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Fascinating and yet impossible NOT to believe., May 2, 1997
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This review is from: Faces in the Smoke: An Eyewitness Experience of Voodoo, Shamanism, Psychic Healing, and Other Amazing Human Powers (Paperback)
This book is out of print. But it is one of the best on the subject of the frontiers of human psychic powers such as teleportion, levitation, and black magic. The author's experiences and anecdotes about his travels through Africa, Haiti, Indonesia, etc. definitely have the ring of truth. Especially for an expat like myself residing in Indonesia, I have come to understand that people in other cultures focus their human abilities based on a different set of priorities than Westerners
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A Fascinating Read, October 30, 2007
This review is from: Faces in the Smoke: An Eyewitness Experience of Voodoo, Shamanism, Psychic Healing, and Other Amazing Human Powers (Paperback)
A fasinating book. Gersi recounts his experiences where he witnessed amazing powers among peoples of a wide range of different cultures that western civilization would consider `primitive'. Gersi witnessed one account of actual teleportation where he noticed that each time the shaman disappeared there was what appeared to be a strange moving "trail" (like heat waves) riding behind the shaman that resembled or took the form of a broomstick. He speculated that this might be the basis of the legend that witches ride broomsticks, such as, in pre-Colombian Mexico, the Aztecs worshiped Tiazolteotl (the witch-Goddess), who was usually depicted carrying or riding a broom.
I would highly recommend this book.
From the dust jacket:
"Gersi begins with stories about his childhood experiences in the Belgian Congo - of murder by magic, of faith healing, of survival after death - that whetted his appetite for the frontiers of human knowledge. In this book he recounts some of his most stunningly provocative adventure in dimensions of experience normally thought impossible by the Western mind, but lived daily by peoples of tradition on islands, in jungles, and high in remote mountain ranges.
"Come travel with Douchan Gersi in this adventure-packed book to the farthest outposts of the world, where he particiapted in and photographed initiations and other sacred rituals normally forbidden to outsiders. How does he do this? 'I walk up to the village and open up my heart to them', he says - thus he has won accpetance into the innermost circles of many peoples of tradition. Gersi describes the black magic of Haitian sorcerers and the sacred services of the followers of the religion of Voodoo.
"He shows us surgery done by the bare hands of faith healers of the Andes and the Philippines, drives across the Sahara guided only by a blind seer from the telepathic Tuareg people, and tells us of human beings levitating and passing through solid walls among the Flying Men of Haiti.
Our Western mind find such mysteries to be incredible - but does our disbelief in the extrasensory powers of the human brain merely cause us to lose the use of them? A work of nonfiction more exotic than most novels, Faces in the Smoke is an eyewitness account by a master adventurer and storyteller. It will captivate the hearts of all who pursue understanding of the outer limits of human nature and of the possibilities open to the courageous human spirit."
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Good book, Great condition!, July 4, 2009
This review is from: Faces in the Smoke: An Eyewitness Experience of Voodoo, Shamanism, Psychic Healing, and Other Amazing Human Powers (Paperback)
Great read! I didnt expect the book to be a hard back, so that was good. Overall,Fast shipping and good quality product.
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