discarnate
Example Sentences
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Two years ago, he announced $1 million in grants from his Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies for research "into contact and communication with post-mortem or discarnate consciousness."
From Salon • Apr. 5, 2023
“If we see a shadow going through one wall and through another, we don’t know for sure if it was a discarnate human spirit or E.T.,” he said.
From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2021
We already inhabit a world in which we’re subject to the opaque judgments of discarnate algorithms with eyes and ears everywhere and bodies nowhere.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 15, 2019
Lying on his back, staring at a ceiling he could not see, Ben felt discarnate, a voiceless body buried accidentally, smelling the top of the coffin for the first time.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
Any communications that a discarnate entity can send must, to be intelligible to us, be in human earth-language; and this language is based on sense-experience.
From Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. by Hill, J. Arthur
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
