The end, dude

...Mr. Pinchbeck, for example, contributes a think piece suggesting that a good deal of the current problems in the United States may be caused by “spirit possession on a mass scale.” We may be, he writes, “looking at situations in which unappeased demons and aggrieved ancestor spirits are overtaking people.” That’s one way of looking at Bernie Madoff

... from a review of Toward 2012.

Also strange: Odinism. And see Born believers: How your brain creates God