Before you begin -- Charting the course -- Part 1: Fabrications, fantasies, and frauds. The Holy Ghost bartender -- The party -- The Vineyard connection -- The runway in Toronto -- The fatal fruit -- Part 2 : Lying signs and wonders. Animals, animation, advertisements, and athletics -- A Jack with a lantern -- A great apostasy -- A great awakening -- A muddy mixture -- Part 3 : Endtime restorationism. Endtime restoration of tongues -- Endtime restoration of healing -- Endtime restoration of charismatic unity -- Endtime restoration of super prophets and apostles -- Endtime restoration hoaxes -- Part 4 : Slain in the Spirit. Sisters -- Suspect slayings -- Shakers and Quakers -- Seven scriptural pretexts -- Structural defects -- Part 5 : Hypnotism. The arrival of the mesmerist -- The altered state of consciousness -- The psychology of peer pressure -- The exploitation of expectations -- The subtle power of suggestion -- Epilogue.