…the inevitable disappointment, the reformulation of the fetish, so forth and so on. This is what occupies us. You know, it was William James, I think, who said, if we don't read the books with which we line our apartments, then we are no better than…

…that's what it does. Boundaries are creations of culture. Remember the child lying underneath the spinning things in its crib? William James, great psychologist of the turn of the century, said, we are born into a bloomingde, buzzing confusion. That's what.…

…you know, put your hand on the radio? I mean, this is not a scientific paradigm in action. This is pure voodoo. It was William James who said, if we don't read the books with which we line our apartments, we are no better than our cats, some dogs.…

…of consciously expressed material. The problem is we're not making good use of it. I mean, in a microcosm. I think it was William James who said, it's fine that we line our rooms with books, but if we don't read those books, we're no better off than…

…about 19, 45, 55 years make it very little happened. Mescaline did nothing, though. It was taken by Havelock Ellis and William James and F. Weir Mitchell. And it did not spawn a craze. It did not influence large numbers of intellectuals, particularly then…

…detector construct of the mind and replace it with something else. And then we can talk about what is the something else William James said of the newborn infant he said we are born into a blooming, buzzing confusion, which is a pretty good description…

…then the inevitable disappointment, the reformulation of the fetish, so forth and so on. This is what occupies us. You know it was William James I think, who said: if we don't read the books with which we line our apartments then we are no better than…

…dissolving the boundaries of self culture and ego assumption. And then what you discover is not the white light or what William James called a blooming, buzzing confusion, although in the first few minutes it can be like that but what you really discover…

…vast amount of consciously expressed material. The problem is we are not making good use of it. In a microcosm I think it was William James who said it's fine that we line our rooms with books but if we don't read those books we are no better off…

…in any animal and certainly it's the most complex thing any of us ever learns to do. We're born into what William James calls a blooming buzzing confusion but by the acquisition of words we mosaic over various sectors of this blooming buzzing confusion.…

…what he called the perennial philosophy. And so I started reading both the scholars of mysticism such as Evelyn Underhill and William James, Varieties of the religious experience and so forth and so on and I started reading the primary sources: Teresa of…

…niece in the 15th letter, and so forth and so on. And the task is to hold it in your mind. I think it was William James who said: if we don't read the books with which we carefully line our apartments then we're no better than our dogs and cats.…

…to dissolve belief systems and they do this very well and then they leave you with the raw datum of experience what William James called in talking, of infants, a blooming, buzzing confusion is what they leave you with: the raw datum of experience, and…

…vast amount of consciously expressed material. The problem is we're not making good use of it. In a microcosm I think it was William James who said: it's fine that we line our rooms with books, but if we don't read those books we're no better off than…

…to say that consciousness is short term memory plus attention. This is the new buzzword: short term memory plus attention. Actually William James said this first but it's just been brought forward and if you think about it that's a pretty good working…

…then the inevitable disappointment, the reformulation of the fetish, so forth and so on this is what occupies us. You know it was William James I think who said if we don't read the books with which we line our apartments, then we are no better than…

…As the scientific study of behavior experience and intentionality, humanistic psychology has assisted in the rediscovery of what William James called the stream of consciousness as a proper area of investigation. The groundwork was prepared for the advent…

…up until about 1945 55 years make it very little happened. Mescaline did not, though it was taken by havelock Ellis and William James and f weir Mitchell. It did not spawn a craze. It did not influence large numbers of intellectuals particularly then in…

…dissolving the boundaries of self culture and ego assumption and then what you discover is not the white light or what William James called the blooming, buzzing confusion, although in the first few minutes it can be like that but what you really discover…

…was all tied together. And if you untied it, it completely deflated and you were left staring into something analogous to William James' description of an infant's world. You were left staring into a blooming, buzzing confusion. What is that? What are the…

…was all tied together and if you untied it it completely deflated and you were left staring into something analogous to William James Description of an infant's world. You were left staring into a blooming, buzzing confusion. Well you know what is that…

…Dissolving the boundaries of self culture and ego assumption. And then what you discover is not the white light or what William James called the blooming, buzzing confusion, although in the first few minutes it can be like that but what you really discover…

…of the citizens with concepts. Concepts replace reality. You come into the world with a blank slate and everything is what William James called a blooming, buzzing confusion. Well then one by one you isolate phenomena in this confusion and you name it.…

…cannot help but do this. It does it uh in the following manner: a child born into what the psychologist William James called a blooming buzzing confusion, a child born into the blooming buzzing confusion, attempts to isolate complexes of activity, complexes…