William James on psychical research

Intro. and concluding remarks by Gardner Murphy.

Introduction - Gardner Murphy. Part 1 - Early impressions. Review by William James of Planchette, 1869. Part 2 - General statements. What psychical research has accomplished, 1897. On mediumship from the Principles of Psychology, 1890. Address by the president (W.J.), 1896. Part 3 - Clairvoyance, levitation, and "the astral body'. A case of clairvoyance, 1903. Physical phenomena at a private circle, 1909. A possible case of projection of the double, 1909. Part 4 - William James and Mrs. Piper. Report of the Committee on Mediumistic Phenomena, 1886-1889. Letters. Certain phenomena of trance, 1890. Letters on the Hodgson-Control. Report on Mrs. Piper's Hodgson-Control, 1909. Part 5 - William James and Frederic Myers. Introduction by Gardner Murphy. Myers's service to psychology, 1901. Review of Myers's Human personality and its survival of bodily death, 1903. Part 6 - Religion and the problems of the soul and immortality. Introductory remarks. On the theory of the soul, from the Principles of psychology, 1890. Letters and miscellany, 1862-1908. Human immortality, two supposed objections to the doctrine; The Ingersoll lecture, 1898. Part 7 - The last report. The final impressions of a psychical researcher, 1909. In retrospect - Gardner Murphy

'William James, deeply committed throughout his life to the spirit of science, insisted with passionate intensity that there is no place in science for rigid orthodoxy. It was precisely in the awkward facts of experience that he looked for clues to an enlargement of science and of our understanding of the very strange universe in which we live. Psychical phenomena cauught his attention at an early age....'

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