I will be doing regular readings of all my books from the last Ten years, in lieu of my new book "Coeval of the Hedonic" (A.Glass 2025) which needs to be settled for at least a month, before the readings will begin. Reading: "Machines of the Occultus" from the novel 'The Graft of Shadows" (A.Glass 2019)

“Well, my background is an investigative journalist, I worked for an online news network, which the viewers may or may not be aware of went bankrupt. So, one of my roles as a journalist was to cover science and astronomy reports and also...” Lillias chuckles. “...the Paranormal phenomenon.”
“Contradictions,” the young male host says.
Lillias nods with a smile. “Which are healthy...In this discussion, hence my interest in combining the two with my investigative research which ended up being the book, Spooky mechanics of an entangled World to see if there are parallels within the science of the paranormal, more so ghosts and the connection to points in time, in the now, which...I will be careful here...” Lillias leans back in her chair folding her legs over, whilst placing her joined hands onto her left knee. “...May or may not have a scientific or neurological answer.”
“Hence, the term Neuro-paranormal investigator.”
“Yes, that is correct,” Lillias replies.
“The premise of the book, deals with history being stored as a cognitive process. There are two chapters that discuss the importance of senses and their role in Neuro-paranormal investigations, such as sight and sounds. Could you elaborate on those topics.”
“Sure, but I also dedicated a whole chapter to scent and smells. Known as Proustian memory, named after the philosopher Proust would recall his aunt's house from the scent of tea-soaked madeleine. Smells can induce vivid life memories. As an important aspect of history stored within those four senses, which also includes the sensation of taste. What is interesting about the psychological, as far as reconnecting history within the senses, the difficulty in writing that section of the book was trying to determine which of the senses calibrated the most as a historic perspective of what could be, say, an experience of past memories that in turn lead to a visual projection of one’s personal history.”
“Ghosts?”
“Possibly they a connection within dormant memories of past recollections that become activated through the senses, the mind, visually in some cases cannot determine in an ocular perspective aspect of a phenomenon.”
The host smiles as he checks over some of his notes. “Also in the last chapter of the book you discuss, what could be the more science fiction side of things, of Parallel Universe or worlds merging with ours that may, in a speculative sense, cause a ghostly apparition to materialize.”
“Yes, within that chapter the physicist Chris Lentas kindly assisted in elaborating a theory in which he and other physicists have proposed, and which I feel holds a tantalizing idea, that we interact with Phantom Universes, as they move in and out of our Universe. This interaction within the wave function of quantum physics, which says that a particle and wave pattern can exist in multiple states at once, actually, within the Phantom Universe it occurs in its single state, but very briefly as it passes through our reality. This gets a little complex, but I kept it as simple as I could within that chapter, but imagine that shadows of photons are passing through us right now and we had a way of capturing them. The theory suggestion that we could reveal the light from that other Universe. And we, as living beings even when we are dead, emit the photon energy.”
“Light from another Universe?”
“Yes, as a ghostly apparition for a brief moment in time as we move through that Universe and they move through us. Imprints or apparitions of the past and present merging into a single point in time.”
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Reading:  "Machines of the Occultus" from the novel 'The Graft of Shadows' (A.Glass 2019)