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topical index: paranormal

Akashic record

anomalous cognition

anomalous perturbation

apport

astral body

astral projection

aura

aura therapy

Backster effect

Bermuda Triangle

bio-ching

"blue sense"

Bridey Murphy

Camp Chesterfield

cartomancy

Carlos Castaneda

Edgar Cayce 

charm

clairaudience

clairvoyance

Aleister Crowley

crystal power

crystal skull

curse-missing

deport

dermo-optical perception 

decline effect

displacement

divination

Jeane Dixon 

dowsing

ectoplasm

ehf (extraordinary human function)

ESP

evil eye

experimenter effect

ganzfeld experiment

Geller, Uri

global consciousness

hundredth monkey phenomenon

hypnagogic state

hypnopompic state

instrumental communication

intuitive

Kabbalarian Philosophy 

Kirlian photography

levitation

ley lines

Lily Dale

magical thinking

medium

mentalist

Mitchell, Edgar (psi experiment on Apollo 14)

Raymond Moody

Nostradamus

numerology

occult & occultism

optional starting and stopping

orbs

Ouija board

palmistry

paranormal

parapsychology

past life regression

philosopher’s stone

plant perception

precognition

presentiment

Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR)

psi

psi assumption

psi-focus assumption

psi-conducive state

psi-focus assumption

psi-missing

psychic

psychic detective

psychic drift

psychic photography

psychic surgery

psychokinesis

psychometry

quantum hologram

The Randi Paranormal Challenge

remote viewing

retroactive clairvoyance

retrocognition

rods

runes

Scallion, Gordon-Michael

scrying

séance

sensory leakage

shotgunning

shyness effect

stichomancy

sympathetic magic

talisman

tarot

Charles Tart 

telekinesis

telepathy

true-believer syndrome

Van Praagh, James

vitalism

Zener ESP cards

Recommended Reading

Christopher,Milbourne. ESP, Seers & Psychics (Thomas Y. Crowell Co. 1970).

Blackmore, Susan J. In Search of the Light: The Adventures of a Parapsychologist, (Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1986).

Gauld, A. (1968). The Founders of Psychical Research. Schocken Books.

Hyman, Ray. The Elusive Quarry : a Scientific Appraisal of Psychical Research (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1989).

Keene, M. Lamar. The Psychic Mafia (Prometheus, 1997).

Kurtz, Paul. editor, A Skeptic's Handbook of Parapsychology,   (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1985).

Mauskopf, S.H. and McVaugh, M.R. (1980).  The Elusive Science: Origins of Experimental Psychical Research. Johns Hopkins University Press.

Sagan, Carl. The Demon-Haunted World - Science as a Candle in the Dark (New York: Random House, 1995).

Stein, Gordon. editor, The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1996).

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