Gene and guest cohost Tim Swartz introduce James McClenon Ph.D., a sociology professor and licensed clinical social worker. He is author of these books: Deviant Science: The Case of Parapsychology, Wondrous Events: Foundations of Religious Belief, Wondrous Healing: Shamanism, Human Evolution, and the Origin of Religion, and The Entity Letters: A Sociologist on the Trail of a Supernatural Mystery. The book, The Entity Letters, details a group of individuals, the SORRAT sitter group (Society for Research on Rapport and Telekinesis) who between 1961 and 2017 were actively engaged in a variety of spiritualistic practices involving a wide range of apparent paranormal, physical phenomena that include table tipping and levitation, poltergeist phenomena, earthquake effects and rapping.