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From the Preface …<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Every ghost story begins with a love story, and usually more than one.\u00a0 Once untangled, you will always find eternal love, unbearable loss and unconquerable fear.<\/p>\n

Everywhere, every minute, people all over the world are desperately begging God and any other power they can think of, to not take someone they love, their child, their husband or wife, mother or father or friend.\u00a0 And finally, at the end, don’t take me.\u00a0<\/p>\n

<\/span>There is no spot on earth that is free from loss.\u00a0 On this street, or in this room, someone laid down or was put down and was no more.\u00a0 Someone held someone else for the last time here.\u00a0 Rivers and lakes and oceans are full of people who vanished beneath the surface and were never seen again.\u00a0 Wherever you are standing, wherever you call home, someone left the earth there.\u00a0 Everyone we love dies and disappears.\u00a0<\/p>\n

<\/span>Something more substantial than a memory must survive of all that love.\u00a0 It’s unthinkable that the dead are truly and completely gone.\u00a0 And if the dead are not completely gone, we, as every generation that came before, are compelled to look for whatever remains.\u00a0<\/p>\n

<\/span>What is death but the end of all we love?\u00a0 Ghosts are what survive of love.\u00a0 Real or unreal, they are a testament to love, and the hope that no matter what, love lasts.<\/p>\n

<\/span>The men and women of the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory were scientists.\u00a0 They never would have phrased it this way.\u00a0 But when all is said and done, when trying to prove that death is not the end, what they were really trying to prove is that love lasts forever.\u00a0 The problem was how to scientifically demonstrate that life and all the feelings that go with it survive death.\u00a0 A medium relaying messages of continuing love from a dead wife might be enough for a inconsolable widower, but it would never be enough for the scientific community who demanded not only more convincing evidence, but also experiments that could be reliably repeated to produce consistent results.\u00a0 To move an idea out of the realm of belief and into the world of accepted fact, others must be able to verify your results.\u00a0 There are no shortcuts to this process, and no exceptions.\u00a0 Like those we pray to when death is imminent, the scientific method is immune to longing, hope and pleas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you like you can browse the book some more on my publisher’s website <\/strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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