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Category:
Self-Help
Publisher: A.R.E. Press
ISBN-10: 0876044429
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 141
Copyright: Jul 1 2002
You can use scent to help you relax and deepen your meditation experiences. Throughout the span of time, man has used scent as a tool to alter his senses, and tap into the unseen powers of our psychic selves.
Research into the power of scent on the human mind is a small but growing area. But the use of scents to promote physical or mental health or to reach cerntain altered brain states is not new. Its beginnings are so ancient, in fact, that they are lost beyond recorded history.
Edgar Cayce, the famous twentieth-century American claivoyant, also spoke about the use and effects of scents, particularly in enhancing the development of psychic abilities and in spiritual development.
Carly Wall has done extensive research into both the history of the use of scent and the advice on their use from the Cayce readings. The result of her studies is this fascinating, comprehensive, and imminently practical book on using scents to aid you in improving meditation and increasing your psychic abilities. Even more importantly, Wall sets her information in a context of overall spiritual growth, an important concept throughout the Cayce material, which says that psychic development is not to be sought as an end within itself but as a natural result of soul growth.
Excerpt
from Chapter 2: The Perfumed Temple---
In fact, divine inspiration has always been associated with the use of plants or trees. Hindus speak with their gods by kindling a fire with twigs of sacred cedar. The Dainyal or sibyl placed a cloth over her head and inhaled a thick, pungent smoke until seized with convulsions. In Uganda, the priests get inspiration from their gods by smoking a pipe of tobacco until, worked into a frenzy, the gods begin to speak through them. In Madera, an island off Java, the spirit mediums are more often femaile, and they prepare for the reception of the spirt by inhaling fumes of incense, sitting with their heads over a smoking censor. In Hawaii, fragrant flowers were offered to the gods in leis, and that is how the custom of offering flowers to honored guests came about.
Scent is a very inegral part of religious life and ritual. It's safe to say that its use wouldn't have been this extensive or have lasted this long unless there was a good reason behind it. The fact is, scent can work magic for us.
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