C.S. Lewis on Ghosts: An Anthology

In the “Ghosts” Appendix to A Magical World, I related the alleged apparition of the freshly deceased C.S. Lewis to New Testament scholar J.B. Phillips, in addition to Lewis’ own remarks about experiencing the presence of his late wife. I further cited some key passages from The Great Divorce to suggest that Lewis may have tacitly recognized a temporary ghostly existence as one possibility of the status animarum post mortem, as he once called it.1

A spectral daydream, circa 1947

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