Spook by Mary Roach

Author:Mary Roach [Roach, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Religion, Body; Mind & Spirit, Religion & Science, Afterlife & Reincarnation
ISBN: 9781921145643
Publisher: Text Publishing
Published: 2006-10-02T00:00:00+00:00

ALLISON DUBOIS IS seated in a striped armchair in one of the four rooms that make up the Human Energy Systems Laboratory. (At the time I visited, the lab was a converted two-bedroom stucco house owned by the university; it has since moved to a twenty-room suite near the medical school.) Schwartz and Beischel sit in matching armchairs behind DuBois, so their expressions can’t be seen by the medium. On a wall is a placard with the Human Energy Systems Laboratory logo: a heart, a rainbow, and a human form with its arms outstretched, expressing love or joy or the size of the fish he caught, as people seem to do on New Age book covers. We’ve reached the postexperimental phase, where Schwartz is going to ask Keen, via DuBois, some questions of his own.

Schwartz’s questions are paced and deliberate, adding an air of suspense to the room and making DuBois knit her brow. “Does this person…have…a message he’d like conveyed to his wife?” DuBois crosses and uncrosses her bone-china ankles. The air conditioner breathes.

“She’s got new curtains.”

Schwartz blinks in his seat. He’s the boy who wanted trucks and got a chemistry set. “Mmm. Can he show us—”

DuBois cuts him off. Abruptly and with seeming certainty, she says: “He went down at a podium…. Like…” She snapsher fingers. “He falls, he goes down at a podium. Like an assembly. And he goes down at a podium. Is that odd? That’s what he’s showing. The man that died at the podium.”

This is what Schwartz means by a dazzle shot. In my head, I did in fact go, Wow. Its dazzle is dimmed slightly by Schwartz having at one point asked DuBois whether the discarnate had “communicated to anyone else activities related to this research project,” which affords a hint that the mystery entity might have been a fellow researcher. And if DuBois had heard about Keen’s untimely and public death—which was the talk of the paranormal community a couple months back (even I had heard about it)—it might, at this point, have come to mind. Still, the suddenness and sureness of her statements don’t jibe with a hunch or a fishing trip.

But what about all the statements that didn’t seem to fit with Keen? Schwartz says it’s possible that multiple discarnates come through when a medium opens up the channels; “crosstalk” is the official lingo they use. (“Fudge factor” is lingo I might use.) So it’s up to the sitter, then, to pick out what’s meant for him or her, and disregard the rest.

Or to interpret the statements more loosely. Take, as an example, some of the things DuBois said about my mother. Just before she began the Keen reading, DuBois stopped the proceedings to say that she was concerned that she might be getting crosstalk from my mother and from the father of a cameraman who was shooting the proceedings for a documentary. Both of whom are in fact dead. I later asked her what else she could tell me.

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