Awareness

J. Garrett Eileen

Description

Compilation of psychic Eileen J. Garrett's thoughts on human consciousness, faith and first hand knowledge of the workings of her own psychic abilitites. A plea for increased knowledge of our inner potentialities remains as valid now as when first published in l943, with a reminder that as in the ancient legend the key to man's destiny is hidden within himself.

Sujets

• Body
• Alternative medicine
• Mind

Informations

• Publié par: Parapsychology Foundation Inc
• Date de parution: 03 novembre 2010
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781931747356
• Langue: English

Extrait

Awareness
Awareness
by Eileen J. Garrett
With a Foreword by Rhea A. White

Helix Press New York
Copyright 2007 by Eileen Coly All rights reserved
This book, or any part thereof, must not be reproduced in any form whatsoever without written permission from the Publisher, except for brief quotations in critical articles or reviews.
Published by Helix Press An imprint of the Parapsychology Foundation, Inc. PO Box 1562 New York, New York, 10021, USA
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Printed by BookMasters, Inc. Ashland, Ohio, USA
Cover art designed by Illuminations, Inc. Greenport, New York, USA
ISBN 10:1-931747-22-9 ISBN 13: 978-1-931747-22-6
Table of Contents
Prologue , Lisette Coly
Foreword , Rhea A. White
Preface to the First Editon , Eileen J. Garrett
Preface to the Second Edition , Eileen J. Garrett
I. Consciousness
II. Sleep and Dreams
III. Hypnosis and Suggestion
IV. Dissociation and Awareness
V. The Breath and Color
IV. Healing
VII. Death and Survival
VIII. Symbolism
IX. Perception and Communication
X. The Way Inward
XI. Trance and the Controls
XII. Conclusion
Afterword , Rhea A. White
Epilogue , Lisette Coly
A Selected List of Publications by and about Eileen J. Garrett, Carlos S. Alvarado
Index
Prologue
As the granddaughter of Eileen J. Garrett, author of Awareness I realize full well that she was a highly complex individual who during her lifetime-she was born in l893 and died in 1970-was an author, lecturer, entrepreneur, business executive, publisher, psychic medium and healer as well as the founder of Parapsychology Foundation, the nonprofit organization I currently administer as its Executive Director. Parapsychology Foundation acts as a worldwide forum supporting scientific exploration of psychic phenomena.
Born in Ireland and living in England until she became an American citizen in the l940s, Eileen Garrett, all her life, possessed mediumistic faculties. These so-called gifts included telepathy, clairvoyance, clairaudience, trance mediumship as well as an ability to diagnose illness in a clairvoyant manner, but always in consultation with physicians and psychologists. She was the author of non-fiction books addressing psychic matters including her cogent autobiography, Adventures in the Supernormal, recently brought back into print and available through the Foundation s imprint, Helix Press. She wrote three works of fiction under the nom de plume of Jeanne Lyttle, edited various anthologies in the field of psychic research and published the reknown quarterly review of psychic research, Tomorrow Magazine as well as the scholarly International Journal of Parapsychology that the Foundation is once again proud to publish. Convinced that the study of psychic matters was best served by consideration by many disciplines and as truly an international pursuit, she sponsored many international conferences devoted to parapsychology welcoming academicians and scientists to join in a concentrated effort to find answers to the questions raised by psychic functioning.
My mother, Eileen Coly, Garrett s daughter and current President of Parapsychology Foundation, and I, when asked to try to describe the force of her personality and her beliefs, refer to her own ability to set pen to paper and freely and lucidly organize her own thoughts and experiences in the psychic world which speak eloquently for the Lady herself.
Eileen Coly and I are most grateful that the late Dr. Rhea A. White, our esteemed colleague and long-time PF associate, grantee, author and conference participant not to mention valued personal friend, had graciously shared her comments on and consideration of Garrett s Awareness manuscript for this volume. Grace to her far-reaching and meticulous career, Rhea with her many resources coupled with a personal first-hand knowledge of Eileen J. Garrett, was eminently suited to contribute her reflections of Awareness, for which we are most appreciative.
I am very proud to share with you what I feel to be an extraordinary document of value to humankind. Awareness was written and first published within the crucible of The Second World War in 1943 and then again reprinted with a subsequent Preface by Garrett to the Second Edition released in the l960s.
I would caution that some of the material presented refers obviously to a bygone era but her message remains current, as we lamentably seem to have learned little over the intervening years, mired as we are in unpredictable, hostile and dangerous world events.
We may surely benefit from the timeless message of Awareness a plea for a new evolution of the individual life as envisioned by Eileen J. Garrett.
