I have an uncle who is a minister, and part of his job involves working funerals laying spirits to rest and giving solace to the living. He is also called to visit hospitals to attend to the sick offering blessings and healing prayers. I have a lot of respect for the work he does. I feel it's a necessary vital role in any community, and yet I always felt it was too limiting to work from within a single paradigm. I prefer the freedom of shifting beliefs, as this allows you to work with virtually anyone's spiritual overview without compromising your own or imposing on theirs. As Chaos Magician Peter Carroll once said, "Belief itself is only a tool for achieving effects; it is not an end in itself."
This also brings me to an important fact, which is so obvious I hesitate to even mention it. If you have an issue with talking to the dead, you can simply reframe everything in this book to whatever your heart desires and/or artistic vision imagines. Mind Readers communicating with anthropomorphic submodalities, tapping into the Spiritus Mundi, or connecting a nature lover with the Genus Loci of their favorite park. Labeling and interacting with non-physical reality within performance offers so many potentials your imagination, or anothers borrowed, is very much the limit.
This work is so specialised into the emerging genre of Psycho-Spiritual Mentalism I don't wish to go into specifics of the various pieces it contains. Reviewing one of Jeromes books I can't ever seem to find a place to put the awesome trick ratings, though he deserves a gold star Smile . I trust I shared enough of what I absorbed that those who can work this material find it and give it a good home.
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