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href="bridey.html">Bridey Murphy</a><br /> <a name="C">C</a><br /> <a letter="C" href="chesterfield.htm">Camp Chesterfield</a><br /> <a letter="A" href="cartoma.html">cartomancy</a><br /> <a letter="C" href="castaneda.html">Carlos Castaneda</a><br /> <a letter="C" href="cayce.html">Edgar Cayce</a> <br /> <a letter="C" href="charm.html">charm</a><br /> <a letter="C" href="margolis.html">Char Margolis</a><br /> <a letter="C" href="clairaudio.html">clairaudience</a><br /> <a letter="C" href="clairvoy.html">clairvoyance</a><br /> <a letter="C" href="crowley.html">Aleister Crowley</a><br /> <a letter="C" href="crystals.html">crystal power</a><br /> <a letter="C" href="crystalskull.html">crystal skull</a><br /> <a letter="C" href="cursemissing.html">curse-missing</a><br /> <a name="D">D</a><br /> <a letter="D" href="deport.html">deport</a><br /> <a letter="D" href="dop.html">dermo-optical perception</a> <br /> <a letter="D" href="declineeffect.html">decline effect</a><br /> <a letter="D" 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face="Arial" size="3">Recommended Reading</font></b></h3> <p style="text-align: left"> <font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0690268157/roberttoddcarrolA/"> Christopher,Milbourne. <i>ESP, Seers & Psychics </i>(Thomas Y. Crowell Co. 1970).</a></font></p> <p style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial" size="3"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1573920614/roberttoddcarrolA/">Blackmore, Susan J. <i>In Search of the Light: The Adventures of a Parapsychologist</i>, (Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1986).</a></font></p> <p style="text-align: left"> <font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0805230769/roberttoddcarrolA/"> Gauld, A. (1968). <i>The Founders of Psychical Research.</i> Schocken Books.</a></font></p> <p style="text-align: left"> <font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0879755040/roberttoddcarrolA/"> Hyman, Ray. <i>The Elusive Quarry : a Scientific Appraisal of Psychical Research</i> (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1989).</a></font></p> <p style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial" size="3"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1573921610/roberttoddcarrolA/">Keene, M. Lamar. The Psychic Mafia (Prometheus, 1997).</a></font></p> <p style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial" size="3"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0879753005/roberttoddcarrolA/">Kurtz, Paul. editor, </a><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0879753005/roberttoddcarrolA/">A Skeptic's Handbook of Parapsychology, </a></i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0879753005/roberttoddcarrolA/">  (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1985).</a></font></p> <p style="text-align: left"> <font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0801823315/roberttoddcarrolA/"> Mauskopf, S.H. and McVaugh, M.R. (1980). <i> The Elusive Science: Origins of Experimental Psychical Research</i>. Johns Hopkins University Press.</a></font></p> <p style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial" size="3"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0345409469/roberttoddcarrolA/">Sagan, Carl. <i>The Demon-Haunted World - Science as a Candle in the Dark</i> (New York: Random House, 1995).</a></font></p> <p style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial" size="3"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1573920215/roberttoddcarrolA/">Stein, Gordon. editor, <i>The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal</i> (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1996).</a></font></p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="right"> <div class="right_it"> <div class="search"> <form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/custom" target="_top"> <input type="hidden" name="domains" value="skepdic.com" /> <input type="text" name="q" maxlength="255" value="" size="20" /> <input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search" /> <br /> <div class="search_2"> <input type="radio" name="sitesearch" value="" /> Web     <input type="radio" name="sitesearch" value="skepdic.com" checked="checked" /> Skepdic.com <br /> <img src="_images/logo_google.gif" alt="Google" width="48" height="19" /> </div> <input type="hidden" name="client" value="pub-3542920166946725" /> <input type="hidden" name="forid" value="1" /> <input type="hidden" name="ie" value="ISO-8859-1" /> <input type="hidden" name="oe" value="ISO-8859-1" /> <input type="hidden" name="cof" value="GALT:#008000;GL:1;DIV:#336699;VLC:663399;AH:center;BGC:FFFFFF;LBGC:336699;ALC:0000FF;LC:0000FF;T:000000;GFNT:0000FF;GIMP:0000FF;FORID:1;" /> <input type="hidden" name="hl" value="en" /> </form> </div> <div class="center"> <div align="right"> <p align="right"><a href="http://skepdic.com/authorpage.html"><strong>Books by R. 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