I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud. ”—Psychiatrist Dr. Carl Jung in a 1919 address to the Society for Psychical Research in England

Did Ida never look for him?” Dieter asks.”She didn’t believe in spirits.””And what became of Henry?””Oh. From time to time you can still hear him calling. My father heard his voice himself.””Every Saturday night when...

I think our lives are surely but the dreamsOf spirits, dwelling in the distant spheres,Who as we die, do one by one awake.

One of the hardest things you will ever have to go through is the death of a child. The second hardest thing you will ever have to go through is having a child die at...

And so the spirits just gazed at us with eyes milked dry of care.

The clear stars before him took to shuddering and he knew why; they shuddered at sight of what was behind him. He had never divined before that strange Things hid themselves from men, under pretence...

Empty space eventually fills up with something. A void, cultivated in the aftermath of misfortune, begins to attract the wrong kind of attention. Marco knew it was time to leave when disagreeable spirits started roaming...

Love is two spirits occupying one bottle of spirit. You’ve got to be 21 to drink of me.

Each night at bedtime, I’d close the bedroom door, climb into bed, and settle in under the covers. Within a minute, the door handle would turn and the door slowly open about a foot. Then...

They’re ghosts, surely, and Rabbit absolutely believes in them. There are things in the world, strange machinations of physics and chemistry,queer intersections of biology and theology, that Rabbit hasn’t the slightest interest in assuming he’ll...

Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparitions. Calcutta has countless such stories hidden in its darkness, stories that nobody wants to admit they believe but which...

It is time, therefore, that you should apply for aid to such helpful Spirits. But will you have the strength of mind, the courage to endure the approach of Beings so different from mankind? I...

The sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the streets of Rome.

Do not allow yourself to be blinded by fear and anger. Everything is only as it is.

Never invite any kind of spirit to enter either your home or your person. This is an extremely important point to remember. To do so always risks to unwittingly invite evil spirits in, instead. Good...

Soul SisterEvoking all my inner goodnesswith bastions of timeI cradle your heartsisterly into mine…

And the bubbles of light again rose and fell, and in their disordered, irregular, turbulent maze, mingled with the wan moonlight. And now from these globules themselves as from the shell of an egg, monstrous...

It was a really beautiful view, and Brida recalled that spirits preferred such places.

By the shores of Gitche Gumee,By the shining Big-Sea-Water,Stood the wigwam of Nokomis,Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis,Dark behind it rose the forest,Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees,Rose the firs with cones upon them;Bright before it...

Never interrupt a faerie circle ceremony. And, if a faerie has appeared to you, visually, do not speak to it until it has spoken to you. These two transgressions are considered so rude, that the...

Darkness can inspire light, and light can inspire darkness, its just a difference of distant of these two contrasting forces.

Halloween season. The season of the witch, so many thought. And, in legend, the night when souls could return to earth…And try to linger on.But the dead weren’t really returning, the living created evil.

Believe that you are someone worth saving.

I can still only see a dragonfly, its wings as thin and light as silk and its body the color of rainbow. But on the wings of this dragonfly I take off and fly, for...

Ruth, que quería que todos creyeran lo que ella sabía: que los muertos realmente nos hablan, que, en el aire que rodea a los vivos, los espíritus se mueven, se entremezclan y ríen con nosotros....

When you uncork a bottle of mature fine wine, what you are drinking is the product of a particular culture and tradition, a particular soil, a particular climate, the weather in that year, and the...

Man is better off without the confusion and fear of psychic experience and his progress will be faster.’ If telepathy ever becomes a possibility he was not sure it would be a good thing, ‘…for...

There is no place so dark that light cannot lead the way.

Sometimes it seems that to exit this world, they must go through my heart, leaving me scarred and sore.

I would not see you too fall victim to its powers. Let us only hope that Fireskin has truly purified the stone, and not merely intensified the potential for evil that is in it. I...

No, I do not believe in fate, that some spirits of the heavens weave the laws of the world to make it so. That is dogma for the foolish, for the universe is quite able...

Like a great fool, I went ashore with them, and they gave me some cursed stuff they called gin, – such blasphemy I never heard! At first when they told me they had set up...

The difference in our potential as angels or demons is the effect of time on the decisions we make.

People tend to think that death is absolute, the one thing we can all be certain about, but that’s not the case. Death is complex. It’s powerful and timeless. The truth is, when it comes...

In the matter of spirit follow the Gods, in the matter of work follow the heroes.

As Mr. R. U. Sayee has well said: ‘It should be clear a priori that fairy lore must have developed as a result of modifications and accretions received in different countries and at many periods,...

The spirits of children are remote and wise…

Healing cannot occur by refusing to listen to the truth, unsettling as it may be.

I cannot count the good people I know who, to my mind, would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers.

I noticed that in a corner, across from where they ate with such innocent relish, sitting forlorn and abandoned, was the ghost of their son. He had lost both of his arms, one side of...

But I find it necessary to repeat in this particular place that the division into classes, which is so salient a part of modern demonology, had, and has, little significance for primitive man or for...

Do you like a good ghost story?”-Jonah

Challenges in the rear view appear smaller than they are.. But keep your spirits higher than the Challenges are.

Lena scowled at the empty space in her living room. “Oh sure, thanks, I had fun too.” She’d stayed awake, spilled a cup of perfectly good tea, and for what? A spirit with the noncorporeal...

The spirits of the dead are not among us to entertain us… Assuming the revenants you encounter have simply signed up to play haunted house for the amusement of the living is just plain ignorant.

At Bealltainn, or May Day, every effort was made to scare away the fairies, who were particularly dreaded at this season. In the West Highlands charms were used to avert their influence. In the Isle...

Many African societies divide humans into three categories: those still alive on the earth, the sasha, and the zamani. The recently departed whose time on earth overlapped with people still here are the sasha, the...

Engaging spirits isn’t an elitist ability or industry, it’s being active in the connection with All Things. It’s innate to us all.

The terms we use for what is considered supernatural are woefully inadequate. Beyond such terms as ghost, specter, poltergeist, angel, devil, or spirit, might there not be something more our purposeful blindness has prevented us...

When you look at it objectively, that’s what most colonists do—they land then find a way of wiping out their competition. In America is was blankets covered with smallpox and in Australia it was permits...