Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death

Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death
ISBN-10
0143038958
ISBN-13
9780143038955
Series
Ghost Hunters
Category
Body, Mind & Spirit
Pages
384
Language
English
Published
2007-05-29
Publisher
Penguin
Author
Deborah Blum

Description

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Poision Squad and The Poisoner's Handbook 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 their reputations, their careers, even their sanity on one of the most extraordinary quests ever undertaken: to empirically prove the existence of ghosts, spirits, and psychic phenomena. What they pursued—and what they found—raises questions as fascinating today as they were then.

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