Category: Miscellaneous

Nicolas Camille Flammarion (1842–1925] was a French astronomer and pioneer of science fiction writing. Flammarion was fascinated by the paranormal and the possibility of life…

Also known as skin reading and dermo-optics, this quite literally means seeing images and colours through the skin. Eyeless vision is said to work best…

A term used in laboratory tests for psi to describe the unconscious psychic influence or bias of the experimenter on the subject. The effect may…

Term used to refer to the two days each year, one in spring (usually around 20 to 23 March) and one in autumn (usually around…

The Crewe Circle was a group of spirit photographers based in Crewe, England, in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Led by William Hope,…

The system of occult philosophy and practice created by English artist and magician Austin Osman Spare (1886–1956), and borrowed from his writings by chaos magicians…

A youth movement with significant pagan elements, Woodcraft was founded by Canadian-American nature writer Ernest Thompson Seton (1860–1946) in 1902, at his home in Cos…

In a 1947 article in the American pulp magazine Astounding Science Fiction, rocket engineer Willy Ley mentioned a small group active in Berlin during the…

A system of medieval courts in the old German duchy of Westphalia, east of the Rhine, the Vehmgerichte or “Vehm Courts” traditionally traced their origin…

In 1999, astrologer David Ovason’s bestselling book The Secret Architecture of Our Nation’s Capital proposed that a hidden pattern based on astrology and occult symbolism…