The Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts Quotes

“Madame Blavatsky affirmed long ago that "your best, your most powerful mediums, have all suffered in health and body and mind." Other authorities have stated that mediumship, while sometimes culminating in insanity, leads frequently to the atrophy of brain tissue, the degeneracy of mental powers and increasing egotism and emotionalism. Such testimony tallies, indirectly, with the contaminating presence of hungry ghosts. If mediumship is indeed synonymous with negativity and disintegration, only dissolute astral beings would participate in such a process.”
― Joe Fisher, The Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts: A Riveting Investigation Into Channeling and Spirit Guides

“When all is said and done, there is no shortcut to Nirvana. But in this narcissistic age of instant gratification and swift solution, the great deception of channeling is that we may glide effortlessly back to the Godhead. All we have is pay our money, take our seats and dream on as loving discarnates lead us to enlightenment. Why, the Big E. is just around the corner and anyway - didn't you know? - we are God.”
― Joe Fisher, The Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts: A Riveting Investigation Into Channeling and Spirit Guides

“Two thoughts swam relentlessly through my head. Firstly, after cen turies of unsuccessful endeavor by minds far more enlightened than my own, how could I have been so arrogant to suppose that, with the guides’ help, I was actually unraveling the mysteries of life and death? And secondly, if the guides were not guides after all, who were they?”
― Joe Fisher, The Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts: A Riveting Investigation Into Channeling and Spirit Guides