Lisette Coly Executive Director Parapsychology Foundation New York, March 2007
Foreword
Before Reading Awareness Again After Fifty Years
I read several books by Eileen Garrett when I was at the Parapsychology Laboratory at Duke University in the 1950s. I was enthralled by her books, not for their oh wow value, although there was an element of that. She was a medium of great reknown in the U. S., the U. K., and indeed, throughout the world!
It was not only the subject matter (facets of her life as a psychic and medium, which she described), but she was a mover and shaker in regard to promoting parapsychology as a science. She initiated the Parapsychology Foundation which, since its beginning in the 1950s, has been the leader in bringing together parapsychologists from around the world and scholars from many disciplines. This has greatly broadened and deepened the field and extended its geographic and interdisciplinary boundaries.
The Foundation accomplishes this in several ways: through its international conferences and their published proceedings; through Garrett s books, editorials, and articles; through the Foundation s newsletter and journal; and by giving research and travel grants to researchers, providing financial support for college students interested in parapsychology, and holding lectures open to the public.
Mrs. Garrett, as she was usually referred to, has written some of the best books available about what it feels like to be a psychic and a medium and the far-reaching implications of both. Awareness is one of the best. In rereading this book after fifty years, I was not only greatly impressed all over again after all those years in the field, but I saw more clearly than when I was a newcomer the great value it has for persons who have had any kind of exceptional experience, not only psychic ones. I will elaborate on this in the Afterword at the end of this book.
I also sometimes wondered, as the years passed and I became a seasoned parapsychologist, whether my high regard for Mrs. Garrett may have been partly due to the fact that I had read her books and editorials when I was new to the field. After reading it recently, I now know that was the case. She conveys firsthand knowledge of what it is like to be a psychic and medium better than any one I have read.
I had the privilege of knowing Mrs. Garrett, who could be intimidating on occasion, but who was always interesting. Through her books, articles, and editorials, the knowledge she imparted is still as important for 21st-century readers, including myself, even as it was in the 1950s. In fact, with age and experience, I have come to understand what she wrote and recognize its importance more fully on this later reading than when I was new to the field.
I m confident that those who read this and others of her several books will agree. Her overmastering personality is matched by her wisdom concerning the inside of being psychic because she was so highly aware and conscious of the process involved from her own personal experience. It didn t hurt that she was such a good writer that she was able to convey the details of her life and experiences such that the reader feels inside her head.
Awareness should open inner doors for anyone who reads it, whether it is the first or a subsequent reading.
Rhea A. White New Bern, North Carolina November 2006
Preface to the First Edition
I have decided to publish this book this year because the pressure of world events and the tension of the times have created an extraordinary sensitiveness in the consciousness of millions of men and women, and because this sensitiveness is increasingly being expressed in various forms of inquiry. These inquiries are concerned with the nature and quality of the subtle forces that are operating in the world and affecting the destinies of individuals and nations; they are concerned with the causes and meanings of psychic episodes that are being experienced both in the impersonal concentrations of battle, by men in the armed forces, and by the lay populations in their long and selfless waiting upon the development of events.
These are times of great change, and many people are looking out on the swiftly moving sequence of readjustments in an aborted attempt to discover the source, the nature, and the meaning of the world upheaval. Yet in the long, slow processes of evolution, civilization is the only thing which has changed in any perceptible measure; the current conflict is a man-made condition; and our understanding of its meaning is to be clarified only through a fresh and fuller awareness of our own potentialities and of the effects we create in using them, or in failing to use them. The present climax is a tension which has been evolved by the human consciousness. And we are facing the prospect of a new world because humanity has prepared itself for a more ample way of living, for life more abundant. The seeds of this new amplitude are not planted anywhere in the world outside ourselves, but deep in the nature and the consciousness of mankind.
From my personal point of view, the book has a double purpose. In the first place, it is the result of the re-examination of the field of my own faith. As many people already know, this faith is not simply a t