…which might happen if he were getting DTs. Oh, I quite agree. I mean, again, I mean, this has been discussed by people like James and others. I mean, one of the ways is undoubtedly the fruits of these things. I mean, if the fruits are obviously as…

…idea what it does. Of course, one may correspond with something simply which isn't the back of all human eyes. Doesn't James say, though, too, that we can accept the fact that people do have such mystic experiences? without accepting their interpretation.…

…don't have a theistic explanation at all. You merely postulate some sort of general underlying substratum of mind, what James himself called cosmic consciousness, I suppose. But, of course, the whole Buddhist philosophy, I mean, anticipates Feuerbach for about…

…of nature, these are astounding in Lawrence. You think of Henry James. Were you ever fond of him? I was never very fond of James. He leaves me very cold on the whole. I read, what did I read? I read The Spoils of Poynton not long ago, which…

…of the 19th century, does the brain secrete thought as the liver secretes bile? Or is it some kind of valve, as James himself, I think, thought, and as certainly as Bergson thought, through which a preexistent mental element finds access into the human…

…animals on the surface of the planet and as social creatures within a society to come through. Well, I don't know. As James says, the both... The points of view are quite difficult from a philosophical point of view to justify, but the transmissive view…

…fellow philosophers thought this was infradig that an eminent philosopher should resort to these chemical means, which enabled, I mean, James remarked that only under nitrous oxide could he understand what Hegel meant. Bergson said that it must be realized…

…under nitrous oxide could he understand what Hegel meant. Bergson said that it must be realized that the experiences which Mr. James describes are not caused by the gas. The gas is merely the occasion. The gas removes certain obstacles which might have…

…doing harm to yourself, so much the better. And incidentally, it's one of the greatest tragedies, I think, in psychological research that James, I think in about 1905, made an experiment with peyote. And as he had a rather weak stomach, all that he got…

…out really efficient methods for implementing this high ideal. Well, let us take a few hints from this. And similarly, on what James calls the moral equivalence of war, these have all been discovered in the past. I mean, the Greeks, for example, knew…

…and critical minds to accept wild facts, facts which don't fit into the current theories has of course been recognized long before James drew attention to it it was recognized for example by Lord Chesterfield when he said that if someone in our days were…

…to be violently attacked by his colleagues and hounded out of the medical profession. This shows, indicates very clearly how right James was to emphasize this fact that people with a vested interest in a certain kind of philosophy find it almost impossible…

…interest in a certain kind of philosophy find it almost impossible to accept facts which go against that particular philosophy. And James himself went on to discuss the reaction in his own day two subjects like telepathy, the word was invented by F.W.H.…

…the thing was extensively studied in the early history, the early years of the Society for Psychical Research after 1882. And James has an interesting comment on this. He says, why do so few scientists, quote, even look at the evidence for telepathy?…

…things without which scientists cannot carry on their pursuits. And this is not an exaggeration because about the time that James was writing this, another eminent biologist, Ray Lancaster, resented, denounced a group of his fellow scientists in Britain for…

…this view, of course, was strongly supported by Bergson and it, as I shall point out later on, it still has its adherence. And James points out that he says that the theory of production is not a jot more simple and credible in itself than any other…

…he called the moral equivalent of war. Well, I don't know how we do this, but it remains an extraordinarily important problem, and James did contribute something to it, but we have to go a good deal further than he went. And here again is another…

…even to talk about something which Bergson described when he spoke of William James. He said that according to his view, James' view, we bathe in an atmosphere traversed by great spiritual currents, The powerful feelings which stir the soul at special…

…of reality enters the human mind and there is a a great profusion of material, and the profusion does, I think here James is quite right, that the profusion is sufficiently great, even in spite of the neurological selection and abstraction which has gone…

…of the liver, whereas thought is of a radically different kind from electrochemical events in the brain. Again, here both Bergson and James were of opinion that the brain is not productive of thought. but act, so to speak, as a kind of reducing valve,…

…more widely knowing in an obscure kind of way, than we normally think we are. That we should realize our identity with what James called cosmic consciousness, and what of course in the East is called the Atman Brahman. that the end of life, according in…

…been brought into the general system. Well now we come to the final problem, the problem of becoming aware of what James called the cosmic consciousness of the Atman Brahman, of the unifying principle. In the Chinese conception, the universe is perceived as…