(MAIL ONLINE) — A Saudi man has been chained in a basement apartment for more than six years because his father believes he is possessed by an evil female genie. ‘When he has fits he has convulsions and his entire body twists and his eyes become completely white,’ said the father of the 29-year-old man [...]

(MOSCOW TIMES) — A 4-year-old boy sickened with pneumonia died in the Primorye region after being made to participate in an exorcism by a Korean shaman, news reports said Wednesday. The parents of the child asked shaman So Dyavor, 59, and her husband, Kim Sende, 62, to perform a ritual to exorcise “evil spirits” that [...]

(LOGOS APOLOGIA) — Throughout this strange confrontation with Mr. Klein I have wondered, “Where does he get this kooky stuff?” Unfortunately, Ken is following the typical profile of a cult by manufacturing new revelations that “correct” orthodox Christian beliefs. I thought I had found my answer when I researched the heresies of Origen and Mormon [...]

(MichaelSHeiser.com) — This October will mark the kickoff of the Institute for Paranormal, Preternatural, and Parapsychological Studies IPPPS. It is an online institute. There are roughly 60 six-week courses. Besides myself, Dr. Judd Burton is the other faculty member. I may be recruiting other faculty as we proceed. The goal of the institute is to [...]

Hat tip to Tim. — PID CANCUN, Mexico (AP) – Police discovered six dead bodies in a cavern Sunday near the tourist resort of Cancun, three of them cut open and their hearts removed. Authorities are investigating the identities of the four men and two women found dead in the natural cave, said Francisco Alor, [...]

Hat tip to Deon for sending us the link! — PID Nelspruit (BEELD) — Any member of the ANC who dares to leave the party will be exposed by “the ancestors” and “will get sick”, President Jacob Zuma told about 30 000 people on Sunday. /snip/ He said the ANC is stronger than ever, and [...]

(BANGKOK POST) — Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said Thursday that he is a Marxist, yet credits capitalism for bringing new freedoms to the communist country that exiled him — China. The Dalai Lama speaks during a press conference after the first of his teaching sessions at Radio City Hall in New York. Tibetan [...]

(LA MARZULLI) — A few years back, maybe when I first started to BLOG, I was appalled when I heard that Laura Bush was promoting the Harry Potter series. Potter is nothing more than new-age, witch-craft packaged to appeal to our youth. The series have sold millions of books and, in my opinion, is Satanically [...]

(WASHINGTON POST) — In spring of 1988, White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater acknowledged publicly what journalists had whispered for years: Ronald and Nancy Reagan were devotees of astrology. There was more to the story than the White House let on. In a speech and essay produced decades apart, Reagan revealed the unmistakable mark of a [...]

(HoustonBelief.com) — The latest trend among some contemporary Texas churches is a seemingly simple one: the start time. Instead of traditional on-the-hour worship, they’re picking times a minute or two off. The Loft, the contemporary worship ministry of the Woodlands United Methodist Church, holds services at 6:29 p.m. on Saturdays and 9:29 and 11:11 on [...]

(NY DAILY NEWS) — Holy man or hoax? An Indian man has the attention of the Indian military because of his claim that he does not require food or water to survive. Prahlad Jani claims to a “breatharian,” someone who can live on “spiritual life force.” He says that his powers come from a goddess [...]

(AOL NEWS) – Deepak Chopra, the famed alternative-medicine practitioner and transcendental meditation guru, is pretty sure he knows what really happened. “Had a powerful meditation just now — caused an earthquake in Southern California,” Chopra wrote to his nearly 179,000 Twitter followers shortly after the quake. via Chopra Blames Own Meditation for Baja Quake – [...]

(AP) — At the edge of arid foothills far outside Los Angeles, hundreds of Scientology followers live on a gated, 500-acre campus and work long hours for almost no pay reproducing the works of founder L. Ron Hubbard and creating the church’s teaching and promotional materials. The church says its 5,000 so-called Sea Organization members [...]