Dramatic Possibilities
Dramatic Possibilities
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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