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...Chicago public library?where he spent his spare time while on a summer job inspecting telephone switchboards???McDonnell chanced upon an obscure book about psychic emanations: Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death, by English Essayist Frederic W. H. Myers. It turned his interest abidingly toward the occult. "I was fascinated with the idea that this realm of the mind and soul and survival after bodily death ought to be susceptible to investigation through a scientific approach," says McDonnell. Rebuffed by one of his Princeton professors when he asked for help in such an inquiry, the eager student attended...
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