Field Guide to the Spirit World

The Science of Angel Power, Discarnate Entities, and Demonic Possession

By: Susan B. Martinez Ph.D. Ph.D., Whitley Strieber - introduction

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.

Critic reviews

“The depth and quality of research exemplified by Susan B. Martinez, Ph.D., in her previous books are evident again in Field Guide to the Spirit World. The spirit world is all around us all the time, and this very helpful book provides a key to the spiritual world and a guide to working with it for the treatment of mental disorders caused by ‘overshadowing.’ As Whitley Strieber says in his foreword, ‘Step out of the prison of materialism in order to see such experiences in ways that might deepen our understanding of ourselves and the amazing universe’--as Strieber demonstrates when he talks about the loss of his wife, Anne, and how that opened his spiritual vision.”

“From all accounts, the world beyond the veil is a labyrinth chock-full of entities both good and ill. With her new book Field Guide to the Spirit World: The Science of Angel Power, Discarnate Entities, and Demonic Possession, Susan B. Martinez has contributed an important work that helps to demystify the other side. It warrants an important place on your Fortean bookshelf and, more importantly, in your hands as you read and learn.”

"When I was initiated into the world of spiritualism, I was taught that protection was the most important thing when contacting disembodied spirits. I was also told that a majority of people in mental institutions might be there because they are “oppressed by negative entities." Now Susan Martinez, who has a doctorate in anthropology from Columbia University, has written this book about encounters in the spirit world that run the whole gamut from selfless helpers to those trapped by their attachment to the material world I am grateful to Susan Martinez for beginning the dialogue in such a knowledgeable and caring way."

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I lost track at 500 Quote unquotes…. It was hard to follow the narration because there were so blasted many quote unquotes that it was distracting. Do you really need to use verbal quotation marks when it is obvious you are quoting someone?

Please, lose the incessant "quote... unquotes"

This ebook could've been at least two (2) hours shorter had the approximately 8,000 "quote... unquote" parts been left out.
The narrator has a voice that I'd listen to for hours on end, but a very good reading has been completely undone by punctuation marks that have no business being read aloud ad nauseum.
Had I not been so interested in the content; I'd have stopped and deleted it long before she got to the five (5) minute mark.

Should've been entitled: QUOTE Field Guide to the Spirit World UNQUOTE.
If you value your sanity, buy and read the this book yourself.
CRINGE-WORTHY.

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I HATE this audiobook, I am going to ask for my money back, which is quote really sad unquote because the book itself is probably fantastic

Worst Book I've gotten on audible lately.

The narration on this book is garbage "Quote/End Quote" all the way through this thing. I read all sorts of books on the metaphysical and this is the worst, most disappointing one I can remember in recent times. I spent $15 on this and I want my money back. I definitely have buyers remorse on this title!! Save yourself the money - get something else.

Her theories on reincarnation are totally ridiculous!!

Her chapter on reincarnation is totally ridiculous and that alone made me scrap the book, there are literally thousands and thousands of case studies on this subject that prove otherwise that don’t involve egomaniac reasons for reincarnation theories. Ian Stevensons book, 20 cases of reincarnation is one of many books on this.
I did like her comparisons of serial killers similarities.
Other than that this is total fiction.