The doctrine of signatures, dating from the time of Dioscorides and Galen, states that herbs resembling various parts of the body can be used by herbalists...

occur. It is seen as an example of synchronicity, as well as a favorable sign or a suggestion towards the presence of spiritual influence. It is additionally...

of acoustic emissions Doctrine of signatures, the notion that the appearance of plants is a function of their celestial influences Isotopic signature...

television personality, museum operator, and author. He is the principal host of the Travel Channel series Ghost Adventures. Bagans was born in Washington...

power, fame, or other advantages through pretense or deception. One example of a charlatan appears in the Canterbury Tales story "The Pardoner's Tale," with...

Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Doctrine produced a draft report on the origins of the Enneagram to aid bishops in their evaluation of its use...

Kabbalistic emanations (sefirot). Doctrine of signatures Ceremonial magic Correspondence, a concept in the philosophy of the 18th-century theologian Emanuel...

drew on theosophical ideas of the "lost worlds" of Atlantis and Lemuria, particularly Helena Blavatsky's The Secret Doctrine written in 1888, with its...

Like EMDR, practitioners of this technique use a pointer to direct a client’s eye gaze. Brainspotting has been listed as one of the Trauma Power Therapies...

on sugar and water alone. Incorporated within the Access Consciousness doctrine is a clearing statement, which is to be said, like a mantra, throughout...

the scientific phenomenon of increased intestinal permeability commonly known as "leaky gut". Claims for the existence of "leaky gut syndrome" as a distinct...

label used to describe someone who sells, promotes, or is a general proponent of some valueless or fraudulent cure, remedy, or solution. The term comes from...

infectious disease, and that the germ theory of disease is wrong. It usually involves arguing that Louis Pasteur's model of infectious disease was wrong, and that...

or cryptaesthesia, is a claimed paranormal ability pertaining to reception of information not gained through the recognized physical senses, but sensed...

television writer and producer. Her book The Secret is based on the belief of the law of attraction, which claims that thoughts can change a person's life directly...

four-letter test result representing one of sixteen possible types, such as "INFP" or "ESTJ". The perceived accuracy of test results relies on the Barnum effect...

impacted the current state of the afflicted person". In March 2009, the Committee on Doctrine of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops issued...

or /ˌfʌŋˈʃweɪ/), sometimes called Chinese geomancy, is a traditional form of geomancy that originated in Ancient China and claims to use energy forces...

of the affected, was thought to be useful in treating the disease, according to the doctrine of signatures – the plant being hung around the neck of the...

ailments because of its perceived similarities to the shape and texture of animal livers. This is an example of the doctrine of signatures. Marchantia polymorpha...

contemporaries. In it, the author repeatedly expounds the doctrine that the universe consists of only two places, the Earth below the firmament and heaven...

(born c. 1969) is an American conspiracy theorist, who is one of the leading proponents of, and recruiters for, the discredited flat Earth conspiracy theory...

pseudoscientific mixture of ideas which purportedly draws from quantum mechanics, psychology, philosophy, and neurophysiology. Advocates of quantum healing assert...

Palmistry is the pseudoscientific practice of fortune-telling through the study of the palm. Also known as palm reading, chiromancy, chirology or cheirology...

The concept of indigo children gained popular interest with the publication of a series of books in the late 1990s and the release of several films...

dozen books, most notably Fingerprints of the Gods and Magicians of the Gods. His ideas have been the subject of several films, as well as the Netflix...

Bennett, Bradley C. (2007). "Doctrine of Signatures: An Explanation of Medicinal Plant Discovery or Dissemination of Knowledge?". Economic Botany. 61...

speculative doctrine, Marr elaborated a Marxist footing for it. He hypothesized that modern languages tend to fuse into a single language of communist society...

motor or magnetic motor is a type of perpetual motion machine, which is intended to generate a rotation by means of permanent magnets in stator and rotor...

Planet X. The idea was first put forward in 1995 by Nancy Lieder, founder of the website ZetaTalk. Lieder claims she is a contactee with the ability to...