Hauntings and Poltergeists Quotes

“In the act of watching the television news, audiences cross the globe, one moment viewing a scene in a wide aerial shot, the next moment seeing an emotional close up of a victim’s face. By extending the physical senses to impossible dimensions, media provide audiences a near metaphysical adventure.”
― James Houran, Hauntings and Poltergeists: Multidisciplinary Perspectives

“Believers in the supernatural claim to have special wisdom about the world. But real wisdom means knowing truth from falsehood, knowing the difference between evidence and wishful thinking.”
― James Houran, Hauntings and Poltergeists: Multidisciplinary Perspectives

“McLuhan implied that media characteristics create certain modes of perception in members of a society. For example, the logical, left-to-right linear constraints of print media cause people to perceive their world in a logical, linear way (McLuhan, 1964; McLuhan & Fiore, 1967).”
― James Houran, Hauntings and Poltergeists: Multidisciplinary Perspectives