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Discover a pathway to healing and reconnecting with your loved ones. Through a guided process using a modern version of an ancient Greek practice known as a psychomanteum, you’ll be gently supported in reconnecting with your loved one in spirit and restoring your inner peace.
Discover a pathway to healing and reconnecting with your loved ones. Through a guided process using a modern version of an ancient Greek practice known as a psychomanteum, you’ll be gently supported in reconnecting with your loved one in spirit and restoring your inner peace.
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Gazing into the Afterlife:
Unlocking the Mystery of the Psychomanteum for Healing Grief in All Its Forms
A transformative guide to healing grief through sacred contact and intuitive awareness. This book offers insight and reflection for both the grieving and those who serve them on their path to wholeness.
Training for those wishing to facilitate healing and connection. Receive spiritual and intuitive training designed for grief counselors, therapists, and energy practitioners. Learn how to ethically and compassionately guide others through grief healing and spiritual reconnection.
A transformative guide to healing grief through sacred contact and intuitive awareness. This book offers insight, reflection, and practices for both the grieving and those who serve them on their path to wholeness. (coming soon)
Mention of a ritual process for contacting the dead can be found in the writings of the ancient Greeks.
The writings described how individuals were guided through subterranean chambers over a series of several days, and finally taken into an area, a "necromanteum," containing what is believed to have been a large cauldron-type vessel.
Water or oil filled the vessel providing a reflective surface for the initiated individual to contact the dead. Dr. Raymond Moody modified this process to fit more in the modern day.
He coined the term "psychomanteum." Dr. Irene Blinston expanded and modified Dr. Moody's psychomanteum, and psychomanteum process, developing "The Portal," although she no longer provides Portal services.
Mention of a ritual process for contacting the dead can be found in the writings of the ancient Greeks.
The writings described how individuals were guided through subterranean chambers over a series of several days, and finally taken into an area, a "necromanteum," containing what is believed to have been a large cauldron-type vessel.
Water or oil filled the vessel providing a reflective surface for the initiated individual to contact the dead. Dr. Raymond Moody modified this process to fit more in the modern day.
He coined the term "psychomanteum." Dr. Irene Blinston expanded and modified Dr. Moody's psychomanteum, and psychomanteum process, developing "The Portal," although she no longer provides Portal services.
The Portal is a very dark, dimly lit chamber varying in size.
At one end of the chamber is a chair and at the other end a mirror. The mirror is tilted at an angle so the sitter is prevented from seeing his or her own reflection. The special mirror is the true portal.
Very little published research is available concerning the psychomanteum process. Dr. Moody focused his study on contact made by means of apparitional encounters experienced during his psychomanteum process.
The psychomanteum research conducted at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto, CA, focused its efforts on the reduction of the symptoms of grief. Dr. Blinston was a part of that research unit for 3 years.
Very little published research is available concerning the psychomanteum process. Dr. Moody focused his study on contact made by means of apparitional encounters experienced during his psychomanteum process.
The psychomanteum research conducted at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto, CA, has focused its efforts on the reduction of the symptoms of grief. Dr. Blinston was a part of that research unit for 3 years.
Currently there are two doctoral students conducting research
on different aspects of the psychomanteum.
The primary focus of research of the psychomanteum team at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology was the psychomanteum's effects on the reduction of the symptoms of grief associated with a lost loved one.
However, there are many possible uses for the Portal (psychomanteum).
The possible uses include:
The primary focus of research of the psychomanteum team at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology was the psychomanteum's effects on the reduction of the symptoms of grief associated with a lost loved one.
However, there are many possible uses for the Portal (psychomanteum).
The possible uses include:
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