Peter Ackroyd Quotes

I've had lots of supernatural experiences, but I always just blame them on my brain playing tricks. About five years ago, I woke up to a little girl lying next to me in my bed and when I reacted to her, she mirrored what I did.

Well, I've claimed to have seen two ghosts in a hotel room.

When you feel a ghost, most people will feel chills - you're feeling the energy.

I've got loads of photographs of me at home with two orbs that visit me. The two that I have are about the size of melons. One sits on my arm and the other is usually in the back of the shot, sitting just over my right shoulder.

When we fall asleep, we withdraw our awareness from its hypnotic fascination with physical sensation, thereby enabling us to listen with our now awakening sixth sense.

My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was going on in the invisible world, the survival of the consciousness, precipitated paintings, mediumship, and trans-channeling.

I'm pretty sure my house in Florida is haunted! He's a nice ghost though.

I see ghosts.

I really think there are spirits in a place that you have to accommodate.

I have often had apparitions of hosts of serpents with heads at their tails, but not one was able to bite me; and many other visions.

Premonitions, presentiments, the sensing of unseen presences and many allied experiences are due to the activity of the astral body and its reaction on the physical; their ever-increasing frequency is merely the result of its evolution among educated people.

I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished.

My silver cord - the link between my body and my spirit - was extremely sensitive. It was what allowed me to sense dreamscapes at a distance. It could also snap me back into my skin.

I believe in spirits, not ghosts.

I've never seen a poltergeist, but I do believe there is more than what we see, that there is more than just this.

When I was a kid, I thought I saw a ghost in the forest when I was on a bush walk, like a walk through the forest. I saw something weird pass from one side of the track to the other, and it was sort of a white, blurry... it's hard to describe, really - something that was almost see-through, but it just moved in front of me.

I've always been genuinely interested in the spirit world. I've seen things I will never talk about because I'd be a fool to. You can't lay out that world in words.

You know, I think I had my first past life recall when I was 7.

I definitely believe in ghosts.

It might feel good to be out of your body for awhile. But you can't stay like that forever.

I have a very open mind. I believe that there's a spirit world. I believe that there's a lot of stuff out there that we don't know about, don't want to understand, and sometimes we don't want to understand it.

Drag me to the moon, to catch a star and seize its brilliance as I'm swept up in amorphous dust.

The heart looks into space to be away from earth.

I've never seen any ghost, but I definitely believe that there's some sort of something spiritual out there. I mean, there has to be.

Assimilation of the fruits of each past life takes place before the spirit descends to rebirth, and consequently, the character generated is fully formed and readily expressed in the subtle, mobile mind-stuff of the Region of Concrete Thought, where the archetype of the coming dense body is built.