The Ghost Hunters: William James and the Hunt for Scientific Proof of Life after Death
By Deborah Blum
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning author tells the amazing story of William James's quest for empirical evidence of the spirit world
What if a world -renowned philosopher and professor of psychiatry at Harvard suddenly announced he believed in ghosts? At the close of the nineteenth century, the illustrious William James led a determined scientific investigation into 'unexplainable' incidences of clairvoyance and ghostly visitations. James and a small group of eminent scientists staked th…
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