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Article: Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death.(Book review)
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- November 1, 2006
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*** 1/2 Ghost Hunters William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death By Deborah Blum
Who are you gonna call?
At the height of the spiritualism craze that swept Europe and America in the late 19th century, that burgeoning community of spiritualists counted among its devotees such luminaries as David Hume, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alfred Tennyson, John Ruskin, Lewis Carroll, Arthur Conan Doyle, Mark Twain, and the father of modern American psychology, William James. After the death of his infant son, James sought solace in the apparent supernatural talents of a gifted medium, Leonora Piper. Only with difficulty did James maintain his ...