The Table of Contents Why so much detail? Why so much detail? While many of the concepts presented in this book are historically familiar, others are actually revolutionary and challenging to many familiar ideas and historic myths. On a chapter-by-chapter basis, readers may easily embrace what we''ve provided in one chapter, question what is in another chapter, and not recognize the challenge in a third. Yet, we do believe that what the whole book provides will find not only acceptance but also support - perhaps even enthusiastic endorsement. Each chapter stands alone, and yet is integral to the whole system of New Age Spiritual Communication that reflects what we call "New Age" and "Aquarian thought and action." We support the transition from "old age" Piscean ways to New Age/Aquarian (and Information Age) ways with sufficient detail and commentary to show the evolutionary movement of human culture through historic cycles. We believe that these chapter summaries pointing to the transitional challenges from the 5,000 years of the repressive political and social domination of male-dominant monotheism to the New Spirituality will help the reader focus on the real psychic, psychological, and spiritual factors involved in Communicating with Spirit in contrast to the historic and mythic claims and common assumptions about Spirit and Spirituality. The Human Person is a complex multi-dimensional entity with conflicting drives and needs that are resolvable as the Spiritual Dimension is engaged. Each chapter is a progression towards that goal.

We encourage you to read the entire Table of Contents before moving on to Forewords and onward through the book as a whole, including Appendices, Glossary, and even familiarize yourself with the Index as a working tool. In one sense, we are following the well-travelled teachers'' road - Here''s what we''re going to tell you (the table of contents; Here''s what we are telling you (the chapter text and ending meditation ); and Here''s what we''ve told you (the glossary and in-depth index). The glossary presents the special words and phrases as they were used in the book. The definitions provided summarize ideas from the book as a whole while pointing to the parts with suggestions for further study and development. Every book is a Shared Endeavor between Reader(s) and Author(s) Every book is shared endeavor between authors and readers. We, the co-authors, put a lot of work into the book - always with the reader in mind. We try to clearly communicate ideas, recognize those that may be challenging to the reader, and provide a series of charts and tables, programs, exercises, rituals, and meditations to work with the reader in our shared endeavor. At the end of most chapters we suggest a simple meditation - not as a formal and structured program or ritual, but simply an idea to think about in a particular way.

Meditation on an idea The Procedure is simple: We suggest having a journal (preferably a loose-leaf binder so you easily go back to expand an idea)for your work with this book, and starting off by writing down the idea for the first meditation. Sit back and relax, with pen or pencil in hand, or with a tablet computer at the ready (if that will be your journal). Passively ruminate (literally to "chew the cud") and thoughtfully go over the idea, and let it "talk to you." Don''t make an effort, just relax; don''t get out the dictionary or look up anything in an encyclopedia or on-line, just relax; if you want, just relax and close your eyes. Whenever it seems right, just write down whatever seems right. End the session. Before you start the meditation on a second idea, read over what you wrote about the first to establish a passive continuity between them, and then proceed as with the first. Thank you, and Good Wishes from your partners, Joe Slate and Carl Weschcke Foreword: A New Beginning xxx Everything has a "Past," and the study and practice of any subject involves the past of the person, of the community, and the subject - but the most important factor is how you look at "the evidence.

" Contents include: Don''t let the Past be a limitation on your fresh thinking and independent investigation. A Fresh Start - everything you now do is a "Next Step." Spirituality is Dynamic and encompasses more than "talking with the dead." "Ye are Gods in the Making." That is the obvious purpose of our existence - to evolve and fulfill our highest potential, to become all that we can be, and thus to realize the unity of human and the universe: As Above, So Below. "Meditation: What does "Communicating with Spirit" mean to you?" xxx Preface - After Death: What Where, Channeled from A Ghost named George - xxx The Importance of the Question before the Answer. George writes: I don''t use words or images, just ideas that I push out to the channel. Ideas become impressions and then words as answers.

But, without a question, there can be no answer, and the way the "question" is framed is of the utmost importance to the quality and definitive power of the answer Contents include: The Physical Body is a "temporary vehicle." "You" are not the physical body which is a temporary but necessary "vehicle" for you during physical life. There''s more to "you" than the present physical body and personality. After Death Survival. After physical death, your personality survives in that composite vehicle and moves on to the astral vehicle and eventually moves on to finish the journey and incarnate once again in a new physical and composite vehicle to continue to grow. "You" are not your Soul. Your personality is not the whole soul but one of many aspects of it incarnating life after life and occupying a series of temporary vehicles each composed of the substance of one dimension after the other. To the Land of Oz via a Shamanic tornado.

There is a real and a subtle connection between the essential astral dimension and the astral world of our experience. Dorothy, in the fictional Wizard of Oz, traveled to the "astral" land over the rainbow via a physical whirling tornado, but she returned to "physical" Kansas by an act of imagination to return from the astral to the physical. The "boundary" between inner and outer is the Wizard''s domain. Realize that it is only the physical universe that occupies "space." We use psychic science and technologies to explore inner space, and physical science and technologies to explore outer space. We are the "boundary between inner and outer" and it is with our Wizard''s techniques of hypnosis/self-hypnosis, meditation, magick, divination, shamanism, mediumship and channeling that we probe inner space and bring back experiential knowledge into our conscious realization. You have the potential. Each of us has both the potential and the obligation to become "wizards" able to function between the worlds and bring back the knowledge and know-how of the gods to empower each person to become more than she/he is and all he/she can be.

Who is George? Carl writes of his initial encounters with George in the old mansion, and how this relationship has continued with the psychic or psychological George prompting answers. Illustration, Art: a Shmanic Tornado whirling Dorothy xxx Illustration, Art: Astral Land over the Rainbow xxx Illustration, Art: The "boundary" between inner and outer is the Wizard''s domain.