There are at least three camps at large today.
1- People who believe in strange things (occult, paranormal, metaphysics etc.).
2- Critical thinkers who see the fallacies in those beliefs.
3- Critical thinking people who study and practice the magical arts.

This site is about, by and for the third.

By way of explanation, critical thinking in this case means "inclined to look for
and point out defects in an effort to see a thing clearly and truly in order to
judge it fairly.

For an excellent example, go to skepdic.com
Not only is there a mini lesson in critical thinking, but a fairly comprehensive
on-line skeptics dictionary, defining everything from  abracadabra to  zombies,
from the critical thinkers point of view. It took me a quite a few hours over
the course of a couple of days to read every definition on the site.
It was quite illuminating. Over the past 45 years I have encountered all manner
of foolishness and fraud involved in mankind's quest for knowledge and power.
The skeptic's site carefully examines silliness and frauds even I hadn't heard of.
I am thankful for their efforts and wish them much prosperity and long life on
the internet. I can find no fault in their reasoning, nor anything I disagree with.

On the other hand, turning to my so-called peers, I found a site the other day
selling two video courses. One being a complete system of magick and the
other being a course on shamanism.
They supplied sample clips from both courses. In the sample clip from the magick
course was a demonstration of an old vaudeville magic trick used by snake oil
salesmen. Only it wasn't presented as a trick. It was presented as real magickal
power, to the tune of $525.00 now marked down to $325.00 for a limited time.
I myself have have always loved magic shows. So much so I started practicing
while still in grade school. I even taught stage magic for a number of years.
It's great fun, but it's not real magick. The next sample video was a snippet
from "how to see auras." Again it was a stage presentation which was certain
to create an optical illusion and that illusion created the effect of being able to see
auras, or at least what one who has never seen a aura might imagine it to look like.
As luck would have it, I've also always loved optical illusions. The problem in this
case was, it was done too well. You could see the aura effect by just watching
the video. Had it been an actual aura effect, the video camera wouldn't have
picked it up. Video cameras don't see auras. It would be great if they did, because
then you wouldn't have too. You could just watch the video.
At this site, we don't like frauds. There are frauds perpetrated out of intent, which
in many places is a crime. Nothing we can do about that here. There are frauds
perpetrated out of ignorance. Those we can do something about by promoting
clear thinking and offering alternative information.
We also don't like Debunker's here, though not for the reason they might imagine.
A Debunker is often just another kind of fraud. They know the tricks ( in some
cases because they used them to con people at one time) and they expose the fraud,
but they never look for the truth. To show a fake thing as fake is not a remarkable
thing. Nor does it open any doors. The truth that a fake thing is fake is not a noble truth.
It binds you back to the mundane rather than freeing you to a greater experience.
It's another magic trick, only this time they create the illusion of being a critical thinker.
 

Obviously this site has not been fully up loaded yet, this is...a sample
but when it is, it won't cost you anything.