An otherworldly examination of the unknown that will keep fright fans reading all night From any strange experience that can't be defined by science to psychic phenomena to monsters and weird creatures, The Complete Idiot's Guide® to the Paranormal focuses on the most interesting and bone-chilling aspects of the paranormal the supernatural including: • Ghosts and spirits • Angels, demons, and spellcasters • Unexplained phenomena

A unique guide to the world of the paranormal, The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Ghosts and Hauntings is a perennial favorite. Now updated, revised, and expanded with new information on ghost hunting and observing, this new edition includes new tips on gathering and recording paranormal data, and a new section devoted to "faking it" - showing readers how to haunt their own houses to amuse and bewilder friends. - Expanded appendixes featuring new Internet sites devoted to the paranormal, as well as modern-day "haunted houses" open to the public - Additional information on the origin of spiritualism and its followers - Strong seller for Halloween season - Completely reorganized for easier reading and referencing

Everyone is pyschic. And that includes you! We all have an inner voice that tells us important things we have no other way of knowing. A select few have learned how to tune in to that voice. You can use your natural intuition and its wisdom to avoid disaster, heal bodies and minds, and make contact with other minds and spirits. Lynn A. Robinson, M.Ed., will give you the exercises needed to hone your inner voice. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Psychic Intuition, Third Edition uses a hands-on approach to psychic development for beginners, taking you from a basic introduction of various psychic abilities to using your own psychic powers to solve your own problems. Also learn how to perform psychic readings for others. Topics covered include: • Discovering what psychic intuition is and what a psychic can tell someone about themselves. • Assessing your current psychic abilities. • Trusting your instincts and developing psychic awareness. • Learning about the mind-body connection and how to use psychic power to heal yourself and others. • Hypnosis, visions, dreams, and telepathy: exploring what can be learned from altered states of consciousness. • Knowing things before they happen. • Recalling past-life experiences. • Seeing, hearing, feeling, and knowing messages that others do not perceive. • Learning how use the tools of the psychic trade and how to give a psychic reading. Get the things you really want in life by combining all you have learned about intuition!

Get an (after) life! A belief in the afterlife is common to almost every faith and culture around the world. Even people who don’t consider themselves “spiritual” share a fascination in life after death. In this powerful guide, author and intuitive Diane Ahlquist shares her own knowledge of the subject, as well as the views of such religious and spiritual leaders as Edgar Cayce and the Dalai Lama.

The universal consciousness is an open book to those willing to explore it. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to the Akashic leads readers on a journey into their personal past, present, and future, learning the fundamentals of the Akasha - a Hindu word variously translated as sky or space - and howto use the Record to explore their hidden past, heal old wounds, live an authentic life in the present and affect the future. - Explores cutting edge aspects of Body/Mind/Spirit -universal consciousness, synchronicity, energy fields, and more - How to decode the Akashic Record through meditation, visualization, and lucid dreaming techniques that anyone can learn

Erotic romance reigns supreme as a big category of women's fictions; a billion-dollar business serviced by a new breed of uninhibited writer. This book is the necessary how-to for first-timers and a terrific guide for seasoned professionals as well, who are putting their racy (and lucrative) fantasies to paper. Now, for the first time, a veteran erotic romance author shows exactly what to do and how. The first book to guide writers to succeed in this mutli-million dollar genre. Explores how to set up a plot and write good, steamy sex scenes. From a best-selling experienced author. Includes resource section for research tools and further reading. Interviews with top editors in the field. Foreword by Kate Duffy, editorial director at Kensington Publishing and founding editor of the genre.

Factoid Attack: Inherent sadistic streak in dentists confirmed! The electric chair was invented by a dentist, Dr. Alfred Southwick. Not surprising, dentists have been perfecting torture devices for centuries. Factoid Attack: Galaxy at risk! Intelligent life in short supply! In 1961, Astronomer Frank Drake estimated the number of probable intelligent civilizations inhabiting our galaxy. Using conservative numbers, that estimate came to 10,000. Unfortunately, we are not included in that total. Factoid Attack: Colorblind bulls hate all matadors equally! The color of a matador's cape, or muleta, is traditionally red, which is widely believed to irritate the bull. In reality, bulls are colorblind, so it is irrelevant what color cape a matador uses to antagonize them. Shot in the dark, but maybe it's the being stabbed with swords bit that pisses them off. Forget Fringe, Warehouse 13, and The X-Files. In this book, you'll find more weird and wacko truths than in all those combined. From golden poison dart frogs with enough venom to kill ten grown humans to cockroaches that can survive radiation 15 times stronger than what kills people, scary and strange just got scarier—and stranger!

You're no idiot, of course. You know life is a journey and that physical birth and death are it spoints of transition. Many people, across cultures and faiths, believe the spirit lives on and have experienced contact with the spirits of loved ones who have passed to the higher side. This contact is joyous, comforting and healing, but you wonder if it's really real and whether you can share in it, too. Don't give up the spirit! 'The Complete Idiot's Guide to Communicating With Spirits' will show you exactly how to uncover your own mediumistic capabilities and connect with those no longer on the earth plane. In this 'Complete Idiot's Guide', you get: -Tips on how to connect with your personal divine energy through prayer, meditation and dreams. -Information on the birth of the human soul, as perceived through theological, metaphysical and spiritual viewpoints. -Exercises to help you develop your mediumistic abilities. -Tangible evidence of the continuity of life.

A blend of traditional and non-traditional approaches toward client-centered paranomal investigation. The methodology provides a solid structure as compared to random methods used by ghost investigators.

How to conduct paranormal investigations.