In the mid-1990s, Atlanta, Georgia-based portrait painter Virginia Adair traveled the world over, interviewing 43 female psychics and healers randomly chosen from 15 countries as far apart as Indonesia and Argentina. Through her interviews with women psychics of various cultures, we learn their life histories, the nature and limitations of their paranormal abilities, and their value systems. Ms. Adair seeks to understand the phenomena from a scientific point of view, citing contemporary scientists and philosophers. She wonders if the growing incidence of female paranormal power signals the start of an evolutionary leap forward.
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Virginia Adair was born and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, and attended college in Virginia. For many years, she has pursued a career as a portrait painter. Her works are in institutions and private collections both in America and in Europe. Ms. Adair is also the author of Eighteenth Century Pastel Portraits (John Gifford Ltd., 1971). She currently lives in Atlanta.
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This review is from: New Daughters of the Oracle: The Return of Female Prophetic Power in Our Time (Paperback)
New Daughters Of The Oracle: The Return Of Female Prophetic Power In Our Time is drawn from Virginia Adair's worldwide trip to learn as much as she could about people, especially women, who profess to be psychic. Filled with condensed interviews, exotic practices, and human experience in such varied nations as Italy, England, Hong Kong, Greece, and much more, Highly recommended for women's studies, metaphysical studies, and alternative medicine reading lists and reference collections, New Daughters Of The Oracle is an eye-opening look at the intercultural belief in human psychic powers and those who claim to practice this gift.
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In Bergen County, New Jersey, in the late 1970s, a ghastly series of murders took place. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
female psychics, psychic gift, spirit doctors, psychic healers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Signora De Filipo, Hong Kong, Signora Giardini, Greta Woodrew, Gwennie Scott, Irma Coombs Williams, Mexico City, New York, Laura Mangeiameli, Chuen Shang, Jean Houston, Mike Charles, New Jersey, Barrie Stonehill, Belgrave Square, Signor Pegano, Signora Buronzo, Sri Aurobindo, Caroline Henry, Far East, June Adams, Ruth Baher, Sri Lanka, World War, Big Bang New!
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- Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yogananda on page 163
- Sanctified Body, The by Patricia Treece on page 57
- Lord Jim (Everyman's Library) by Joseph Conrad on page 147
- Lord Jim (Oxford Bookworms) by Joseph Conrad on page 147
- Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda on page 163
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