![]() Her historical wanderings unearth soul-seeking philosophers who rummaged through cadavers and calves' heads, a North Carolina lawsuit that established legal precedence for ghosts, and the last surviving sample of "ectoplasm" in a Cambridge University archive. Mary Roach, Author of Fuzz, Grunt, Packing for Mars, Stiff, Spook and Bonk. ![]() Along the way, she enrolls in an English medium school, gets electromagnetically haunted at a university in Ontario, and visits a Duke University professor with a plan to weigh the consciousness of a leech. ![]() She begins the journey in rural India with a reincarnation researcher and ends up in a University of Virginia operating room where cardiologists have installed equipment near the ceiling to study out-of-body near-death experiences. "What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that - the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my lap-top?" In an attempt to find out, Mary Roach brings her tireless curiosity to bear on an array of contemporary and historical soul-searchers: scientists, schemers, engineers, mediums, all trying to prove (or disprove) that life goes on after we die. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife book by Mary Roach Religion & Spirituality Books > New Age Books Dumping Debt Rated: G (General Audience) See Customer Reviews Select Format Hardcover 5.89 - 37.49 Paperback 5.19 - 13.59 Audio CD - MP3 CD 40.89 Select Condition Like New Unavailable Very Good - Good 5.49 Acceptable 5.19 New 13. ![]()
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