Palmistry by Johnny Fincham (“Britain’s leading palmist”) provides fresh information for anyone interested in reading palms.

The subtitle is accurate: Apprentice to Pro in 24 Hours; The Easiest Palmistry Course Ever Written.

However, this book is the real deal.  The “24 hours” means 24 hours of lessons, each covered in detail in this book.  Unless you’re a fast reader (and learner) and breeze through this book (not advised), you won’t learn it all overnight.

The author’s advice is excellent.  Early into your studies, he’ll tell you to skip the things that don’t make the person unique.  That’s brilliant.

Another important feature of this book:  The author uses actual palm prints — not vague sketches that leave you wondering — so you’re always confident about your readings.

The accuracy of the readings will astonish you.  These aren’t the general comments many palmists offer, such as “You’ve faced many challenges, and some still bother you.”

Instead, the author shows things such as exactly where jealousy shows up in a person’s palm, and whether it’s severe enough to cause relationship problems.

At a glance, you’ll be able to separate introverts from adventurous people, and — from a single fingerprint — tell someone pragmatic from another who’s constantly challenged by indecision.

This book makes palmistry simple to learn, and the book is paced with humor, clear illustrations, and self-tests so you can move through the lessons with confidence.

From spirituality to sexuality, and from home to career, people’s hands reveal far more about their characters (and potential for happiness) than they realize.

If you’d like to include palmistry in your readings or professional practice, this book is a must-own.  It’s easily the best book we’ve seen in this field, and the only one we can enthusiastically recommend.

However, it’s also an ideal book for people who are simply curious, and want to understand people better.

The next time someone extends his or her hand in welcome, a quick glance may tell you everything you need to know about their passion for life and whether they’re trustworthy.

That’s a skill and knowledge that everyone can use.

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Psychic Self Defense and Protection: An Energy Awareness Guide, by John Culbertson is a very helpful, detailed book mixing New Age beliefs and practices with Christian and Pagan counterparts.

For New Age practitioners, those other ingredients shouldn’t deter you from enjoying this book and learning new, useful skills from it. At least 90% of the book works well with most New Age philosophies, and many readers will be fine with everything presented in this book.

For anyone in desperate need of psychic self-defense or protection, this book is a must-read.

The author is both a Mason and a Rosicrucian.  Both provide some extremely powerful — and sometimes controversial — tools for energy work.  All but the most uninformed spiritual dabblers respect those two organizations and what they’re able to accomplish.

In addition, the author is bright. His research backs up his claims with facts and statistics.  So, this isn’t a heavy-handed manual; it’s intelligently presented, and generally in light terms with occasional recommendations for further  study.

However, though most of this book aligns well with all aspects of New Age beliefs, this is definitely not a lightweight, “think happy thoughts” book.  It gives readers many intensely powerful solutions to psychic attacks.

Early chapters are gentle but firm.  I especially like the chapter, “Repairing a Weak Aura and Rebuilding Lost Energy.”

If you’re looking for psychic protection, “just in case,” this is the information you seek, and it may be all that you need from this book.

In the chapters that follow, the author gradually builds your arsenal of tools to protect yourself and those you care about.  His resources range from angels to elemental energy to concepts well-presented in the Celestine Prophecy.

By the time you complete Chapter 7, you probably have all the information you need to protect yourself and people (and pets) close to you.

If you’re timid about Rosicrucian and Pagan issues:  The author doesn’t breach the topic of magick until the second-to-last chapter in this book.  However, if — before Chapter 8 — you haven’t found anything powerful enough to help, you may need the extra muscle of magickal tools.

Remember: Survival is your first priority when you’re dealing with severe attacks.

There’s nothing unethical in this book.  You may even recognize some of the attitudes in Chapters 8 and 9,  if your beliefs are based in Arthurian or Celtic history.

For everyone else, especially sensitive New Age readers, you can safely close the book at the start of Chapter 8, with enough less controversial tools to protect and defend themselves from psychic and spiritual attacks.

This book has earned our respect as an important contribution to the field of psychic self defense and protection.

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