Field Guide to the Spirit World: The Science of Angel Power, Discarnate Entities, and Demonic Possession

Written by Susan B. Martinez and Whitley Strieber

Narrated by Robin Douglas

A comprehensive examination of the many ways the spirit world affects our minds and the material plane

• Provides a detailed guide to the Afterlife and its inhabitants

• Reveals the spirit influence behind many mental disorders as well as psi abilities and creative genius

• Includes checklists of symptoms of spirit “overshadowing,” methods from the world’s top exorcists, and instructions on how to free unwanted spirits from the material plane

We are spirits housed in a body, and just as houses can be haunted, so can people. When the living succumb to dissociative states of consciousness, they become a magnet for lost but clinging spirits. Known as jinn, dybbuk, daemon, wuqabi, or simply the undead, they hover unseen on the earth plane, ready to inhabit the most suitable body available.

Documenting the life of wandering spirits and their impact on vulnerable human targets, Susan Martinez offers a radical departure from the standard psychological explanations for a host of pathological behaviors--including multiple personality, autism, epilepsy, migraines, obsessive compulsive disorder, depression, schizophrenia, anxiety, PTSD, self-destructive urges, and strange outbursts--and reveals that hallucinations are often true impressions of spirit input. Martinez explains how mental health comes down to the delicate balance between self-control and spirit-control. When trauma triggers an escape response, the soul takes flight, leaving the mind susceptible to possession by discarnate entities. However, the spirit world can also bestow gifts upon those whose psyches are open, such as in the case of mediums, shamans, people who communicate with angels, and many of the world’s creative geniuses.

Martinez presents “overshadowing” by spirits as a universal, cross-cultural phenomenon, documenting modern and traditional accounts as well as corroborating indigenous beliefs. She examines soul decay, soul travel both before and after death, as well as how knowledge of the spirit world can offer positive treatments for disorders like schizophrenia and autism. Providing a detailed guide to the spirit world and its inhabitants, the author offers checklists of symptoms of “overshadowing,” methods from the world’s top exorcists, and instructions on how to free spirits so they can continue their journey into the beyond--all the tools necessary to forearm us against soul snatchers and other enemies of the Light.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Inner Traditions Audio
• Release date: Apr 9, 2019
• ISBN: 9781644110027

Susan B. Martinez

Susan B. Martinez, Ph.D., is a writer, linguist, teacher, paranormal researcher, and recognized authority on the Oahspe Bible with a doctorate in anthropology from Columbia University. The author of Delusions in Science and Spirituality, Time of the Quickening, The Lost History of the Little People and The Mysterious Origins of Hybrid Man, she lives in Clayton, Georgia.

Reviews for Field Guide to the Spirit World

[Austin · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

The book is slightly frustrating. It reads like an episode of Cold Case Files. Not very insightful for spiritual seekers, but definitely interesting if you are part of the bandwagon that is obsessed with the minds serial killers. The book essentially explains the author's personal beliefs about how traumatic childhood events can lead to possession by negative spirits which can lead to psychopathy. The book is full of meaningless negative occult energy, and offers very little to the reader in the form of guidance or protection from possession. If you want practical occult guidance in relation to spirits and entities, go read the works of Dion Fortune instead. This author disparages the accuracy of information gained through channeling, then quotes channeled material non stop as if it were scripture. In fact very little of the information in this book comes from the author at all. 95% of the book are quotes from random sources. I would only recommend this book if you are over-interested in the topic of demonic possession. This is not the source with which to build your spiritual beliefs.

[Bradley Bouldin · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

This author's obvious personal biases call into question everything she has to say. She is quick to be rudely dismissive of viewpoints differing from her own and equally quick to jump on anything someone claims that supports her position---confirmation bias, anyone? She couches the views of others as ridiculous, misstates the views of others, and constantly presents complex questions as false dichotomies. The hours spent on this book are hours I will count as wasted.