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PRACTICAL

MIND-READING By

WILLIAM

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Practical and PsycKomancy Crystal Gazing By WILLIAM

A

WALKER

Series

Eleven

of

of

nomens

Lessons

Distant

Psychometry,

principles

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by How

to

the

on

Psychic; Phe-

Sensing, Clairvoyance, Crystal Gazing, etc.

SYNOPSIS

PARTIAL Scientific

ATKINSON

OF

underlying

CONTENTS:

Psychomancy,

Sensing

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Projection of the Astral Body. centration. ConYourself. Methods. Develop Development Visualization. How the to use Psychometry. Astral

Senses.

General Instruction. Crystal and Mirror. ing Seeand their difference. Simple and Space Psychomancy Earth. Solid Into the Objects. Seeing Down Through Diagnosis of Disease by Psychomancy. The

Astral

Tube.

Psychometry.

Five

Various

of

forms

Methods. Directions

Crystal Gazing.

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to

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