| William James - 1902 - 558 pagini
...morbid fiber in its composition, would be sure to hide forever from its self-satisfied possessors? If there were such a thing as inspiration from a higher...the chief condition of the requisite receptivity. And having said thus much, I think that I may let the matter of religion and neuroticism drop. The... | |
| William James - 1902 - 604 pagini
...morbid fibre in its composition, would be sure to hide forever from its self-satisfied possessors? (R there were such a thing as inspiration from a higher...neurotic temperament would furnish the chief condition of _ the requisite receptryjtyT) And having said thus much, I think that I may let d1e matter of religion... | |
| William James - 1902 - 560 pagini
...morbid fibre in its composition, would be sure to hide forever from its self-satisfied possessors ? LJf there were such a thing as inspiration from a higher...might well be that the neurotic temperament would fuxniak the chief condition of_the requisite receptivity, j And having said thus much,jrthink that... | |
| Annie Besant - 1904 - 490 pagini
...thing as inspiration ' Quoted in Prof. James's book, mentioned above, p. 19. For "mind" read "brain." from a higher realm, it might well be that the neurotic...the chief condition of the requisite receptivity."' When we once recognise that forces subtler than the physical must necessitate for their expression... | |
| Allan Menzies - 1906 - 956 pagini
...sphere of religion. The other ghosts that such an inquiry raise are best answered by Professor James : " If there were such a thing as inspiration from a higher...the chief condition of the requisite receptivity." The differentia of New Testament neurotic facts, if such there be, is their abiding power, their undying... | |
| Lawrence Foster - 1981 - 382 pagini
...ideas possess them, they inflict them, for better or worse, upon their companions or their age. ... If there were such a thing as inspiration from a higher...the chief condition of the requisite receptivity. William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (New York: New American... | |
| William James - 1988 - 1410 pagini
...morbid fibre in its composition, would be sure to hide forever from its self-satisfied possessors? If there were such a thing as inspiration from a higher...the chief condition of the requisite receptivity. And having said thus much, I think that I may let the matter of religion and neuroticism drop. The... | |
| Russell B. Goodman - 1990 - 182 pagini
..."your robust Philistine type of nervous system, forever offering its biceps to be felt." He speculates that if "there were such a thing as inspiration from...would furnish the chief condition of the requisite receptivity."64 He reminds us of the power that tears, or what he frequently calls "the melting mood,"... | |
| Susan Neville - 1994 - 300 pagini
...metaphysics and mysticism, which "carries one's interests beyond the surface of the sensible world." "If there were such a thing as inspiration from a higher realm," James says, "it might well be that the neurotic temperament would furnish the chief condition of the... | |
| Cristina Mazzoni - 1996 - 260 pagini
...with sainthood." 6 The psychologist William James claimed instead at the beginning of this century that "if there were such a thing as inspiration from...the chief condition of the requisite receptivity." 7 Without contradicting Charcot's or Lombroso's initial axioms (the neurosis of the mystic), James's... | |
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