The Varieties of Religious Experience

“If people needed to start with one or if they were only going to read one, where would you have them start? I would suppose the most recognizable of his writing for at least an American audience would probably be the varieties of religious experience.”

“I always come back to the um you know to that challenge, I always come back to the response of William James in his great book in the 19th century the varieties of religious experience”

“still probably the best one of the best works on mystical experience is the chapter in william james's varieties of religious experiences”

“still perhaps the best one of the best works on mystical experience is the chapter in william james's varieties of religious experiences”

“there's a book that I think everybody should read it maybe you've read it William James's book varieties of religious experience it's old written back in 1902 William James great psychologist he gave some lectures in Scotland I think it was at the turn of the century and and he interviewed a whole host of people in order to get”

“and from that I went to read you know William James's book a varieties of religious experience”

“I frankly wish that more people would read William James's book because I do think that it's the kind of”

“and then I just thought I would very briefly mention because I kind of went back this week to one of my favorite books which is um William James's the varieties of religious experience which I wrote about for the paper this week”

“In my case, I thought back to William James who had written in varieties of mystical experience that you can't really judge the veracity of a big insight on a mystical experience”

“And I read Henry William James, and he talks about mystical experiences in Varieties of Religious Experience.”

“I first got acquainted with him when I was working on how to change your mind cuz he'd written the varieties of religious experience, and there's a fantastic chapter there on mystical experience.”

“And I first got acquainted with him when I was working on how to change your mind, because he’d written the varieties of religious experience, and there’s a fantastic chapter there on mystical experience.”

“You know, I think religion, I think Walter Benjamin has a quote in which he said, or no, it's William James, sorry, in the varieties of religious experience that religion is the belief that there's some unseen order to which human society should be converging towards, right?”

“in fact i think james charles taylor has a very interesting book revisiting james the variety's religious experience and he talks about this idea that james looks at people who have religion in this sanguine sense they simply accept their religion that they're born into”

“when I'm 14 and here are about a book called the varieties of the religious experience by William James I spend four months looking for a copy of the book because there is no Amazon yet at finding books in Buffalo”

“I was so fascinated by James' work, which I'd read the varieties of religious experience before, but I went back and read it again.”

“Like again this anthropologist uh Lurman you know she says you know William James is this famous Harvard psychologist wrote a book about the varieties of the religious experience in 1902 and he says everybody wants to kind of be like is it real or not real? is like this world just what we see? And he says, I think”

“if you read William James varieties of religious experience, the famous, you know, the famous attempt to sort of catalog and analyze these experiences, I saw things like that happened to my parents and people I know.”

“And one of my friends who was there was like, 'Yeah, that sounds a lot like Varieties of Religious Experience' by — who's the author? William James.”