{"product_id":"revisiting-the-challenging-counterfeit-steve-h-hakes-9781838094638","title":"Revisiting 'The Challenging Counterfeit': Spiritualism and Christianity","description":"Revisiting The Challenging Counterfeit, is an extended review of Raphael Gasson's 'The Challenging Counterfeit' (1966). Raphael was an ethnic Jew whose spiritual journey included many years as a Christian Spiritualist minister. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eToday, when psychic phenomena captures the imagination and the bank accounts of popular media, it is useful to unearth the witness of one who had well worn the T-shirt of a medium with pride, only to bury it in holy ground as a thing of shame and of sorrow and of wasted time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChallengingly, his book exposes what true Spiritualism is. He had nothing but high praise for Spiritualists, and deep condemnation for Spiritualism. For he had discovered true Spiritualism to be itself a fake of true Spirituality, a mere Counterfeit that, in deposing death in the mind, enthroned it in the soul. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCounterfeit phenomena covered include apparitions, Rescue Work and haunted houses, materialisation of pets, psychic healing, Lyceums, clairvoyance, and OOBEs-to name but a few. This book surveys his exposé of Spiritualism's offer of tantalising bait for fish, false food falling short of real food for the soul. Though it takes issue with Raphael on a number of points, his core insights are powerful and timely, helping us to avoid-or escape from-a Challenging Counterfeit, and to discover true spiritual currency.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steve H. Hakes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1838094636\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781838094638\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mallon de Tc\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/07\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 130\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.28d","brand":"Steve H. Hakes","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44058740654335,"sku":"9781838094638","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_20dfe49e-2fc0-4364-8164-e039deb57998.jpg?v=1685054250","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/revisiting-the-challenging-counterfeit-steve-h-hakes-9781838094638","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}