Summary of Sarah Krasnostein's The Believer

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The death doula is a trained professional who provides emotional, physical, and educational support to families before, during, and after the death of a loved one.
#2 Annie is a professional mediator who helps clients find solutions to their problems. She is highly trained and has to be able to support herself if she is to continue providing this type of service. She is a perpetual intimate stranger.
#3 Annie’s interest in dying and death is not morbid, but rather just lacking in discussion. She was raised by her mother and sister after her parents split up when she was six months old, and she remembers being left in the dark about what was going to happen next.
#4 The difference between life and the story of a life is that life is full of details and stories, while the story of a life is just a narrative. Annie’s sister did not know who she was for a long time, and a rift developed between them as a result.

Sujets

• Culture
• Social
• Anthropology
• Sociologie, société et politique
• Social Science

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 01 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669397243
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Sarah Krasnostein's The Believer
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The death doula is a trained professional who provides emotional, physical, and educational support to families before, during, and after the death of a loved one.

#2

Annie is a professional mediator who helps clients find solutions to their problems. She is highly trained and has to be able to support herself if she is to continue providing this type of service. She is a perpetual intimate stranger.

#3

Annie’s interest in dying and death is not morbid, but rather just lacking in discussion. She was raised by her mother and sister after her parents split up when she was six months old, and she remembers being left in the dark about what was going to happen next.

#4

The difference between life and the story of a life is that life is full of details and stories, while the story of a life is just a narrative. Annie’s sister did not know who she was for a long time, and a rift developed between them as a result.

#5

Ghost research is difficult, because things happen outside of your attention. You can set up cameras and sit there with an intense focus, but nothing will happen. It’s when you’re taking a coffee break that something comes up.

#6

The Ark Encounter is a full-size Noah’s ark, built according to the dimensions in the Bible, that rests on an endless expanse of grass in the middle of nowhere. It is as advertised: a spectacle that eloquently illustrates the absurdity of creationism.

#7

Annie’s husband took the boxes of her childhood books, which she had just moved from her mother’s house, and burned them. She understood this not in punitive terms, but rather because he wasn’t a reader and couldn’t conceive of the books’ significance to her.

#8

The Real Ghostbusters of Australia Conference is a gathering of parapsychologists, ghost hunters, and psychics. They meet up to discuss their experiences and interests.

#9

Empirical evaluation of spontaneous out-of-body experiences is difficult. It is difficult to find someone who can have them on demand, and it is difficult to find someone who can have them and explain them without being dismissed as being mentally ill.

#10

At the conclusion of the meditation, Misha/Amber shared with the group that she was sensing the presence of a man who had died as violently as he had lived. She saw him hogtied, wriggling as he was killed by his fellow criminals.

#11

At the former Ararat Lunatic Asylum, Vlad and his colleague saw an orange ball of light in the doorway. They assumed it was someone trespassing who had a torch. They went looking for the source of the light, but didn’t find anything.

#12

The more you research ghosts, the more you realize that it’s not just physics. It’s physics plus the psychology of whatever might be there, and a lot of these things don’t want to play by the rules.

#13

I remember being extremely scared of my grandparents’ house as a child, because it was so beautiful on the outside and so empty on the inside. I was always afraid that I would see a ghost there.

#14

The Creation Museum is a museum dedicated to the Bible’s account of creation. It features numerous exhibits and films that promote a literal interpretation of the book of Genesis.

#15

The Museum of Corruption takes you on a tour of the world as it might have been, had humans not sinned. It shows you the Garden of Eden, the Camp of Disgrace, and the Grave of Forgetting.

#16

The museum is a history of humanity, from the corruption of Adam to the confusion of Babel. It is not all bad news, however, as God promises that a day will come when he will judge sin and take away the curse.

#17

Annie’s father left when she was six months old. She met her husband when she was fourteen, three years older, over a foot taller. She had an abortion when she was sixteen.

#18

Annie’s marriage was extremely unhappy. She was alone when her water broke, and she had her son in a telephone booth. She tried to leave her husband, but he brought her back to get custody of the boys.

#19

Annie’s focus is on letting in rather than on letting go. She finds language for everything that is stifled by the dark silence that society insists on draping over the dying and those they leave behind.

#20

The silence around death doesn’t make anything easier. It only breeds disconnection, isolation, and fear. We must address the negative things in our lives, but we must also be kind and patient with each other.

#21

The Creation Museum’s 4D movie/lecture theater is a perfect example of how the world mocks the ark. It looks like a fairytale, which promotes the idea that the flood was fiction.

#22

The more people there are in the world, the more world there is between them, and the richer that world becomes. Because of this, the human world is inherently conflicted.

#23

We are the only animals who can think about our thinking, but that doesn’t mean we can be relied on to do it particularly well. We are prone to a wide range of cognitive biases, and we always favor information that confirms our preconceptions.

#24

At the end of the dark hallway, Lee stands on the threshold of a small room, enthusiastically explaining how he was physically pushed out of it moments ago by an invisible entity with a touch that felt like a hand on his skin.