The Beginner's Guide to Ghosts and Hauntings by Lisa Oliver

by Lisa Oliver

Everything you have ever wanted to know about ghosts but didn’t want to ask. A bit of a strange topic. But if you have picked up this book it is because you believe there is more to life (and death) than the things we can see, or the things that can be proven by science. Over the centuries literally thousands of people have claimed to see ghostly apparitions that bear a resemblance to a person who had lived life to some degree or another. If you go through the Internet you will find countless stories of people alive today who have seen a ghost, or who believes in ghosts, or wants to know more about them. This book is for the third group of people – those of you who want to learn more about this mystical, yet strangely logical phenomenon. At this point in the game it doesn’t matter to me if you believe in ghosts or not. I believe in what I can see, hear and experience; and I have been fortunate enough to have seen, heard and experienced ghosts at different times, in different places and at different ages in my own life. Ghosts fascinate me for two reasons. Firstly they provide a link to the past – to my ancestors in some cases, and to the ancestors of others. The second reason I am fascinated with ghosts is because they provide us with one of the most tangible examples of life after death. While many of us have faith in different religions and beliefs; ghosts transcend both religions and belief and actually provide a semi-scientific platform, which we can use to investigate what happens to us when we die. For those of us that believe in the infinite nature of energy, ghosts are simply an extension of the fact that energy itself cannot cease to exist but instead can and does change form. Many people fear ghosts; a fact that is borne out by the countless programs there are on television and in films where death is to be feared along with apparitions, poltergeists and other similar elements. Karl Marx would consider this fear a result of man being faced with his own mortality, but for me personally I see the fear manifested in popular media as a way of getting more people to watch an otherwise lacklustre program/film because it feeds into a form of mass hysteria. I can tell, simply because you have purchased this book, that you think more rationally than the people who actually participate in those programs, and you are looking for some answers. You might be a person who thinks they have seen a ghost but are not sure about you could be a person that lives with a ghostly boarder and is hoping to get some information on how to either co-exist with the entity, or information on how to get the ghost to move on. This book will be able to help you with those things.

Mass Market Paperback

First published March 28, 2012