Spiritual encounters with unusual light phenomena : lightforms / Mark Fox.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fox, Mark, 1962-

Series:

Religion, education, and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Light--Religious aspects.

Light.

Experience (Religion).

Physical Description:

203 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2008.

Summary:

Spiritual Encounters with Unusual Light Phenomena: Lightforms is a study of unusual light phenomena based on almost four hundred unpublished accounts of modern-day encounters with strange lights.

With echoes within the popular field of spiritual, religious and paranormal experience this book explores lights encountered during angelic experiences, near-death experiences and after-death communications. But it goes beyond this in attempting to show that experiences of such unusual lights are cross-cultural, trans-historical and widely reported in the present day.

By drawing on a large number of vivid, previously unpublished and dramatic testimonies this book demonstrates that to a remarkable degree experiences of light phenomena share a common core - typically manifested at times of crisis, overwhelmingly benign and loving, often resulting in 'turning-points' towards new spiritual and creative directions in the lives of those who experience them.

Contents:

Lightforms - a mystery posed 1

1 A sacred 'something': the spiritual odyssey of Sir Alister Hardy 11

2 Visions, awakenings and illuminations: unusual lights across cultures 34

3 Sharing the fire: unusual lights with multiple witnesses 57

4 A light when alone: solitary experiences of unusual light 78

5 Enfolded and infused: unusual lights that embrace and fill 94

6 Transformations and auras: strange illuminations of landscapes and people 114

7 Shining in the darkness: lights seen during near-death experiences 125

8 Out of this world? Visionary encounters with light 143

9 Beams, rays, shafts: penetrations by light 155

10 Brighter than the sun: flashes of light 163

11 Throwing light on lightforms - a mystery solved 169.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [198]-200) and index.

ISBN:

9780708321577

0708321577

OCLC:

225876154