She joins us today from Oakland, California. And her previous book is Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers. As I say, Mary Roach is the author of Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife, just out in paperback from Norton.
And we're going to talk with her about what science has to say about the afterlife and whether the search for proof has changed her belief. Well, Mary Roach went and looked for the scientific proof. So it's no surprise that she grew up to be skeptical of the idea of life after death, whether it's the soul's passage to heaven, reincarnation into another being, or the channeling of departed loved one's messages through a medium.Īnd in her most recent book, Spook, Mary Roach puts these beliefs about the afterlife to the test, seeking out those who are searching for scientific proof of, among other things, things like the soul or reincarnation or near-death out-of-body experiences, the dead communicating with the living. My next guest spent her childhood questioning the Bible stories her mother told her, figuring that the walls of Jericho fell because of a well-timed earthquake and that Jesus walked on water thanks to an offshore atoll just below the surface.
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