![]() She takes a "Fundamentals of Mediumship" course in England, and heads out with the International Ghost Hunters Society (14,000 members in 78 countries) to tape-record so-called spirit voices in a national forest in California. Mediums who transcribe their conversations with the dead. Researchers who interview children claiming to be reincarnated. The guy who says he's determined the weight of a dog's soul. In "Spook," she sets off on a skeptic's scavenger hunt to find out if there's any scientific way of proving there is life after death, listening to a whole range of people who have doubtless grown used to people's eyes glazing over - or worse.ĭescribing her undertaking as a "giggly, random, utterly earthbound assault on our most ponderous unanswered question," Roach gives all her subjects their due. Roach has endless patience with people whose ideas are most charitably described as unconventional. ![]() "Most people don't listen nearly as long as you have," the forlorn professor tells her. But he can't find collaborators - a predicament Roach has trouble believing. He wants to test it by putting a live organism in a box with electromagnetic sensors and watching it die. ![]() ![]() A PROFESSOR of obstetrics at an esteemed university explains to Mary Roach his quantum-theory equation to measure the energy lost when the soul departs the body. ![]()
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