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topical index: supernatural

agnosticism

amulet

angel

angel therapy

animism

anthroposophy

argument from design

atheism

atheist bus campaign

automatic writing

avatar

The Bible Code 

blasphemy

Cabala 

Celestine Prophecy

chakra

channeling

chi

Chi Kung (Qi Gong)

Christian ultra-fundamentalism

Course in Miracles

creationism

cult

devadasi

Dianetics

divination

doomsday and doomsday cults

Dominionism

druid

exorcism 

faith

faith healing

fakir

falun gong (falun dafa)

feng shui

fetish

Freemason

geomancy

ghost

glossolalia 

god

Gurdjieff 

haunted house

houri

I Ching

incantation

incorruptible body

inedia

instrumental communication

invocation

Januarius

jinni

jogini

karma

koro 

magical thinking

magick

mahamasadhi

Malachi, St.

miracle

Raymond Moody

near-death experiences

New Thought

Noah's Ark

oracle

orbs

Ouija board

out-of-body experience

pagan

pantheism

papyromancy

pentagram

pious fraud

poltergeist

prana

prayer

Ramtha

reincarnation

Resurrection, The

rods

Sai Baba

saint

Satan

satanic ritual abuse

scientology

shamanism

shroud of Turin

sorcery

soul

spell

spiritualism (spiritism)

stigmata

tantra

Ten Commandments

theist

theosophy

Transcendental Meditation (TM)

transubstantiation

Urantia Book

vastu

victim soul

Watsonville, Our Lady of

Wicca

witches

xenoglossy

young Earth creationists

Zeitoun

zombies & p-zombies

Other Sources

The Secular Web: for theists, agnostics and freethinkers who like to do battle with Biblical religionists 

Cliff Walker's Positive Atheism 

The Atheism Web

Atheist Alliance

James A. Haught's Agnostic Site

International Cultic Studies

Rama Lama Ding Dong Everything you need to know about Frederick Lenz aka Rama

The Indian Skeptic Pages Meet the Anti-Guru 

The Skeptic's Annotated Bible

Islamic Skepticism

Why I Hate the Celestine Prophecy

Scientology-related deaths

The Skeptic Tank 

Recommended Reading

Gardner, Martin. Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1957).

Nickell, Joe. Looking For A Miracle: Weeping Icons, Relics, Stigmata, Visions and Healing Cures (Prometheus Books: Buffalo, N.Y., 1993).

Randi, James. An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural, (N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 1995).

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