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Scams from the Great Beyond
How to Make Easy Money Off of ESP, Astrology, UFOs, Crop Circles, Cattle Mutilations, Alien Abductions, Atlantis, Channelling, and Other New Age Nonsense
How to separate fools from their money
By Peter Huston
Our Price: $20.00
Our Item Code: ScamsFromBeyond
Postage Code: book1
208 Pages, Trade Paperback
Cover Size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches
Paladin Press
Related listings: Paranormal Skepticism
Date: 1997
ISBN: 0-87364-912-5
Added to Catalog: 9/8/98
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Features: Table of Contents, Drawings
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In the age-old game of separating fools from their money, there's a
whole new crop of all-too-eager dupes ripe for harvesting by the
latest breed of cynical con men. The victims include bored housewives
looking for otherworldly answers to everyday dilemmas, middle-aged men
suddenly desperate for mystical meaning in their lives, and a host of
well-off weenies searching for an all-knowing shepherd wise to the ways
of the unexplained, unknown, and otherwise unbelievable. The thieves
include 1-900 telephone psychics quick with vague "readings" of every
caller's life, alien abductees bursting with fantastic tales of their
contact with extraterrestrials (all revealed in their new book for
only $29.95), and a galaxy of telepaths, crystal gazers, astrologers,
dolphin channelers, crop circle interpreters, and anyone else who has
dreamed up an incredible new way to get at the minds and money of
gullible folks everywhere!
In Scams from the Great Beyond, author, researcher, and sometimes
skeptic Peter Huston delves into this strange, silly, and sometimes
sad reincarnation of P.T. Barnum's amazingly astute observation,
"There's a sucker born every minute" (which, ironically, is one of the
only accurate future predictions ever uttered). In demonstrating just
how easy it is to fake ESP powers like clairvoyance and telekinesis,
devise your own UFO photos from ordinary objects or the latest
computer technology, or simply pass yourself off as a guru worthy of
high admission fees to hear you speak pseudomystical gibberish at
seminars and retreats, Huston's goal is straightforward: to promote
critical thinking and educate readers so they will use logic and
reason to protect themselves and others from the swindlers, cultists,
and con men whose goals are to lie, trick, rob, and control people by
using claims of the miraculous.
Whether you're a curious student of arcane knowledge who is
intrigued but slightly cautious about paranormal phenomena, or a
lifelong cynic who shakes your head in disbelief every time you pass
the bulletin board at a health food store, you should read this book.
It is one path to true enlightenment!
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