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"From the rise of American Spiritualism to the age of artificial intelligence, humanity has repeatedly turned to technology in its effort to answer one enduring question: Does consciousness survive death?
Historian Stephen Dietrich-Kolokouris traces more than 150 years of American attempts to investigate ghosts, spirits, mediumship, and communication with the dead. Beginning with the Fox sisters and the birth of Spiritualism, the book examines séance culture, spirit photography, psychical research, Electronic Voice Phenomena, psychedelic encounters, modern mediumship, paranormal television, and new technologies designed to detect what may exist beyond ordinary perception.
The American Paranormal approaches extraordinary claims without demanding either belief or dismissal. It documents fraud, exploitation, psychological bias, sincere testimony, unexplained experiences, and evidence that...>>
"The Principles of the Science of Letters (Kitab Usul Ilm al-Huruf wa-Dawabit al-Awfaq) is the first complete English translation of this foundational treatise on the science of letters, attributed to the renowned thirteenth-century scholar Ahmad ibn Ali al-Buni. This work, drawn from the celebrated Forty Maghribi Books, presents al-Buni's systematic exposition of occult letter science, combining celestial astronomy, letter magic, and spiritual operations into a unified esoteric framework.
The treatise is organized into four parts. The first addresses the science of astronomy, covering the lunar mansions, zodiacal signs, planetary spheres, and their spiritual correspondences. The second, and most extensive, treats the science of letters in nine detailed chapters encompassing the origin of letters, their natures...>>
"The first complete English translation of Majmu'at Thalath Rasa'il (Collection of Three Treatises), a compilation of three mystical works copied together in succession by the same scribe. This volume brings together texts spanning the golden age of Arabic Sufi literature, each addressing a distinct dimension of the spiritual path: practical etiquette, contemplative commentary, and the metaphysics of the Arabic letters.
The first treatise, Kitab fi al-Tariqah (The Book of the Path), is attributed to the celebrated Sufi master Abu al-Hasan al-Shadhili (d. 1258). Organized into sixty numbered gates, it guides the practitioner through the stations of the spiritual journey: repentance, seeking forgiveness, remembrance, intimate converse with the Divine, reliance, humility, love, gnosis, and the ultimate...>>
