Customer Reviews

the effects of directed prayer - By: Stephen, 24 Mar 2008
The other review is very odd: this book, emphatically & explicitly, is talking about the prayers usedin all religions, including Protestant Christianity, especially those related to healing & harming, & about the laboratory evidence for "non-local" effects of directed intention. It's valuable (even if it turns out that many of these effects are illusory) by pointing out how often doctors may unthinkingly blight their patients' prospects by saying "It's your funeral", "You should be operated on at once, preferably yesterday" & so on. It's also valuablein that it raises serious questions about the "non-locality of mind" (how much can we influence outside our own bodies, & what can we do to protect ourselves against other influences?". The author doesn't seem to have a settled view of the metaphysics of this, though his usual suggestion is that demons are more likely to be aspects of our own selves than separate entities. Whether & to what extent God enters the equation is uncertain. Overall, an interesting & balanced exploration. And nothing to do with "Satanists" or "Occultists".

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Be Careful What You Pray For, You Might Just Get It: What We Can Do About the Unintentional Effects of Our Thoughts, Prayers and - By: Phillip Bastians, 09 Sep 2006
This is an excellent book. It covers mainly prayers used by Occultists & Satanists. You will be amazed to learn that Catholic Priests used to invoke Demonsin thier Prayers.