Remarkable story of a research project on the bioenerscience – intuitional knowledge – and a particular way of interaction with the bioenergemal ('spiritual') universe called bioenergemal communication. The author talks to a person (called Lucela) in relaxation as she describes extraordinary interactions with religious figures, including God the Father, Jesus, Mary and others – as well as the author himself. The author detects that threats and instructions become less and less veiled, and the religious figures are revealed as monopolistic and self-serving; while some of Lucela's bioimages and bioscenes are truly terrifying. The conclusions are swaying tradition's foundations and are ground-breaking steps in the fascinating field of bioenergemal communication.

"This text is intended for a one-semester introductory course."--Page 1.

Annotation In rough chronological order from antiquity to the 19th century, Seiwert (comparative religion, Leipzig U.) identifies and describes religious communities and movements outside the official religion. For the period before the Ming dynasty, he looks at prophecies and messianism in Han Confucianism, popular sects and the early Daoist tradition, heterodox movements in medieval Buddhism, and popular sectarianism during the Song and Yuan dynasties. He devotes the second half of the book to the Ming and Qing dynasties. Ma Xisha (world religions, Chinese Academy for the Social Sciences) collaborated on the work. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

In Practicing Safe Sects F. LeRon Shults provides scientific and philosophical resources for having “the talk” about religious reproduction: where do gods come from – and what are the costs of bearing them in our culturally pluralistic, ecologically fragile environment?

This is a remarkable story of a research project on the working of the consciousness and a particular form of communication with the spiritual world called etsodcommunication.The author, a well-known psychotherapist, talks to his clients (generally called Lucero) as they describe a series of extraordinary interactions with religious figures, including God the Father, Jesus, Mary and others - as well as the therapist himself.The author detects hidden persuasive forces at work in the unfolding dramas. Threats and instructions become less and less veiled, and the religious figures are revealed as monopolistic and self-serving; while some of Lucero's mental images and dreams are truly terrifying.The conclusions are ground-breaking steps in the fascinating field of parapsychology. The suggestibility of clients at the interface is admitted, but this does not, claims the author, invade the process or negate its importance as an enriching experience.This is a book packed with ideas about the mind, matter and mankind. A milestone in a rapidly expanding area of psychology, it merits a place on the shelves of professionals, students, and anyone involved with psychotherapy.