Field Guide to the Spirit World, Susan B. Martinez
Field Guide to the Spirit World, Susan B. Martinez
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Field Guide to the Spirit World
The Science of Angel Power, Discarnate Entities, and Demonic Possession

Author: Susan B. Martinez, Whitley Strieber

Narrator: Robin Douglas

Unabridged: 10 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/09/2019


Synopsis

A comprehensive examination of the many ways the spirit world affects our minds and the material plane

• Provides a detailed guide to the Afterlife and its inhabitants

• Reveals the spirit influence behind many mental disorders as well as psi abilities and creative genius

• Includes checklists of symptoms of spirit “overshadowing,” methods from the world’s top exorcists, and instructions on how to free unwanted spirits from the material plane

We are spirits housed in a body, and just as houses can be haunted, so can people. When the living succumb to dissociative states of consciousness, they become a magnet for lost but clinging spirits. Known as jinn, dybbuk, daemon, wuqabi, or simply the undead, they hover unseen on the earth plane, ready to inhabit the most suitable body available.

Documenting the life of wandering spirits and their impact on vulnerable human targets, Susan Martinez offers a radical departure from the standard psychological explanations for a host of pathological behaviors--including multiple personality, autism, epilepsy, migraines, obsessive compulsive disorder, depression, schizophrenia, anxiety, PTSD, self-destructive urges, and strange outbursts--and reveals that hallucinations are often true impressions of spirit input. Martinez explains how mental health comes down to the delicate balance between self-control and spirit-control. When trauma triggers an escape response, the soul takes flight, leaving the mind susceptible to possession by discarnate entities. However, the spirit world can also bestow gifts upon those whose psyches are open, such as in the case of mediums, shamans, people who communicate with angels, and many of the world’s creative geniuses.

Martinez presents “overshadowing” by spirits as a universal, cross-cultural phenomenon, documenting modern and traditional accounts as well as corroborating indigenous beliefs. She examines soul decay, soul travel both before and after death, as well as how knowledge of the spirit world can offer positive treatments for disorders like schizophrenia and autism. Providing a detailed guide to the spirit world and its inhabitants, the author offers checklists of symptoms of “overshadowing,” methods from the world’s top exorcists, and instructions on how to free spirits so they can continue their journey into the beyond--all the tools necessary to forearm us against soul snatchers and other enemies of the Light.

About Susan B. Martinez

Susan B. Martinez, Ph.D., is a writer, linguist, teacher, paranormal researcher, and recognized authority on the Oahspe Bible with a doctorate in anthropology from Columbia University. The author of Delusions in Science and Spirituality, Time of the Quickening, The Lost History of the Little People and The Mysterious Origins of Hybrid Man, she lives in Clayton, Georgia.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mary on December 28, 2018

Field Guide to the Spirit World reads like research and is not for those that have a mild interest in the spirit world, ghosts, or the paranormal. It's more of a theological work with a slant towards the old world view that mental illness is created by demons and spirits and that is where I had a gr......more

Goodreads review by Marie on December 22, 2018

Very interesting book on a variety of paranormal experiences. From NDE, out of body experiences and spirit walking and how many outside influence's affect this. There are chapters on the afterlife, possession and UFO phenomenon, among many others. Are some psychological and health problems caused or......more

Goodreads review by Kim on February 01, 2019

An interesting and comprehensive glimpse into many aspects of the spiritual realm outside of our own. It would be a good source for anyone researching near-death experience, multiple personalities, possessions and the mental consequences of those, what happens to the soul after death and more. While......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on December 17, 2018

This is one of those books I'd recommend to any paranormal researcher or anyone experiencing paranormal or psychic attacks. I enjoyed the author's style as it reminded me a bit of Colin Wilson. The book recounts fascinating cases of near death experiences,demonic possession, haunted places and more.......more

Goodreads review by Christina on March 11, 2019

It was just ok... The author was very critical and judgemental which made it hard to read. I voluntarily read this book via NetGalley in exchange for my honest opinion.......more


Quotes

“The depth and quality of research exemplified by Susan B. Martinez, Ph.D., in her previous books are evident again in Field Guide to the Spirit World. The spirit world is all around us all the time, and this very helpful book provides a key to the spiritual world and a guide to working with it for the treatment of mental disorders caused by ‘overshadowing.’ As Whitley Strieber says in his foreword, ‘Step out of the prison of materialism in order to see such experiences in ways that might deepen our understanding of ourselves and the amazing universe’--as Strieber demonstrates when he talks about the loss of his wife, Anne, and how that opened his spiritual vision.”

“From all accounts, the world beyond the veil is a labyrinth chock-full of entities both good and ill. With her new book Field Guide to the Spirit World: The Science of Angel Power, Discarnate Entities, and Demonic Possession, Susan B. Martinez has contributed an important work that helps to demystify the other side. It warrants an important place on your Fortean bookshelf and, more importantly, in your hands as you read and learn.”

"When I was initiated into the world of spiritualism, I was taught that protection was the most important thing when contacting disembodied spirits. I was also told that a majority of people in mental institutions might be there because they are “oppressed by negative entities." Now Susan Martinez, who has a doctorate in anthropology from Columbia University, has written this book about encounters in the spirit world that run the whole gamut from selfless helpers to those trapped by their attachment to the material world I am grateful to Susan Martinez for beginning the dialogue in such a knowledgeable and caring way."