The Occult Reported

I have never seen a ghost and do not know from personal experience that any such exist. Nevertheless, once a month I get my hair cut by a hairdresser who tells me that he has seen many and has done so since an early age. In his youth he had a teacher named Sylvia Browne, who was one of the better known psychics of the twentieth century. Listening to the accounts of his experiences is fascinating. My wife, who also gets her hair done by Brad, is fairly skeptical about his stories, as are most of my colleagues at the university. But it is also the case that most of them have no knowledge of the relevant literature. Anyone who has studied the lives of famous psychics such as Edgar Cayce, Leonora Piper, Arthur Ford, Daniel Douglas Home, etc., has testimony regarding a “reality” that most of us never experience.