Even the Dead Rise Up, and the political becomes personal. McKee’s observations of séances, scientific advances, group education outings, Kurdish protests for the ‘disappeared’, become mixed with his own visions: a spirit reappears, haunting the author; histories of isolated early Christians and twentieth century mystics affect his own psyche. The relation between political resistance and Spiritiualism is cast as a heretical force, a hauntology, and a millenarian energy, celebrating the ecstatic moment. In a format that is influenced by forms of 1960s new journalism, in which reporter pushes language to match the raw material of the stories, the reader follows the author, as he is tipped into a resynchronised world by forces and refined codes, and heretical energy that is out of his control.