The Spirits

The theme of this book is: The end is near. It is time to repent. Pray for all your relatives and friends to be saved. My Mom, Frances Voth, and I, (Shari Flusche) were called to pray and became prayer partners. In our growth of faith, God revealed to us how praying for people who have died can miraculously take away punishment due to their sins and catapult them into the Glory of God. Spiritual communication, a gift of God, is revealed in this book. Communications include spiritual inspiration from: Elvis Presley, Steve Ervin, Johnny Cash, Jesse James, Tammy Wynette, and Sadaam Hussein.

“Noyes makes history accessible and irresistible . . . Excellent.”* A century ago, the curious idea that spirits not only survive death but can be contacted on the “other side” was widespread. Psychic mediums led countless séances, claiming to connect the grieving with their lost relations through everything from frenzied trance writing to sticky expulsions of ectoplasm. The craze caught Harry Houdini’s attention. Well-known by then as most renowned magician and escape artist, he began to investigate these spiritual phenomena. Are ghosts real? Can we communicate with them? Catch them in photographs? Or are all mediums “flim-flammers,” employing tricks and illusions like Houdini himself? Peopled with odd and fascinating characters, Houdini’s gripping quest will excite readers’ universal wonderment with life, death, and the possibility of the Beyond. *School Library Journal, starred review of Ten Days a Madwoman

For three thousand years, Terrapin Xon was sealed from the rest of the world by the Thanatos Mountains. Lashtar maintains a watch over the only pass that winds through the range with the North Wall and the Outpost. The boredom is relived with fighting off the occasional Underdweller, bandits, or mad wizards. When Terrapin Xon flows from the pass, they roll over the Outpost and descend on the impregnable North Wall with fighters, mages, and creatures from legends. Lashtar’s defense is overwhelmed. Then, against all military wisdom, Terrapin Xon keeps only a small force at the conquered crossroads, leaving their flanks and rear vulnerable. They drive for the city of Wintermist and the Mage School. Only the young wizard Anton and Duncan of Pentock can save the people and the Spirits of Wintermist before the king of Terrapin Xon releases the wraiths. Before these young men can bring their respective forces together, they must overcome their own personal demons. The wizard and fighter must gather entities from differing generations, skills, and cultures. They must form a unity and defy the prophecy of the Northland. They must turn back the invading force of Terrapin Xon before a legion can be unleashed.

In the conclusion to the trilogy set in post-apocalyptic England, Luke returns a triumphant Prince from his expedition in the North, although he loses the three things he cares about most.

- Xlibris Podcast Part 1: http://www.xlibrispodcasts.com/the-battle-for-the-spirits-of-mankind-1/ - Xlibris Podcast Part 2: http://www.xlibrispodcasts.com/the-battle-for-the-spirits-of-mankind-2/ - Xlibris Podcast Part 3: http://www.xlibrispodcasts.com/the-battle-for-the-spirits-of-mankind-3/ - Xlibris Podcast Part 4: http://www.xlibrispodcasts.com/the-battle-for-the-spirits-of-mankind-4/ - Xlibris Podcast Part 5: http://www.xlibrispodcasts.com/the-battle-for-the-spirits-of-mankind-5/

Focuses on the problem of communication with the other world: the phenomenon of spirit possession and its changing historical interpretations, the imaginary schemes elaborated for giving accounts of the journeys to the other world, for communicating with the dead, and finally the historical archetypes of this kind of religious manifestation—trance prophecy, divination, and shamanism.Recognized historians and ethnologists analyze the relationship, coexistence and conflicts of popular belief systems, Judeo-Christian mythology and demonology in medieval and modern Europe. The essays address links between rites and beliefs, folklore and literature; the legacy of various pre-Christian mythologies; the syncretic forms of ancient, medieval and modern belief- and rite-systems; "pure" examples from religious-ethnological research outside Europe to elucidate European problems.