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topical index: paranormal

A
akashic record
anomalous cognition
anomalous perturbation
apport
astral body
astral projection
aura
aura therapy
B
Backster effect
Bermuda Triangle
bio-ching
"blue sense"
Bridey Murphy
C
Camp Chesterfield
cartomancy
Carlos Castaneda
Edgar Cayce 
charm
Char Margolis
clairaudience
clairvoyance
Aleister Crowley
crystal power
crystal skull
curse-missing
D
deport
dermo-optical perception 
decline effect
displacement
divination
Jeane Dixon 
dowsing
Dragon's Triangle
E
ectoplasm
ehf (extraordinary human function)
ESP
evil eye
experimenter effect
G
ganzfeld experiment
Geller, Uri
global consciousness
H
hundredth monkey phenomenon
hypnagogic state
hypnopompic state
I
instrumental communication
intuitive
K
Kabbalarian Philosophy 
Kirlian photography
L
levitation
ley lines
Lily Dale
M
magical thinking
Margolis, Char
medium
mentalist
Raymond Moody
N
Nostradamus
numerology
O
occult & occultism
optional starting and stopping
orbs
Ouija board
P
palmistry
paranormal
paranormal investigator
parapsychology
past life regression
philosopher’s stone
Piper, Leonora
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 staring effect
psychic surgery
psychokinesis
psychometry
Q
quantum hologram
R
The Randi Paranormal Challenge
remote viewing
retroactive clairvoyance
retrocognition
rods
runes
S
Scallion, Gordon-Michael
Schneider brothers
scrying
sealed envelope tricks
séance
sensory leakage
shotgunning
shyness effect
slate writing
staring effect
stichomancy
sympathetic magic
T
talisman
Tanner, Amy
tarot
Tart, Charles  
telekinesis
telepathy
true-believer syndrome
V
Van Praagh, James
vitalism
W
Worth, Patience
Z
Zener ESP cards

Last updated 11-Mar-2015

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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