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Irving Finkel, PhD, is Senior Assistant Keeper of ancient Mesopotamian script, languages, and cultures at the British Museum. He is the curator in charge of cuneiform inscriptions on tablets of clay from ancient Mesopotamia, of which the Middle East Department has the largest collection of any modern museum. He is author of several books, including, The First Ghosts: Most Ancient of Legacies, The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood, The Lewis of Chessman and What Happened to Them, and The Last Resort Library. The British Museum website is . Irving Finkel shares the magical literature found in ancient Mesopotamia on tablets of clay with cuneiform writing in 2,500 B.C. that brings to life how the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians operated with primarily benevolent forces to nullify evil, drive out demons and ghosts, and navigate witches and wizards. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:02:12 Gods and the exorcist 00:11:35 Healing doctor 00:18:40 Evil magic 00:29:31 Fortune-telling 00:41:18 Divination 00:52:25 Magic words 01:01:13 Witchcraft 01:14:22 Dreams 01:19:19 Conclusion New Thinking Allowed CoHost, Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L, is a licensed occupational therapist, intuitive healer, and health coach based in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is the author of Intuitive Development: How to Trust Your Inner Knowing for Guidance With Relationships, Health, and Spirituality. Her website is (Recorded on March 8, 2024) For a short video on How to Get the Most From New Thinking Allowed, go to Check out our new website for the New Thinking Allowed Foundation at . There you will find our incredible, searchable database as well as our new, FREE QUARTERLY MAGAZINE. Also, opportunities to shop and to support our video productions. There, you can also subscribe to our FREE, WEEKLY NEWSLETTER! For a complete, updated list with links to all of our videos, see Check out New Thinking Allowed's AI chatbot. You can create a free account at When you enter the space, you will see that our chatbot is one of several you can interact with. While it is still a work in progress, it has been trained on 1,600 NTA transcripts. It can provide intelligent answers about the contents of our interviews. It's almost like having a conversation with Jeffrey Mishlove. To buy a high-quality, printed version of the New Thinking Allowed Magazine, go to join the NTA Psi Experience Community on Facebook, see To download and listen to audio versions of the New Thinking Allowed videos, visit our podcast at Download and read Jeffrey Mishlove's Grand Prize essay in the Bigelow Institute competition, Beyond the Brain: The Survival of Human Consciousness After Permanent Bodily Death. If you would like to join our team of volunteers, helping to promote the New Thinking Allowed YouTube channel on social media, editing and translating videos, creating short video trailers based on our interviews, helping to upgrade our website, or contributing in other ways (we may not even have thought of), please send an email to friends@. You can help support our ongoing video productions while enjoying a good book. To order a copy of New Thinking Allowed Dialogues: Is There Life After Death? click on (As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.) To order Intuitive Development: How to Trust Your Inner Knowing for Guidance With Relationships, Health, and Spirituality by Emmy Vadnais, click here: To order The First Ghosts by Irving Finkel, go to: To order The Lewis Chessman and What Happened to Them, go to:
