Destination Unlimited

Air Date - 05 February 2025Does modern American fiction portray ghosts in a new light with continued consciousness and new approaches to spirituality? My guest this week on Destination Unlimited, medium, scholar, and author Dr. Karen Frances McCarthy, joins me to share her doctoral dissertation, The Re-enchanted Ghost: Spectral Literature in 21st-century America. Dr. McCarthy is a respected medium with a deep interest in the intersections of literature, spirituality, and culture. Her books include The Other Irish, which was adopted by the Irish government’s Anti-Sectarian and Reconciliation initiative as a cultural outreach project, and Till Death Don’t Us Part, which explores existential questions and awakening to the concept of continued consciousness in the aftermath of her fiancé’s death. A former journalist and war correspondent, she has become an accomplished scholar whose writing often touches on themes of spirituality and re-enchantment and encourages readers to engage deeply with questions of empathy