discarnate

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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

On the whole, the evidence tends more and more to suggest that in at least some instances these happenings are due to the agency of a discarnate mind.

From Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. by Hill, J. Arthur