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Ghosts - David J Pitkin By David J Pitkin Here is an enlightened book aimed at young adults of the 21st Century, individuals who know that life and consciousness extend beyond the body. Pitkin has transcended the old “fright genre” of books about ghosts. His over 202 researched stories aim to offer deeper spiritual understanding of life by exploring events dealing with death. Gone are the traditional, simplistic images of malefic evil-bent shades. As the author esteems a new generation of seekers for “what is really going on in life,” and has an extensive metaphysical background as professional intuitive, he can offer many ghosts’ unresolved struggles, difficulties that you may share. These tales from New York State, New England and Canada were compiled from hundreds of first-person interviews and the author’s (often accompanied by gifted psychics) journeys. The reader can discover many of the issues that can prevent the dead person from “resting in peace,” but instead, cause the restless consciousness to seek some resolution to problems from the just-ended physical life. by David J Pitkin Here are 135 researched ghost stories that you never heard before. Historian, investigator and storyteller David J. Pitkin spent 9 years interviewing across new England to present these tales of returned relatives, store ghosts, campus ghosts, spirits in old hotels and inns and modern restaurants, and, of course, haunted residences. Aiming not to scare you, but to draw you into profound thinking about the life that continues after your body dies, he continues his role of teacher. We must all pass through the state of being a ghost, he tells us. See whether or not you think he makes his case. Accompanied by 75 photos, his eighth book demonstrates how common are the appearances and antics of the departed, who have been experienced by the living for thousands of years. He often discovers who these unique personalities are and why they remain among us when something better still awaits them. Not that many of them are to be feared, as they are just continuing what they struggled with in life.