More Things you can do when you are Dead

This is the follow-up to Trish's previous book, with 'more' added to the title. As with the first one, the treatment of the subject is down-to-earth and based on 30 years of fieldwork and extensive knowledge of the relevant literature. As such, this puts Trish in a strong position to convey the strength of the evidence as well as objections - frequently uninformed - to this line of enquiry. The various chapters cover materialisation, dropping communicators, earthbound spirits, poltergeists, possession and possession, reincarnation and mediumship. There is also an excellent chapter on paranormal healing with 15 first hand case histories. Communications come through many channels and the cumulative weight of evidence is very considerable - most objections are in fact metaphysical based on the philosophical conviction that such events are in principle impossible, in spite of the many intellectually reputable people who have investigated them. Swedenborg makes a welcome appearance at two places in the book. Trish makes a good case for continuing fieldwork to complement laboratory studies. The only unsatisfactory chapter was a very short one on quantum thinking, where the point made could incorporated elsewhere in the narrative. I enjoyed the final comment on Richard Hodgson ostensibly communicating as himself to a sceptical team who exclaimed 'Well, if I'm not Hodgson, he never lived!" An informative and stimulating read.