Jonestowne

“I was, allegedly, free of him, and I was safe, but I'd lost faith in that delusion a long time ago.”
― Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

“There is always drama, and sometimes comedy, involved. Ghosts are people, haunted by unhappy memories, and incapable of escaping by themselves from the vicious net of emotional entanglements. It’s not a good idea for a ghost hunter to be afraid of anything, because fear attracts undesirables even among the Unseen. An authoritative and positive position is quite essential with both medium and ghost. Sometimes, these “entities” or visitors in temporary control of the medium’s speech mechanism like their newly found voice so much, they don’t want to leave. That’s when the firm orders of the Investigator alone send them out of the medium’s body. There are dangers involved in this work, but only for the amateur. For a good psychic researcher does know how to rid the medium of unwanted entities. If all this sounds like a medieval text to you, hold your judgment. You may not have seen a “visitor” take over a Sensitive’s body, and “operate” it the way you might operate a car! But I have, and other researchers have, and when the memories are those of the alleged ghost, and certainly not those of the medium, then you can’t dismiss such things as fantastic! Too much disbelieving is just as unscientific as too much believing. Even though the lady in T. S. Eliot’s Confidential Clerk says blandly, “I don’t believe in facts,” I do. Facts—come to think of it—are the only things I really do believe in.”
― Hans Holzer, Ghost Hunter: The Groundbreaking Classic of Paranormal Investigation

“my thinking, is how I am meant to live it;”
― Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

“purple bible-o’-madness”
― Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays