…stem out of New Thought and Christian Science, out of Quimby and so on. And you know, already 50 years ago, William James pointed this out, that New Thought was probably the American contribution to modern religion. I mean, they've taken over certain…

…revolution for about seven or eight hours with almost no physiological effects. Continued on the other side of the tape. William James, when he was experimenting with nitrous oxide, and he was violently attacked for using anything so discreditable as a drug,…

…without harming his neighbours. This is not past the wit of man to devise these methods. I mean, this was something which William James, years ago, discussed in his essay, The Moral Equivalence of War. This is an inadequate essay, but it touches on an…

…experiences, the neurological and the subjective. And then we, I suppose, on the philosophical level, we have to make the decision which William James posed for us. I mean, he says perfectly obvious that mind is a function of the nervous system, but is it…

…these very strange substances like psilocybin and lysergic acid, I think there is a great deal to be said for doing what William James talked about, for getting people to realize that their ordinary sort of common-sense view of the world is not the only…

…of sort of removing obstacles. I mean, the justification here was stated by Bergson years ago when he was defending William James against... his use of nitrous oxide. A number of fellow philosophers thought this was infradig that an eminent philosopher…

…product of violence, which is also a cause of all kinds of of evil tendencies, can be worked off. Now, years ago, William James wrote an essay, which is still very interesting, called The Moral Equivalence of War, where he laid out some ideas for finding…

…somehow have to find ways in which they can express themselves, but express themselves in a harmless and, if possible, beneficent way. William James raised the problem in his essay, The Moral Equivalence of War. The essay is not a very good essay. I mean,…

…not damage other people or damage the person directly involved? Now, this was discussed in one of its aspects long ago by William James in his essay, The Moral Equivalent of War. This is an interesting essay. It points out that this desire for heroic…

…not damage other people or damage the person directly involved. Now this was... discussed in one of its aspects long ago by William James in his essay, The Moral Equivalent of War. This is an interesting essay. It points out that this desire for heroic…

…the other part of of the mind Experiments, of course, have been made by eminent psychologists for a long time. William James, for example, made considerable experiments with nitrous oxide and incidentally was much blamed by some of his colleagues for such…

Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, I propose to begin this lecture with a rather long quotation from William James. It's extremely relevant to our purpose and it has a great deal of charm as all James's writing has. This is what he says. To know one…

…us of necessity into postulating this kind of naturalistic, materialistic monism? Well, this question was discussed many years ago by William James in his Ingersoll lecture on human immortality, and he said Of course, it does not necessarily mean that we…

…this conception of this underlying, undifferentiated consciousness, this divine ground, this mother sea of cosmic consciousness, as William James called it, with which, by suitable practices, individuals can become aware, become unified even during this life.…

…to impose upon the world by means of symbols a meaning and sense. The world as it's presented to us directly, as in William James' words, a blooming, buzzing confusion. And we have to use our minds and our symbol systems in order to impose some kind of…

…non-physical dynamism in the external world. It seems 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…

…it. But before language has been introduced, what sort of a world is the world of immediate non-verbalized experience? William James spoke of the world of immediate experience in very characteristic phrase as a blooming, buzzing confusion. The idea being…

…the perceptions of small children have revealed that immediate experience really isn't quite as blooming and as buzzing as William James supposed The thing which is, I think, emerged most strikingly from recent scientific developments is that, of course, the…

…we plunge. And above this, enveloping it and interpenetrating with it, I think we may also have to postulate something which William James spoke of as cosmic consciousness, which Bergson spoke of as mind in the capital M. embracing this whole thing. I…

…with the Maine de Biron in the 18th century, and going on with Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, and more recently with Bergson, William James, and Dewey, the I has been defined as the creature who wills, that instead of cogito ergo sum, the phrase should…

…that every monad was potentially omniscient. And in modern times you have the same conception in Bergson, the same conception in William James, both of whom were of opinion that the consciousness that we have is simply a kind of filtering down of some…