Since the beginning of history, people have offered many explanations for how the world works, including religion, magic, psychic phenomena, and science. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli sort out what these terms mean now and historically and how faith and reason approaches each.
Links for this episode:
- Magic and Superstition in Europe: A Concise History from Antiquity to the Present
- Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome
- Parapsychology: A Handbook for the 21st Century
- An Introduction to Parapsychology, 5th edition
- “Telepathy” (1912 Catholic Encyclopedia article)
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