Table of Contents
Introduction 11
1 You Again A visit to the reincarnation nation 21
2 The little Man Inside the Sperm, or Possibly the Big Toe Hunting the soul with microscopes and scalpels 55
3 How to Weigh a Soul What happens when a man (or a mouse, or a leech) dies on a scale 77
4 The Vienna Sausage Affair And other dubious highlights of the ongoing effort to see the soul 107
5 Hard to Swallow The giddy, revolting heyday of ectoplasm 121
6 The Large Claims of the Medium Reaching out to the dead in a University of Arizona lab 149
7 Soul in a Dunce Cap The author enrolls in medium school 169
8 Can You Hear Me Now? Telecommunicating with the dead 179
9 Inside the Haunt Box Can electromagnetic fields make you hallucinate? 213
10 Listening to Casper Apsychoacoustics expert sets up camp in England's haunted spots 225
11 Chaffin v. the Dead Guy in the Overcoat In which the law finds for a ghost, and the author calls in an expert witness 239
12 Six Feet Over A computer stands by on an operating room ceiling, awaiting near-death experiencers 261
Last Words 291
Acknowledgments 295
Bibliography 297