Our contemporary world is not centered on what is perceived as reality in the West. That is too ethnocentric. Similarly, the definition of (and distinction between) life and death are not solely based on Western scientific realities. That is very egocentric. There is so much more to the world, reality, and the concept of "life" than what we read, hear about, view, and learn from various mediated forms. Out there, beyond the "box" constructed by a materialist science, there is an entirely different social realm. This is an "other" culture. It is a "ghost culture," but it too exists today. It...