| Acknowledgements | 11 |
| Preface | 14 |
| 1. | Introduction | 19 |
| Part 1 |
| Overview | 33 |
| 2. | An Overview of Tricksters From Mythology, Folklore, and Elsewhere | 35 |
| 3. | Ernest Hartmann's Mental Boundaries | 48 |
| 4. | Victor Turner's Concept of Anti-structure | 52 |
| Part 2 |
| Overview | 73 |
| 5. | Mysticism, Holy Madness, and Fools for God | 75 |
| 6. | Shamanism and Its Sham | 86 |
| Part 3 |
| Overview | 95 |
| 7. | Michael Winkelman on Magico-religious Practitioners | 97 |
| 8. | Max Weber, Charisma, and the Disenchantment of the World | 102 |
| 9. | Cultural Change and the Paranormal | 110 |
| Part 4 |
| Overview | 117 |
| 10. | Prominent "Psychics" | 119 |
| 11. | Conjurors and the Paranormal | 130 |
| 12. | CSICOP and the Debunkers | 148 |
| 13. | Small Groups and the Paranormal | 162 |
| 14. | Alternative Religions and Psi | 171 |
| 15. | Institutions and the Paranormal | 178 |
| 16. | Anti-structure and the History of Psychical Research | 191 |
| 17. | Unbounded Conditions | 210 |
| 18. | Government Disinformation | 219 |
| 19. | Hoaxes and the Paranormal | 247 |
| Part 5 |
| Overview | 273 |
| 20. | Reflexivity and the Trickster | 277 |
| 21. | Laboratory Research on Psi | 309 |
| 22. | Totemism and the Primitive Mind | 344 |
| 23. | Literary Criticism, Meaning, and the Trickster | 368 |
| Part 6 |
| Overview | 393 |
| 24. | The Imagination | 395 |
| 25. | Paranoia | 413 |
| 26. | Conclusions | 422 |
| Endnotes | 433 |
| References | 481 |
| Index | 535 |
