A powerful warning about the hidden dangers in today's fascination with the paranormal -- the angel phenomenon, spirit guides, UFOs, vampires, Ouija boards, fantasy games, and others.

    But from the Hellenistic age onwards, some Greek and Roman philosophers and magicians portrayed her quite differently, allotting to her such duties as ensouling the cosmos and the individual men within it, forming the connective boundary between the divine and human worlds, and facilitating such communication between man and god as could lead eventually to the individual soul's release. She was celestial and potentially beneficent, rather than chthonic and threatening.