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8 Post author: rstarkov 24 March 2011 08:52PM

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Comment author: anonym 25 March 2011 03:16:05AM *  4 points [-]

Agreed on 'mental' not being a necessary condition. A magical pixie dust used in some new age prosperity ritual would be a purportedly supernatural phenomenon, but there would be nothing mental about that.

The supernatural is that which is believed by its believers to be neither reducible to, nor explainable in terms of, the natural.