TIME LINE___________

Psychic Investigators in medieval times were under the influence of Church doctrine. It was a time when the Devil was felt to be very real and close by. For three or four hundred years hundreds of thousands were burned as witches or heretics. Investigators of the day studied saint's bones, the Holy Grail, the philosopher's stone - but mixed their Christian mythology with pagan concepts of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Occult philosophers from Casanova to Paracelsus were typical of the psychic investigators of the time. Their convoluted reasoning about the mysteries of nature help explain why these were known as the 'dark ages.'