Following up on my recent video about the Ghost Exhibition in Basel, I’m shifting the lens toward a woefully underexplored historical puzzle: How did spirit visions and related experiences go from being dismissed as “insanity” to being explored as modern therapeutic tools? Part 1 of this new video trilogy sets the stage by exploring dramatic … Read more
Christian Jarrett, an editor at Aeon magazine, approached me after reading my response to a Japanese newspaper query on ghost beliefs in the West last year to commission a short article on a similar topic. I was happy to comply, and my Aeon piece on the hidden history of hallucinations and visions went online in … Read more
Earlier this month I was contacted by a reporter from the Tokyo newspaper Chunichi Shimbun with questions on ghost beliefs in the UK. The occasion for the query was the Obon Festival – the time of the year when spirits of the dead are believed to reunite with their families –, which is currently celebrated … Read more