Description | , Estabrooks' ideas were never taken as seriously as he hoped, perhaps because he believed in human survival of bodily death - in a word, he was a spiritualist. ( 6) Years later, during the Cold War, the CIA would find a use even for this, (see Chapter 7 'Dealings with the Dead') but for the time being, Estabrooks was a shade too weird to be taken seriously. In 1945, at the war's end, he teamed up with ghost writer Richard Lockridge (b.1898) to publicize his ideas in the form of a novel. (7) "Death in the Mind" |