The Great Apparitions of Mary  by Ingo Swann

An Examination of the Twenty-Two Supranormal Appearances

The Crossroad Publishing Company    New York    1999

Scarce.  White pictorial wraps, lt. corner, edge wear.  Pages very good, clean, no writing; title page corner name clipped.  Intriguing cover painting by Ingo Swann depicting Mother Mary clutching at her breasts while solemnly looking down upon earth and image of nuclear detonation, w/galactic swirl and five stars forming cross in b.g.   

In this examination, Ingo Swann, a respected scientific investigator writes an objective in-depth account of the most outstanding and momentous appearances of Mary.   The great apparitions of Mary, starting with Guadalupe in 1531, occur with a steady and increasing drumbeat across the decades and centuries.  The places and the principals involved change, but the messages calling people to turn from lives of violence and sin and to seek repentance are remarkably similar.  By focusing on the most widely known and documented appearances and presenting them in chronological order, the power of the events and the messages emerge in a powerful way.

Swann shows how advances in science have placed the apparitions in a more intriguing light. One of the historic challenges concerning them was how could something which was not there be there in a way that registered on the eye mechanisms?  The discovery of holography, where images that appear to be three-dimensional, having bulk, shape and mass, can be photographed, have provided an analogy that enlarges our perception of the physical laws and challenges the skeptics' verdict of hallucination.  Includes bibliography.   8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.  239 pages.   Insured post.