Auerbach - Mind over matter: a comprehensive guide to discovering your psychic powers

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Mind Over Matter: A Comprehensive Guide to Discovering Your Psychic Powers 2017 by Loyd Auerbach.

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First e-book edition 2017

E-book ISBN: 9780738753171

This book was previously published by Kensington Books, 1996.

Cover design: Kevin R. Brown

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Auerbach, Loyd, author.

Title: Mind over matter : a comprehensive guide to discovering your psychic
powers / Loyd Auerbach.

Description: REVISED EDITION. | Woodbury : Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd,
2017. | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017022334 (print) | LCCN 2017009347 (ebook) | ISBN
9780738753171 (ebook) | ISBN 9780738752648 (alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Parapsychology. | Mental healing. | Psychic ability.

Classification: LCC BF1031 (print) | LCC BF1031 .A86 2017 (ebook) | DDC
133.8--dc23

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Dedication

For Julie, who truly matters to me; and to the memory of the late, great Martin Caidin. Thank you, Marty, for all you did for me, and for your lasting impact on my life and my work.

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What someone can do or cannot do is absolutely not proportional in any way to anyone elses belief or disbelief.

What you believe someone else can or cant do hasnt got beans with the doing. Or lack of doing. Just go back through your history books and youll discover that just about everything you take for granted today in your daily lives was absolutely impossible not so many years ago.

Martin Caidin, from Haunted America

(1994 unaired TV Pilot, Abbitt-Prest Productions)

Contents

: What Is Mind Over Matter?

: Outstanding Human Physical Performance: Sports and Other Mind-Body Performances

: The Powers of Saints, Prophets, and Other Spiritual Figures

: The Unusual and the Bizarre

: Mental Healing: From Self to Psychic

: Psychic Attack

: Manipulating Nature: The Occult Perspective

: Poltergeists and Ghosts: Is It Mind or Spirit?

: The Force Is With You

: Human-Machine Interactions: How We Affect Technology Every Day

: Do-It-Yourself Mind Over Matter

: Faking It!

: What Does This Really Mean to You?

Introduction

Can you move matter with your mind? Of course you can! By the simple direction of your mind to tell your hands to pick up this book, open it, and page through it, you have performed a piece of mind over matter.

When most people think of mind over matter, they typically think of movie or TV or comic book characters levitating objects (or themselves) or throwing off bolts of mental force or perhaps bending spoons and forks (much to the disgust of restaurant owners). While all that may be part of what researchers in the field of parapsychology have been studying as psychokinesisthe mind acting directly on physical matter or energythere is much more to it. And that much more is what this book is about: the much more of how our minds affect ourselves and the world around us.

As we ended the twentieth and entered the twenty-first century, more and more of us have been looking outside as well as inside for answers to understanding our nature and improving our lives. At the same time, one of the biggest political discussions today concerns the physical health of the citizens of the United States, and there is an increasing focus on the minds interaction with the body to create good health.

At the time of the writing of this book, there was more and more about health care and medicine in the news. Thanks to the Clintons in the 1990s, there was the start of a great focus on our health care system, and it was clear we have been in crisis in this country. Rising medical costs, lack of insurance coverage, and the unwillingness of either the providers of health care or the insurance carriers to bend to some kind of compromise is forcing an issue out in the open that should have been there long ago. President Obamas health care focus and legislation was a firstthough clearly contentiousstep in alleviating issues of health care for a large number of Americans.

Alternative medicine is the phrase covering methods of healing that stand outside of traditional Western medicine, specifically that approved of and practiced by members of the American Medical Association. But insurance carriers and others who pay for health care have, to a small degree, been looking toward treatment methods that have largely been ignored because of the influence of the AMA and the pharmaceutical interests. These treatment methods include chiropractic (more accepted in some parts of the country than others), acupuncture, and massage therapy as well as the use of natural herbs, therapeutic touch, and a variety of mental healing methods. Even the National Institute of Health has gotten in on the act by sponsoring research looking into alternative therapies.