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If we learn to speak with the realm of the dead, we may need a greater relationship with the living and grapple with our inherent fear of endings and uncertainty “One needn't be a chamber to be haunted. One needn't to be a house” – Emily Dickinson Ghosts have been capturing our fear and fascination for hundreds of years. From Pliny to Toni Morrison, haunted houses to séances, spectres, phantoms and apparitions have all the time been a feature of popular culture, literature and mass media, proving endlessly durable against scepticism.  Though the subject of ghosts could be sinister, mediumship has taught me that communing with the dead could be quite restorative. My work with...