Welcome to Our Paranormal Afterlife.

This is our paranormal afterlife, and I'm your host, Simon Bown.

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This week I'm talking to Irene Blinston about her book,

Gazing into the Afterlife, unlocking the mystery of the psychomancium for healing grief in all its forms.

Irene is an independent researcher who studies the impact and after effects of supernatural and

paranormal experiences with special interest in encounter experiences. She earned a PhD in transpersonal

psychology with specializations in spiritual guidance, creative expression and transpersonal

education and research.

Hi, Irene. Thanks a lot for coming on the podcast. Thanks for having me. I'm glad to be here.

So we're going to be talking about your book. It's called Gazing into the Afterlife,

unlocking the mystery of the psychomantium for healing grief in all its forms. First of all, I've got to ask,

what is a psychomantium? The psychomantium was developed by Dr. Raymond Moody. He is the one who

started the whole near-death experience, NDE. And not only was he a psychiatrist, but he also has a Ph.D. in Greek philosophy, and he was,

he loved the Greeks. He loved Greek philosophy. And he discovered in his readings and during his schooling about a necromanthium is where they took

people underground in order to contact the dead, basically. And so he was really enamored with that,

and he thought, wow, I wonder if we can modify this for something that we could use today.

And so he developed what he named the psychomantium.

And it's basically any, it can be any dark room.

I have a tent-like structure, and that's what we used in our research.

And it is basically sensory deprivation,

so we keep it very quiet, and it's dark, but they can dim a light so that it's just barely light in there. And we let them sit there in a psychomantium where they look into a mirror,

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