Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
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| Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife | |
| Author | Mary Roach |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Science |
| Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Publication date | 2005 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover & Paperback) |
| Pages | 311 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-393-32912-7 |
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (2005), published by W. W. Norton & Company, a non-fiction work by Mary Roach who also wrote Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, is a quirky and witty scientific exploration as to whether there is a soul that survives death. In Britain, the title of the book is Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife.
[edit] Book synopsis
Author Mary Roach investigates the possibility of an afterlife, and also various attempts to define and find the soul.
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
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