Description: COLIN WILSON. THE PSYCHIC DETECTIVES: THE STORY OF PSYCHOMETRY AND PARANORMAL CRIME DETECTION. San Francisco: Mercury House Inc. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. 1985 [First British was 1984]. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER "to Susan B Never before And! Colin 86" xxii (22) + 242 pages with Index. Large octavo (9 1/2 by 6 1/2 inch) hardcover with d/j, full yellow cloth boards, titling in black front & spine. Very slightly cocked, o/w FINE CONDITION IN NEAR FINE D/J. Colin Wilson was the celebrated author of THE OUTSIDER and a great number of well-written and popular books on the occult (including a Biography of Aleister Crowley), and regarding various aspects of occult history in the 20th century. Psychometry, which forms the basic subject of the book as used in solving crimes, is where a person of sufficient sensitivity can receive mental impressions, usually I believe of the visual type, of the past history around an object which they touch or hold in their hands. CONTENTS: ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS. FOREWORD. • INTRODUCTION. 1.) TELESCOPE INTO THE PAST. • 2.) THE UNKNOWN GUEST. • 3.) WHITE CROWS AND BLACK SHEEP. • 4.) THE AKASIC RECORDS. • 5.) SPIRITS HIGH AND LOW. • 6.) THE MIND LINK. • 7.) PSYCHIC ARCHAEOLOGY. • 8.) THE ART OF PSYCHIC DETECTION. POSTSCRIPT. BIBLIOGRAPHY. • INDEX OF NAMES. [Keywords english british york rite american freemasonry masonry masonic initiations craft degrees occult occultism moral esoteric philosophy esoterica metaphysics metaphysical religion religious worship [gnostic gnosticism magic magick alchemy alchemical renaissance middle ages mediaeval medieval hermetic philosophy hermetica hermeticism mythology myth occult occultism esoteric esoterica psychoanalysis analytical psychology archetypal archetypes wicca wiccan witchcraft ancient egypt egyptian religion goddess crowley regardie golden dawn oto o.t.o. masonic freemasonry masonry rosicrucianism rosicrucians theosophy theosophical society paganism neo-paganism neopaganism polytheism spiritualism spritism renaissance occult philosophy sorcery jung jungian analytical psychology secret societies conspiracy illuminati gnosis gnosticism] A SIGNED COPY (APPARENTLY WITH A PRIVATE JOKE) OF THIS FASCINATING TITLE BY THE DEAN OF OCCULT LITERATURE.
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