Evolution of Spiritualism from its early European roots to the 19th-century American craze sparked by the Fox Sisters. Table-turning and automatic writing in Europe, Allan Kardec's Spiritism. Widespread fascination with mediums and séances, including the sessions that Queen Victoria hosted. Key figures, famous followers, skeptics, major fraud scandals, undebunked cases and current status of the movement

Exclusively for col2.com, the 8th part of BadMedium's diaries, telling his psychic and paranormal experiences in first person. In this installment, the visit of archangel Uriel

The most common superstitions in Western countries and their historical origins. Knocking on wood, Friday the 13th, rabbit's feet and 4-leaf clovers as amulets, wedding superstitions, walking under a ladder, spilling salt, opening an umbrella inside, breaking a mirror, crossing fingers, horseshoes on doors and black cats as harbingers of bad luck

Exclusively for col2.com, the 7th part of BadMedium's diaries, telling his psychic and paranormal experiences in first person. In this installment, precognition

Exclusively for col2.com, the 6th part of BadMedium's diaries, telling his psychic and paranormal experiences in first person. In this installment, the angel

Exclusively for col2.com, the 5th part of BadMedium's diaries, telling his psychic and paranormal experiences in first person. In this installment, voices of spirits attacking in the night

Between 1966 and 1968, the British Evening Star newspaper sponsored a project in which readers sent in premonitions about future catastrophes. The letters were studied with the aim of finding a methodology to avoid the ensuing tragedies, using the collective precognition gathered from the readers

Exclusively for col2.com, the fourth part of BadMedium's diaries, telling his psychic and paranormal experiences in first person

Exclusively for col2.com, the third part of BadMedium's diaries, telling his psychic and paranormal experiences in first person

Exclusively for col2.com, the second part of BadMedium's diaries, telling his psychic and paranormal experiences in first person. In this installment, seeing death coming

Exclusively for col2.com, BadMedium's diaries recounting his psychic and paranormal experiences in first person. In this first installment, an introduction to badmedium

A spirit named Patience Worth dictated poems and novels to a housewife through a Ouija board, turning her into a literary phenomenon overnight

The story of how an apothecary hunted by the black death became a prophet. The structure of the book in which he published his predictions of the future and the 10 most spectacular prophecies. The astrologer foretold the advent of historical figures, giving names and surnames, hundreds of years before they were born

Adopted since 3500 BC by numerous cultures, including early Christians, the pentagram was demonized in 1968. Historically, the symbol had no diabolical connotations

What sigils are, what they are for, how to create them in a simple way and how to activate them. Advanced techniques with sigils; robofish and shoaling

How to create a servitor following Chaos Magick methodology, a practical example, origins, the concept of thoughtforms and egregors

A spiritual compendium where all the knowledge of the Universe, past, present and future, is stored. This article explains how to gain access

Hypersigils, playbacks, cut-ups. Introducing distortions in reality and implanting false memories of the future to achieve effects of narrative magic

How to improvise a pendulum, how to use it to answer simple or complex questions using pendulum tables, a psychological explanation of dowsing and the use of pendulums in occult practices

Beyond brooms, concoctions and spells, neo-witchcraft is the fastest growing religion in Western countries. In this article we analyze its origins, its modern reconstruction and the reasons why it is gaining followers