Douglas De Long

The deepest roots of spiritual power
Ancient Teachings for Beginners is designed to let you fully develop psychic abilities in a surprisingly short time. By uncovering and distilling the essential teachings and practices of the ancient mystery schools, Douglas De Long has created a step-by-step lesson plan that will allow you to quickly activate your latent inner powers. Learn to:

Open the chakras
Read the human aura
Contact angels and spirit guides
Project the astral body
Delve into past lives

Revealed in these pages are the original teachings of the Enlightened Masters Jesus, Buddha, and Zoroaster, and the secret wisdom of the Egyptian and Atlantean temples. Reclaim your spiritual heritage as you awaken your inner self.

Douglas De Long (Canada) is a past life therapist, chakra master, medical intuitive, counselr, and spiritual teacher. With his wife Carol, he operates the De Long Ancient Mystery School. He is dedicated to helping all people open up and develop their inner psychic and spiritual potential.

Contents

Introduction
1 A brief history of the ancient mystery schools and religions
2 The third eye chakra
3 The crown chakra
4 The human aura
5 Reading and interpreting the human aura
6 The chakra system
7 Kundalini and chakra energy for healing and enlightenment
8 Channeling: Working with your angels and spirit guides
9 Astral projection
10 Reincarnation
11 The Master's last days
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix 3
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index… (meer)

This was a Smashwords freebie...I think it's a great idea for a book, though lacking in depth; there's no attempt to summarize the films whose posters were chosen, no hint of the criteria used in the selection of the posters, and the era covered is pre-World War II meaning that many (most?) modern perusers will be at a loss to know what the heck they're looking at.

Since I got a Fire tablet for Yule *swoon* I am delighted with the quality of the color images. I'm also perfectly ready to use Wikipedia to look up articles about the selected films, though that gets cumbersome since the titles aren't in text form under the posters. The list is at the front of each category.

As an example of what I'm advocating, one poster is for the 1931 pre-Code film Corsair, which (according to the text on the poster) is based on a novel serialized in Liberty Magazine called [Corsair, A Pirate in White Flannels] by one [[Walton Green]]. The film is available on YouTube, stars one Chester Morris and a lady not unknown to me, Thelma Todd, sultry star of pre-Code goodies whose nickname was "Hot Toddy."

The story is incredible today: A high-school grad gets a job on Wall Street, finds it so morally repugnant to be fleecing little old ladies that he quits, becomes a bootlegger in the Prohibition era, and involves his girlfriend in a scheme to pirate the bootleggers's cargos to sell to his own clients.

Hm.

Well, anyway, that's what I wanted...just the hyperlinks and the bones of the story; a little about the poster's main charms would be nice but since I'd be able to look at it on the same page as the text it wouldn't really matter all that much. As it is, I had fun reminiscing about the actors whose names and histories I knew and, occasionally, the film if I'd seen it.

But it coulda been so much more.… (meer)