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William James: Psychical Research and the Challenge of Modernity

Krister Dylan Knapp

Print publication date: 2017

Print ISBN-13: 9781469631240

Published to North Carolina Scholarship Online: September 2017

DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469631240.001.0001

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Dramatic Possibilities

Dramatic Possibilities

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(p.172) Five Dramatic Possibilities
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William James
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Krister Dylan Knapp

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University of North Carolina Press
DOI:10.5149/northcarolina/9781469631240.003.0006

Chapter five traces James's role as an investigator of mental mediums purporting to communicate messages from the dead through automatic writing and trance speech. It examines the numerous mediums he studied and shows how and why Mrs. Leonora Piper, the famous Boston Spiritualist medium, convinced him of the “dramatic possibility” that her phenomena were real and genuine.

Keywords:   William James, Spiritualism, Fideism, Will to Believe, Mental Mediumship, Mrs. Piper, White Crows, James Cattell

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