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The Varieties of Religious Experience

William James

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What this book knows

Religious experience is psychologically real and humanly transformative, regardless of whether its metaphysical claims can be verified.

Sex: Absent
Work: Absent
Learning: Present
Religion: Primary

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transformation

'I simply said: Lord, I have done all I can; I leave the whole matter with Thee; and immediately there came to me a great peace.'
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faith-and-doubt

All at once, without warning of any kind, I found myself wrapped in a flame-colored cloud—a paradigm case of unbidden mystical onset.
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Mystical states break down the authority of the rationalistic consciousness, showing it to be only one kind of consciousness.
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Science has utterly repudiated the personal point of view, careless of human anxieties and fates—leaving religion to stand on its own ground.
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self-and-identity

Everything I saw seemed a burden; all trees and vales seemed conspiring my ruin—my sins laid open so every one knew them.
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Unsuspectedly from the bottom of every fountain of pleasure something bitter rises up, bringing a feeling of coming from a deeper region.
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