William Atkinson

A Psychic Training Course covering: The Law of Vibration, Existence and Usage of Thought Waves, Process of Mental Induction, Keys to Acquiring Skills of Mental Concentration, Mental Imaging Training, Acquiting the Skill of Fascination, How to Perform Hypnotic Influence, The Secret Keys to Influencing at a distance, and Influencing En Masse...including the Secrets for Self-Protection.

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.

Scientists who specialize in the study of Mississippi Valley earthquakes say that the region is overdue for a powerful tremor that will cause major damage and undoubtedly some casualties. The inevitability of a future quake and the lack of preparation by both individuals and communities provided the impetus for this book. Atkinson brings together applicable information from many disciplines: history, geology and seismology, engineering, zoology, politics and community planning, economics, environmental science, sociology, and psychology and mental health to provide the most comprehensive perspective to date of the myriad impacts of a major earthquake on the Mississippi Valley. Atkinson addresses such basic questions as What, actually, are earthquakes? How do they occur? Where are they likely to occur? Can they be predicted, perhaps even prevented? He also addresses those steps that individuals can take to improve their chances for survival both during and after an earthquake.

First published in 1572, The Lusiads is one of the greatest epic poems of the Renaissance, immortalizing Portugal's voyages of discovery with an unrivalled freshness of observation. At the centre of The Lusiads is Vasco da Gama's pioneer voyage via southern Africa to India in 1497-98. The first European artist to cross the equator, Camoes's narrative reflects the novelty and fascination of that original encounter with Africa, India and the Far East. The poem's twin symbols are the Cross and the Astrolabe, and its celebration of a turning point in mankind's knowledge of the world unites the old map of the heavens with the newly discovered terrain on earth. Yet it speaks powerfully, too, of the precariousness of power, and of the rise and decline of nationhood, threatened not only from without by enemies, but from within by loss of integrity and vision.