The Complete Book of Ghosts Quotes

“In many parts of the world, ghosts are not considered to be a creation of local folklore, but a fact of life. In China the dead are understood to co-exist with the living, a belief which gave rise to the practice of ancestor worship, while in South America the deceased are honoured with annual festivals known as the Day of the Dead which suggests that the material world and the spirit world might not be as distinct as we might like to believe. In the Eastern and Asiatic religions it is believed that death is not the end, but simply a transition from one state of being to another. The Hindu Upanishads, for example, liken each human soul to a lump of salt taken from the ocean which must ultimately return to the source.”
― Paul Roland, The Complete Book of Ghosts: A Fascinating Exploration of the Spirit World, from Apparitions to Haunted Places

“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads or you shall learn nothing.’ Thomas Henry Huxley on the duty of a scientist, 1860”
― Paul Roland, The Complete Book of Ghosts: A Fascinating Exploration of the Spirit World, from Apparitions to Haunted Places

“While much of the evidence is anecdotal, there are numerous cases where an apparition was witnessed by more than one person or where an individual was later able to verify details they had observed during their astral journey. There is also solid scientific evidence for the existence of the etheric double gathered from experiments conducted in the mid-1970s by Dr Karl Osis of California, USA during which the invisible presence projected by a psychic in an adjoining room was recorded either by photosensitive instruments or sensors which could detect the tiniest movements of a feather in a sealed container.”
― Paul Roland, The Complete Book of Ghosts: A Fascinating Exploration of the Spirit World, from Apparitions to Haunted Places

“There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another ... There is a natural body and there is a spiritual body.’ (1 Corinthians 15:35–44).”
― Paul Roland, The Complete Book of Ghosts: A Fascinating Exploration of the Spirit World, from Apparitions to Haunted Places

“Hume failed to understand that paranormal phenomena do not violate or contradict nature; the supernatural is an extension of the natural world and conforms to universal laws.”
― Paul Roland, The Complete Book of Ghosts: A Fascinating Exploration of the Spirit World, from Apparitions to Haunted Places