• Spiritual Masters, Gods, and Goddesses
• Using the Source to Pierce the Veil
Chapter 9: Occult Tools of the Trade for Spiritual Empowerment, Ritual, and Psychic Protection
• What Weakens the Auric Field
• What Strengthens the Auric Field
• Spiritual Tools for Blessing and Protection
• House Blessings and Clearings
• Supernatural Powers and Protection in Southern Folklore
Chapter 10: Prayer Practices through Petitions and Invocations
• Petitions: Prayer Work from a Southern Folk Wisdom Perspective
• Invocation for Spiritual Cleansing and Protection (full, unedited version)
• Invocation for the Blessing of an Altar
• Invocation for the Blessing of the Ancestors
• Invocation for the Release and Deliverance of a Lost Soul
• Invocation to Banish Evil and Demonic Influence
Chapter 11: Final Notes on the Supernatural
Acknowledgments
First and foremost, I want to thank my guardian angels at Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E. for their creative magic, love, and support: Jennie Taylor Martin, Cassie McQuagge, Susan Lendvay, and Mary Warren Pinnell—I love you!
To my partner and soul mate, Robin Branscum: you amaze me every day with the love and support you give me. You are the Divine’s greatest gift in my life.
To Carol Johnson: a lifelong friend, and an amazing assistant, what would I do without you?
To my spiritual Mother and dear friend, Helen Reddy: I’m blessed by your love and friendship.
To Rosemary Ellen Guiley: thank you for helping me lift the veil even more and for guiding me on how to soften my soapbox with certain psychic avenues. Your supernatural blessing is a true honor and gift in my life. I love you very much!
To Momma Starr and Orion Foxwood: you don’t know how much you have graced my life with your writings and your wisdom. My remembrance of and my reconnection with my ancestral power happened because of you.
To Rhonda Burton, founder of Arkansas Ghost Catchers: your friendship is so important in my life, and your work with the Paranormal Realm is essential. Keep the light going, girlfriend!
And to my readers, clients, and fans all over the world: you folks rock! I love you.
Foreword
Foreword by Rosemary Ellen Guiley
There are three ways that people are inspired to probe into the paranormal and metaphysical realms. One is having an awareness of the unseen from earliest memories. Darrin W. Owens is such a person, born with a gift to see and experience beings and phenomena that pass by most people.
The second is through having a personal experience that one cannot explain rationally according to what is considered “ordinary reality.” Often these experiences rock a person’s world and even turn it upside down, blowing away all preconceived beliefs. Many people are drawn into the field in this manner.
The third is curiosity that has been piqued by television, films, books—our pop-culture—and the experiences of those we know.
In all three cases, when people are motivated to a new search for truth, they need solid information to help them find their way. In Mysteries of the Supernatural: A Psychic’s Guide beyond the Veil, Darrin has written one of the finest guides to date for the spiritual seeker, the curious, and the experienced explorers of other realms. He covers every base important to the quest, whether it is pursuit of paranormal phenomena or experiences with the dead and with beings in other realms. Even more important, he tackles the dark side as well as the light side.
In my own thirty-plus years of researching and investigating the paranormal and metaphysical fields, I have always advocated getting a grounding in as many subjects as possible. Like Darrin, I had experiences from an early age, which I took for granted as reality for everyone. As I got older, I soon realized that awareness of non-physical realities are not readily available to all, and that experiences have common ground but a great deal of personalized subjectivity