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Interestingly, some of the greatest thinkers, including William James and Arthur Conan Doyle, were surprisingly open to the possibility that paranormal experiences bear some reality. James, the father of psychology, suggested that many such phenomena might be real, especially in periods of grief—like his own mourning after his son's death. Doyle, famous for Sherlock Holmes, became a spiritualist after personal tragedy. These figures' willingness to entertain the paranormal highlights that even the most rational minds acknowledge our psychological vulnerabilities and the limitations of current scientific understanding.