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Practical Psychic Training: Psychometry, Intuition, Clairvoyance, Psychomancy, and Crystal Gazing
Practical Instructions for: Sensing objects by the Astral Senses. The Astral Tube. Projection of the Astral Body. The Dawn of the Psychic Faculties. Auric Colors. Visions. Development Methods. The Magic Mirror. How to use the Crystal and Mirror. Simple and Space Psychomancy and their differences. Sensitivity to Impressions. "Feeling" the Thought of Others. Seeing Through Solid Objects. Fundamental principle of Psychic Communication. Locating persons by a lock of hair, etc. Reading a person's characteristics, past history, etc. Describing distant scenes from flowers, etc. Describing mines from bits of minerals, etc. Reading the past associations of an object. Directions of "How to Do It," Reading the Future. Future events cast their shadows before. Destiny and Fate. Premonitions, Pervisions and Second Sight... and more - inside.
- GenresSpiritualityOccult
99 pages, Paperback
First published November 30, 1906
About the author
William Walker Atkinson
2,634 books407 followersPseudonyms: Theron Q. Dumont, Yogi Ramacharaka, Swami Bhakta Vishita & Swami Panchadasi
William Walker Atkinson (December 5, 1862 – November 22, 1932) was an attorney, merchant, publisher, and author, as well as an occultist and an American pioneer of the New Thought movement. He is also known to have been the author of the pseudonymous works attributed to Theron Q. Dumont, Swami Panchadasi and Yogi Ramacharaka and others.
Due in part to Atkinson's intense personal secrecy and extensive use of pseudonyms, he is now largely forgotten, despite having obtained mention in past editions of Who's Who in America, Religious Leaders of America, and several similar publications—and having written more than 100 books in the last 30 years of his life. His works have remained in print more or less continuously since 1900.
William Walker Atkinson was born in Baltimore, Maryland on December 5, 1862, to William and Emma Atkinson. He began his working life as a grocer at 15 years old, probably helping his father. He married Margret Foster Black of Beverly, New Jersey, in October 1889, and they had two children. The first probably died young. The second later married and had two daughters.
Atkinson pursued a business career from 1882 onwards and in 1894 he was admitted as an attorney to the Bar of Pennsylvania. While he gained much material success in his profession as a lawyer, the stress and over-strain eventually took its toll, and during this time he experienced a complete physical and mental breakdown, and financial disaster. He looked for healing and in the late 1880s he found it with New Thought, later attributing the restoration of his health, mental vigor and material prosperity to the application of the principles of New Thought.
Some time after his healing, Atkinson began to write articles on the truths he felt he had discovered, which were then known as Mental Science. In 1889, an article by him entitled "A Mental Science Catechism," appeared in Charles Fillmore's new periodical, Modern Thought.
By the early 1890s Chicago had become a major centre for New Thought, mainly through the work of Emma Curtis Hopkins, and Atkinson decided to move there. Once in the city, he became an active promoter of the movement as an editor and author. He was responsible for publishing the magazines Suggestion (1900–1901), New Thought (1901–1905) and Advanced Thought (1906–1916).
In 1900 Atkinson worked as an associate editor of Suggestion, a New Thought Journal, and wrote his probable first book, Thought-Force in Business and Everyday Life, being a series of lessons in personal magnetism, psychic influence, thought-force, concentration, will-power, and practical mental science.
He then met Sydney Flower, a well-known New Thought publisher and businessman, and teamed up with him. In December, 1901 he assumed editorship of Flower's popular New Thought magazine, a post which he held until 1905. During these years he built for himself an enduring place in the hearts of its readers. Article after article flowed from his pen. Meanwhile he also founded his own Psychic Club and the so-called "Atkinson School of Mental Science". Both were located in the same building as Flower's Psychic Research and New Thought Publishing Company.
Atkinson was a past president of the International New Thought Alliance.
Throughout his subsequent career, Atkinson wrote and published under his own name and many pseudonyms. It is not known whether he ever acknowledged authorship of these pseudonymous works, but all of the supposedly independent authors whose writings are now credited to Atkinson were linked to one another by virtue of the fact that their works were released by a series of publishing houses with shared addresses and they also wrote for a series of magazines with a shared roster of authors. Atkinson was the editor of a
William Walker Atkinson (December 5, 1862 – November 22, 1932) was an attorney, merchant, publisher, and author, as well as an occultist and an American pioneer of the New Thought movement. He is also known to have been the author of the pseudonymous works attributed to Theron Q. Dumont, Swami Panchadasi and Yogi Ramacharaka and others.
Due in part to Atkinson's intense personal secrecy and extensive use of pseudonyms, he is now largely forgotten, despite having obtained mention in past editions of Who's Who in America, Religious Leaders of America, and several similar publications—and having written more than 100 books in the last 30 years of his life. His works have remained in print more or less continuously since 1900.
