader for the Proceedings of the Society on their Committee of Reference from 1904, reviewing all papers submitted for publication. Her first experiments with thought-transference were completed in collaboration with her four year old daughter Helen, and submitted anonymously to the journal in March 1889.
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It is as > follows :- > In the .Garnett-Orme will case, which came to an end to-day, Mr. Burkitt, > district judge of Saharanpur, dismisses Miss Mount-Stephens' application for > probate of Miss Garnett-Orme's will on the ground of fraud and undue > influence in connection with Spiritualism and crystal-gazing. The judgment > gives probate to deceased's relatives, who opposed the application. The > action was a sequel to the trial of Miss Mount-Stephens before the High > Court at Allahabad last March on a charge of poisoning Miss Garnett-Orme > with prussic acid, which resul~d in the acquittal of the accused.
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In 1911, a Miss Frances Garnett-Orme, a 49-year-old spiritualist, came to stay with her companion from Lucknow, Miss Eva Mountstephen, also a spiritualist who specialised in seances and crystal-gazing. One morning after Miss Mountstephen had returned to Lucknow, Miss Frances was found mysteriously dead, an autopsy revealed that she had been poisoned with prussic acid, a cyanide-based poison. The murder was never solved and her doctor was also found dead a few months later, of strychnine poisoning. Miss Mounstephen was later arrested for allegedly tampering with her friend's bottle of sodium bicarbonate by adding prussic acid to it, though the court found her not guilty.
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From about 1819, Smith regularly practiced scrying, a form of divination in which a "seer" looked into a seer stone to receive supernatural knowledge."When Joseph Smith first began to use his seer or "peep" stone he employed the folklore familiar to rural America. The details of his rituals and incantations are unimportant because they were commonplace, and Joseph gave up money-digging when he was twenty-one for a profession far more exciting." Smith usually practiced crystal gazing by putting a stone at the bottom of a white stovepipe hat, putting his face over the hat to block the light, then divining information from the stone.
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Evidence > showed that Miss Garnett-Orme had been initiated into crystal-gazing and > that she had believed in her approaching death, for which she had made > elaborate preparations. The post-mortem examination also showed that death > was due to poisoning by prussic acid. The defence was that deceased > committed suicide owing to grief at the death of her fiancl.. At the trial > the judge remarked that the true circumstances of Miss Garnett-Orme's death > would probably never be discovered. > We wonder if any ·readers of ' LIGHT' in India can supply us with fuller > particulars of this case, especially of the alleged spiritualistic part of > it.
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Hull claimed to be — and is generally credited as — the inventor of the Svengali deck of cards, which he patented in 1909. He claimed to have invented more than 500 magical effects and he was a prolific writer, with 52 published books to his name, including Sealed Mysteries and Sleights, The Encyclopedia of Stage Illusions, Sealed Mysteries, and How to Answer Questions for Crystal Gazing and Mind Reading Acts. He wrote on a wide variety of magical subjects, including card tricks, mentalism, escapes, razor blade swallowing, sightless vision, billiard ball manipulation, silk magic, second sight acts, publicity, and showmanship. Hull not only produced many titles about magical effects, he also performed and taught magic for more than 80 years.
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Compulsive Gamblers I: (1991–1993, first three singles and "Gambling Days Are Over") Jack Yarber: guitar, vocals Greg Cartwright: guitar, vocals Bushrod Thomas: drums Fields Trimble: bass Greg Easterly: violin Compulsive Gamblers II: (after The Oblivians broke up, 1998, Bluff City LP/CD)''' Jack Yarber: guitar, vocals Greg Cartwright: guitar, vocals Bushrod Thomas: drums Compulsive Gamblers III: (Spring 1999 US Tour) Jack Yarber: guitar, vocals Greg Cartwright: guitar, vocals Jeff Meier: bass Bushrod Thomas: drums Compulsive Gamblers IV: (After the Spring 1999 US Tour, "Crystal Gazing, Luck Amazing" LP/CD) Jack Yarber: guitar, vocals Greg Cartwright: guitar, vocals Jeff Meier: bass Brenden Lee Spengler: organ Dale Beavers: guitar Other former Members: Greg Roberson (also former member of Reigning Sound) played on the "Live & Deadly" LP (Sympathy).
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Depersonalization is a symptom of anxiety disorders, such as panic disorder. It can also accompany sleep deprivation (often occurring when suffering from jet lag), migraine, epilepsy (especially temporal lobe epilepsy, complex-partial seizure, both as part of the aura and during the seizure), obsessive-compulsive disorder, severe stress or trauma, anxiety, the use of recreational drugs especially cannabis, hallucinogens, ketamine, and MDMA, certain types of meditation, deep hypnosis, extended mirror or crystal gazing, sensory deprivation, and mild-to-moderate head injury with little or loss of consciousness (less likely if unconscious for more than 30 mins). Interoceptive exposure is a non-pharmacological method that can be used to induce depersonalization. In the general population, transient depersonalization/derealization are common, having a lifetime prevalence between 26-74%.
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Some gazers use a "palm ball" of a few inches in diameter that is held in the hand; others prefer a larger ball mounted on a stand. The stereotypical image of a gypsy woman wearing a headscarf and telling fortunes for her clients by means of a very large crystal ball is widely depicted in the media and can be found in hundreds of popular books, advertising pages, and films of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. The pervasiveness of this image may have led to the increased use of fairly large crystal balls by those who can afford them. Books of instruction in the art of crystal gazing often suggest that the ball used should be perfectly spherical (that is, without a flat bottom) and should be supported in a wooden or metal stand.
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For the visit on September 22, 1825, Smith may have attempted to bring his treasure-hunting associate Samuel T. Lawrence.; (saying Lawrence was a seer and had been to the hill and knew what was there); (identifying Samuel T. Lawrence as a practitioner of crystal gazing). Smith said that he visited the hill "at the end of each year" for four years after the first visit in 1823,. but there is no record of him being in the vicinity of Palmyra between January 1826 and January 1827, when he returned to New York from Pennsylvania with his new wife.. In January 1827, Smith visited the hill and then told his parents that the angel had severely chastised him for not being "engaged enough in the work of the Lord,".
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Along these lines, much has been made about Paul Foster Case's being a Freemason, and that The Kybalion's publisher, the Yogi Publication Society, gave its address as "Masonic Temple, Chicago IL" on the book's frontispiece. However, Chicago's "Masonic Temple" was also the city's first skyscraper, housing dozens of stores and small businesses without any Masonic affiliations, and named for the Masonic Lodge which financed much of its construction and met in its top few floors. Other names speculatively mentioned as co-authors of The Kybalion include Harriet Case (Paul Foster Case's wife at the time), Mabel Collins (a prominent Theosophical writer), Claude Bragdon (an architect, Theosophist, and writer on "mystic geometry"), and Claude Alexander (a well- known stage magician, mentalist, proponent of crystal gazing, and New Thought author). Ann Davies, who succeeded Case as head of the B.O.T.A., is often mentioned as a possible Kybalion contributor, but she was born in 1912—four years after the book's first publication.
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