discarnate
Americanadjective
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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
Spirit of rain— With all thy mountain mists that wander lonely As a gray train Of souls newly discarnate seeking new life only!
From Song-Surf by Cale Young Rice
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