Revisiting a Classic: The Goblin Universe, and A Word About Sceptics

Revisiting the classic book The Goblin Universe, by Ted Holiday, and an introduction by Colin Wilson. This book is one of those musts for anyone interested in Fortean phenomena.

In the introduction, Wilson refers to Professor James Hyslop, who had this to say about skeptics:

I regard the existence of discarnate spirits as scientifically proved, and I no longer refer to the sceptic as having any right to speak on the subject. Any man who does not accept the existence of discarnate spirits and the proof of it is either ignorant or a moral coward. I give him short shrift, and do not propose to argue with him on the supposition that he knows nothing about the subject.

And, as Wilson writes in the same introduction:

The real problem, I would suggest, is not lack of evidence, but lack of an overall theory to explain the evidence.

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