Spook: Chapter 9

5 Comments

1] X-Rays today are a humble diagnostic tool.
2] Hommeforce means Man force in French.
3] Schwartz's experimental data have led him to the conclusion that there are people - rare and gifted mediums - who can communicate with people who have died.
4] John Edwards was one of Schwartz's "dream team" of mediums tested in the Afterlife Experiments work.
5] Thouless died in 1984, and the Thouless Project, headed up by emeritus University of Virginia professor Ian Stevenson, was born.

4 Questions
1] What was the Thouless Project?
2] How do you know if you're a medium or not?
3] How do you know if a discarante was really coming through, and not some product of a mediums imagination or subconscious?
4] How do you read a encoded message

3 Vocabulary
1] Succulent: full of juice; juicy.
2] Discarnate: without a physical body; incorporeal.
3] Paranormal: of or pertaining to the claimed occurrence of an event or perception without scientific explanation, as psychokinesis, extrasensory perception, or other purportedly supernatural phenomena.

2 Literary Terms
1] "For a man who takes an extraordinary amount of professional guff, he is resiliently good-natured, a Pooh Bear among the skeptic society Eeyores." -Metaphor.
2] "Spirits walk, but some ride about in chariots.." -Metaphor.

1 Overview Sentence
Mediums were rare to find and they could communicate with the dead.