Recommended Reading List
Donovan, Penny, Rev. Christ Becoming: The Lives of Jesus & His Path to the Christ: Channeled by Reverend Penny Donovan. Albany, NY: Sacred Garden Fellowship, Inc., 2018.
Christ Becoming: The Lives of Jesus & His Path to the Christ is a fantastic book. It is a transcript of 3 days of channeled teachings of Archangel Gabriel through the medium Rev. Penny Donovan. What I find so exciting is that these teachings are similar in style but not in substance to Ramtha and Awan. While the content of Ramtha, Awan, and Archangel Gabriel are vastly different, the wording or content is identical on specific points. This helps to prove that there is only one truth, despite the messenger who delivers it.
Archangel Gabriel does not speak in flowery language but in the everyday, colloquial vernacular, making his teachings easy to understand and absorb. On the first day, Gabriel explains Jesus’ past lives. Throughout this lecture, he reinterprets many Bible stories, which provides the reader with the motivation of why certain events occurred. The second day focuses on the Life of Jesus, while the final day discusses how to live more like Christ.
Greaves, Helen. Testimony of Light: An Extraordinary Message of Life After Death. First published in 1969.
This is a book of Spirit communication, in which the Spirit gives detailed descriptions of life in the Spirit World. It includes descriptions of how new arrivals adjust to their new lives in their spiritual bodies. This book is fascinating and a must-read!
Weisberg, Barbara. Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism. Publisher San Francisco: Harper SanFrancisco, 2004.
Most Spiritualists know the Fox Sisters were the first mediums to begin “Modern Spiritualism.” This famous event occurred on March 31, 1848, in Hydesville, New York, when loud raps were heard in the Fox house. The sisters began talking to the raps, and the raps started to respond. However, there is so much more to their story, which this book explores in fascinating and fine detail.
Margaret, Leah, and Kate Fox were pioneers of both Spiritualism and women’s rights. They pushed the envelope of social norms, just as the singer Madonna did in the 1980s. The Fox sisters dared to speak publicly and hold public séances, which was highly unusual in their day. They also supported themselves through mediumship, holding séances and giving private readings, and made a handsome living in those days.
Their mediumship went beyond rappings, including automatic writing, precipitated art, and trance messages. Kate went on to be a materialization medium. Kate Fox traveled to England, worked with another famous medium, Daniel Dunglas Home, and was tested by the famous psychical researcher William Crooks.
However, their mediumship and fighting social norms came at a price. Each sister battled alcoholism. Margaret became estranged from her sisters and even claimed that the rappings were done by snapping their toe and leg joints.
The author writes a well-balanced book, and while supporting the claims of legitimate mediumship, she deals fairly with the conflicting claims of fraud. This book explores the lives of these three sisters and explains the historical context in which they lived.
Anonymous. The Boy Who Saw True. London: Rider, 2005.
This book is written with unique charm. It is the diary of a boy who was born clairaudient and clairvoyant. His first entry was made on January 1, 1880, and the diary ends on October 11, 1887. However, after the diary entries, a series of letters continues until 1927.
The diary's author not only chose to remain anonymous but insisted his diary was to be published several years after his death. The language of this book is different from modern American English. Not only does the author use British colloquialisms, but words are often misspelled because the author was very young. Despite this, the book is easy to understand and most enjoyable to read.
Interspersed between the mundane events of the author’s young life are remarkable gems of information about the Spirit and the Spirit World. One fascinating fact is that Jesus often communicated with the author on many subjects, including confirming that everyone reincarnates. He also describes how the Spirit benefits from being remembered or prayed for by people in the physical world.
Based on the diary entries of a young Victorian boy with an extraordinary supernatural talent. This is a naïve, insightful, funny, and moving account of a precocious young clairvoyant. This anonymous author could see auras and spirits born with an incredible gift. Yet he failed to realize that other people were not similarly gifted. This remarkable book has become a paranormal classic.
Martinez, Susan B. The Psychic Life of Abraham Lincoln. Franklin Lakes, NJ: New Page Books, 2007.
This book not only gives detailed information about Abraham Lincoln's life but includes abundant information about his own dreams, premonitions, and the various mediums who read for him.
“In this informative and intriguing book, Dr. Susan Martinez digs deeply into the documented records of Lincoln’s involvement with mediums, and sets forth a preponderance of evidence suggesting he was indeed guided by benevolent spirits in his most crucial decisions.”
—Michael E Tymn, vice president, Academy of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies, and author of The Articulate Dead.
Martin, Joel. The Haunting of the Presidents: A Paranormal History of the U.S. Presidency. New York: Signet, 2003.
This book contains fascinating accounts of presidents who had visions, had psychic experiences, consulted mediums, or returned to visit the physical world after their deaths. This topic was omitted when we studied American History.
Nohavec, Janet and Giesemann, Suzanne. Where Two Worlds Meet. San Diego, CA: Aventine Press, 2010.
This book is an excellent tool to learn how to be an evidential medium.
Janet Nohavec has built her reputation as a medium and as a teacher of mediumship on the respect and integrity she gives to her work. In Where Two Worlds Meet, Janet shows you how to hone your own mediumistic gifts by sharing her proven, systematic techniques for practicing evidential mediumship –– the most credible way to build a bridge between this world and the next. For Janet, mediumship is sacred work that carries tremendous responsibility. In these pages, she gives specific instructions on how to change people’s lives and comfort those grieving with evidential messages from the other side. Here, you'll learn how to paint those who have crossed over back to life, and after reading Where Two Worlds Meet, you won't settle for anything less than a masterpiece in your mediumship.
Danby, Leslie Charles. The Certainty of Eternity: The Story of Australia’s Greatest Medium. Hove, England: White Crow Books, 2013.
This is a phenomenal book. Its primary focus is to describe the mediumship of Stanley Walsh, an Australian medium born in 1910 and died in 1994. However, this book is unique because it interweaves explanations of many principles of psychic science, many of which have not been discussed in a long time. The book was initially published in 1974, but this edition is a 2013 reprint.
This book uses unique terminology, but much of its information resembles what Rev. Carl Hewitt often discussed. The medium, Stanley Walsh, had some of the same gifts and experiences as Carl.
Aykroyd, Peter H. A History of Ghosts: The True Story of Séances, Mediums, Ghosts, and Ghostbusters/foreword by Dan Aykroyd. [Emmaus, Pa.]: Rodale; [New York]: Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, 2009.
Dan Aykroyd’s great-grandfather held weekly séances at his home and kept detailed journals of what occurred. This information forms the foundation of this book. It is an excellent, detailed history of the early days of Modern Spiritualism and the careers of some famous and not-so-famous mediums. It is a very easy read and most informative.
Anna; Heartsong, Claire. Anna, Grandmother of Jesus: A Message of Wisdom and Love. Carlsbad, CA: Hay House, Inc., 2017.
Anna is the mother of the Virgin Mary and the grandmother of Jesus. Her teachings and service birthed a spiritual lineage that changed the world. In this book, you'll discover missing pieces of history concerning Anna, Mary and Jesus, as channelled by Claire Heartsong, who has been receiving telepathic messages from Anna for 30 years.
Told through the gentle and heartwarming voice of Anna herself, this book offers insights into unknown places the holy family visited, people they knew and intimate details of their daily struggle to complete the Resurrection challenges. You will learn about the Essenes of Mount Carmel and their secret teachings and initiations, and gain a new understanding of Jesus's mission.
This book containing "soul codes" to bring Anna's wisdom and energy into your own spiritual life, this book is an invitation to complete a journey of initiation begun long ago.
