Topic: The Magickal Web

The Exopolitics Institute announces an Earth Transformation Conference that builds upon its successful Extraterrestrial Civilizations and World Peace Conference on the Big Island of Hawaii in June 2006, that included former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada, The Hon. Paul Hellyer. Paul Hellyer said at his keynote conference address that: “Not only has the alien secret been closely guarded, it has been ruthlessly enforced.” Mr Hellyer concluded with a penetrating set of questions for the audience: “Who is actually running the United States of America and other major western countries? What are the consequences of long-term cover-up of extraterrestrial intelligence and advanced technology? Isn’t it long-since time that truth trumped official secrecy? And, what are we going to do about it?” A transcript is available from Exopolitics Journal.

TO the people of his day Harry Price was "the Psychic Detective", daring to investigate hauntings and rituals to try to sort the fact from the fraud.

With financial backing from judges and notable scientists of the time, he founded an institute devoted to psychic research, and was credited with uncovering countless hoaxes.

Women have fared very badly indeed in religions throughout history, is the short answer. Most large-scale religions, like most aspects of human culture, have been run by men, who have often used them to control and suppress women, in order to make sure that the sons who inherited their stuff were really their sons.

In the dark of the night, a mixed group of teenage boys and girls huddle together in a circle inside a secluded cemetery, holding hands and chanting invocations to Satan.

In the centre of the huddle is the skull of a monkey or a dog with the inscription “natas si dog” which in reverse reads “God is Satan."

Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama Wednesday said he was against all forms of severe punishment like death by hanging and criticised the execution of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.

A suburban Atlanta mother who claims Harry Potter books teach children witchcraft said Wednesday she will appeal the state's decision to keep the best-selling books in Gwinnett County school libraries.

Snake-charmers make the snakes dance. But he makes the peacocks, snakes and mongoose dance together. He is not a yogi or a miracle man at all, nor does he believe in the miracles as such.

Ouija boards, tarot cards and horoscopes are all ancient methods of divination that are still popular today. But finding someone to talk to about them can be rather difficult.

Religion and science can combine to create some thorny questions: Does God exist outside the human mind, or is God a creation of our brains? Why do we have faith in things that we cannot prove, whether it's the afterlife or UFOs?

A profusion of steeples, spires and crosses reach for the sky in McMinnville, but these symbols of our nation's dominant Christian faith do not reflect the full range of spirituality among the county's population.