The Demons of William James: Religious Pragmatism Explores Unusual Mental States

1. James Family Vastation
            1.1 Clarifying the "Demonic"
            1.2 The Value of the Unusual

1.3 The 1906 Earthquake, with Aftershocks

1.4 The Vastation of Swedenborg

1.5 The Vastation of Henry James the Elder

1.6 The Vastation of William James

1.7 The Vastation of Henry James

2.1 Clashing Temperaments and Pragmatic Dissolutions
            2.2 Skeptical Challenges

2.3 A Demonological Case Study

            3.1 The Spectacle of Hypnotism

            3.2 Socially Conditioned Demonic Possession

            3.4 Possessing Mrs. Piper

            3.5 Dr. Phinuit, the Fraudulent Frenchman

4. Contemporary Mediums and the Return of William James

            4.1 James Dances with Susy Smith

            4.2 James Speaks with Jane Roberts

            4.3 James Speaks Again with Smith

            4.4 Report on the James Controls

            4.5 The Demons of Allison DuBois

            4.6 The Demons of John Edward

4.7 Hunting for the Big H 

5. The Varieties of Demonic Experience: A Study in Quasi-Human Nature

            5.1 Functional Demonology

            5.2 Personal Demonology

            5.4 Technological Demonology

6. Embraced by the Demon: The Perils of Immediate Experience

            6.2 The Demons of Swedenborg

7. The "Cruel" Death of William James

7.2 The Unpardonable Sin

7.3 Suggestibility and Sacrifice

7.4 Demons Hidden Since the Foundation of the World