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The psychic Mafia by M. Lamar Keene, as told to Allen Spraggett, with a foreword by William V. Rauscher is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The psychic Mafia about?

In 1976, Keene co-authored The Psychic Mafia, "as told to" Allen Spraggett, a well-known Canadian writer on paranormal topics. The writer William V. Rauscher, himself a believer in psychic powers, contributed a foreword and a bibliography and wrote that he conducted 75 hours of interviews with Keene, during which Keene admitted that all of his psychic activities were done by fraudulent means. Keene revealed how he got rich by tricking thousands of people in séances. James Randi, a professional magician, interviewed Keene in 1977, and discovered that Keene was quite unsophisticated in fooling people with magic, but Keene explained that his spiritualist clients were easy to fool. Keene described how the victims fell for the most transparent ruses. Keene coined the term true-believer syndrome in the book. In The Psychic Mafia, Keene explicitly professed a belief in God, life after death, psychic phenomena and ESP, even after making his case against true believers and renouncing his trade as a phony medium. Keene not only confessed that he himself was a fraudulent medium, but also that many of his colleagues were as well. He wrote that it was common practice for mediums to share inform

Author

M. Lamar Keene, as told to Allen Spraggett, with a foreword by William V. Rauscher

Publisher

New York: St. Martin's Press

Published

1976

Language

EN

Subjects

Philosophy, Psychology, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-24