Karen discusses her doctoral research and book The Re-Enchanted Ghost, examining a shift in contemporary American fiction where ghosts become protagonists with agency rather than traditional antagonists or avengers. She explores how these novels create imaginative liminal afterlife spaces free of conventional theology, reflecting post-secular spirituality and the search for meaning amid the failures of [...]

Here she describes the slow and reluctant unfolding of her career as a spiritualist medium, which began with the sudden death of her fiancé. The process started with an assortment of “signs” that are sometimes noticed by bereaved individuals. Then more direct forms of communication began to occur, prompting this atheistic journalist to seek classes, [...]