Book Synopsis
Author Mary Roach investigates the possibility of an afterlife and also attempts to find and define the soul, all while using a scientific approach. Roach takes a close look at the research, both current and historical, on what may or may not happen after we die.
The book covers these topics:
- Investigations of reincarnation
- Attempts to find the soul (by dissection, weighing, and other methods)
- Spiritualism, fraudulent mediums, and ectoplasm
- Modern mediumship, and "medium schools"
- Attempts to use electronic devices to communicate with the dead, including electronic voice phenomena (EVP)
- Other forces that make people feel haunted electromagnetic fields, infrasound, etc.
- Court cases involving ghosts
- near-death experiences and out-of-body experiences
Read more about this topic: Spook: Science Tackles The Afterlife
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