William Walker Atkinson was born in Baltimore, Maryland on December 5, 1862, to William and Emma Atkinson. He began his working life as a grocer at 15 years old, probably helping his father. He married Margret Foster Black of Beverly, New Jersey, in October 1889, and they had two children. The first probably died young. The second later married and had two daughters.
Atkinson pursued a business career from 1882 onwards and in 1894 he was admitted as an attorney to the Bar of Pennsylvania. While he gained much material success in his profession as a lawyer, the stress and over-strain eventually took its toll, and during this time he experienced a complete physical and mental breakdown, and financial disaster. He looked for healing and in the late 1880s he found it with New Thought, later attributing the restoration of his health, mental vigor and material prosperity to the application of the principles of New Thought.
Some time after his healing, Atkinson began to write articles on the truths he felt he had discovered, which were then known as Mental Science. In 1889, an article by him entitled "A Mental Science Catechism," appeared in Charles Fillmore's new periodical, Modern Thought.
By the early 1890s Chicago had become a major centre for New Thought, mainly through the work of Emma Curtis Hopkins, and Atkinson decided to move there. Once in the city, he became an active promoter of the movement as an editor and author. He was responsible for publishing the magazines Suggestion (1900–1901), New Thought (1901–1905) and Advanced Thought (1906–1916).
In 1900 Atkinson worked as an associate editor of Suggestion, a New Thought Journal, and wrote his probable first book, Thought-Force in Business and Everyday Life, being a series of lessons in personal magnetism, psychic influence, thought-force, concentration, will-power, and practical mental science.
He then met Sydney Flower, a well-known New Thought publisher and businessman, and teamed up with him. In December, 1901 he assumed editorship of Flower's popular New Thought magazine, a post which he held until 1905. During these years he built for himself an enduring place in the hearts of its readers. Article after article flowed from his pen. Meanwhile he also founded his own Psychic Club and the so-called "Atkinson School of Mental Science". Both were located in the same building as Flower's Psychic Research and New Thought Publishing Company.
Atkinson was a past president of the International New Thought Alliance.
Throughout his subsequent career, Atkinson wrote and published under his own name and many pseudonyms. It is not known whether he ever acknowledged authorship of these pseudonymous works, but all of the supposedly independent authors whose writings are now credited to Atkinson were linked to one another by virtue of the fact that their works were released by a series of publishing houses with shared addresses and they also wrote for a series of magazines with a shared roster of authors. Atkinson was the editor of a
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September 5, 2020
History book more so. Definitely not a peek into how these things are accomplished.
February 3, 2021
great old school insight on clairvoyance.
October 5, 2023
Don't scry for me
Decades ago, I took classes and hypnosis at the Fort Worth Institute of Hypnosis. One of the courses was on Crystallomancy. However, we did cover several other subjects that are in this book. We dealt with past lives, out-of-body experiences, etc.
I have a hard copy of this book in my library near my crystal ball mounted on a black velvet cloth. I still periodically dabble in scrying for the fun of it. You will find it easy to do and quite addictive.
For such a small book, this is packed with a lot of great information, some of practical some of that informative but all of it useful especially if you are watching movies that tout any kind of psychic phenomena or capabilities. It is divided into easy-to-read chapters dedicated to the different skills and clarifies terminologies.
If you find yourself reading books by Sax Rohmer, Alice Hoffman, or the like, you will want to read this book first. It is even useful for such movies as "Vibes" (1988) with Cyndi Lauper.
I also keep an electronic version to refer to when I am on the go.
Decades ago, I took classes and hypnosis at the Fort Worth Institute of Hypnosis. One of the courses was on Crystallomancy. However, we did cover several other subjects that are in this book. We dealt with past lives, out-of-body experiences, etc.
I have a hard copy of this book in my library near my crystal ball mounted on a black velvet cloth. I still periodically dabble in scrying for the fun of it. You will find it easy to do and quite addictive.
For such a small book, this is packed with a lot of great information, some of practical some of that informative but all of it useful especially if you are watching movies that tout any kind of psychic phenomena or capabilities. It is divided into easy-to-read chapters dedicated to the different skills and clarifies terminologies.
If you find yourself reading books by Sax Rohmer, Alice Hoffman, or the like, you will want to read this book first. It is even useful for such movies as "Vibes" (1988) with Cyndi Lauper.
I also keep an electronic version to refer to when I am on the go.
August 28, 2013
I liked it, and thought it was useful. However, it wasn't as detailed as I had hoped. There were many interesting accounts that edified the practical theory of this subject, and has peaked my interest in the area further.
March 11, 2013
1908 edition
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