From Lazarus to Lourdes
Bleeding or weeping statuettes, visions of the Virgin Mary, stigmatism, angelic intervention, near-death experiences, miraculous healing - in the run-up to the millennium reports of such events are increasingly common.
Can they all be dismissed as due to fraud or self-delusion, either individual or collective? If not, and if we are dealing with actual events, is the source that empowers them supernatural or does it lie in the hidden depths of the human mind itself?
From guardian angels to the man who is said to cure AIDS, and from milk-drinking idols to levitation and fire-walking, Stuart Gordon recounts the tales, marshals the arguments and examines the truth underlying belief in the existence of miracle, marvel and prodigy.
