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" rational' beliefs are based on evidence exactly similar in nature to that which mystics quote for theirs. Our senses, namely, have assured us of certain states of fact; but mystical experiences are as direct perceptions of fact for those who have them... "
Religious Experience - Page 153
by Wayne Proudfoot - 1987 - 290 pages
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The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature

William James - 1902 - 558 pages
...boards, as if I had been on a bed of and in point of logic it absolutely escapes our jurisdiction. Our own more "rational" beliefs are based on evidence...who have them as any sensations ever were for us. The records show that even though the five senses be in abeyance in them, they are absolutely sensational...
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THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE

WILLIAM JAMES - 1902 - 566 pages
...utmost efforts, as a matter of fact, and in point of logic it absolutely escapes our jurisdiction. Our own more ' rational' beliefs are based on evidence...but mystical experiences are as direct perceptions 1 I abstract from weaker states, and from those cases of which the books are full, where the director...
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The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature; Being the ...

William James - 1902 - 560 pages
...drink of the same river of peace which my God gave so largely to me." Journal, London, no date, p. 172. of fact for those who have them as any sensations ever were for us. The records show that even though the five senses be in abeyance in them, they are absolutely sensational...
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A Psychological Study of Religion: Its Origin, Function, and Future

James Henry Leuba - 1912 - 410 pages
...utmost efforts, as a matter of fact, and in point of logic it absolutely escapes our jurisdiction. Our own more ' rational ' beliefs are based on evidence...who have them as any sensations ever were for us. The records show that even though the five senses be in abeyance in them, they are absolutely sensational...
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A Psychological Study of Religion: Its Origin, Function, and Future

James Henry Leuba - 1912 - 414 pages
...utmost efforts, as a matter of fact, and in point of logic it absolutely escapes our jurisdiction. Our own more ' rational ' beliefs are based on evidence...who have them as any sensations ever were for us. The records show that even though the five senses be in abeyance in them, they are absolutely sensational...
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A Psychological Study of Religion: Its Origin, Function, and Future

James Henry Leuba - 1912 - 408 pages
...immediately to exist. The mystic is, in short, invulnerable." i " They have been ' there ' and know " ; " mystical experiences are as direct perceptions of...those who have them as any sensations ever were for us " ; " the mystic is in short invulnerable," — these affirmations involve the confusion we have just...
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A Creed for College Men

Hugh Anderson Moran - 1924 - 160 pages
...the mystics who would think of condemning them as madmen. Professor James further states (p. 423), "Our own more 'rational' beliefs are based on evidence...who have them as any sensations ever were for us." When one of the world's leading psychologists and philosophers declares that "Mystical experiences...
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The Open Court, Volume 41

Paul Carus - 1927 - 830 pages
...our utmost efforts as a matter of fact, and in point of logic it absolutely escapes our jurisdiction. Our own more 'rational' beliefs are based on evidence...for theirs. Our senses, namely, have assured us of fact ; but mystical experiences are as direct perceptions of fact for those who have them as any sensations...
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William James: Writings 1902-1910 (LOA #38): The Varieties of Religious ...

William James - 1988 - 1410 pages
...utmost efforts, as a matter of fact, and in point of logic it absolutely escapes our jurisdiction. Our own more 'rational' beliefs are based on evidence...who have them as any sensations ever were for us. The records show that even though the five senses be in abeyance in them, they are absolutely sensational...
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Philosophy of Science and the Occult: Second Edition

Patrick Grim - 1990 - 408 pages
...utmost efforts, as a matter of fact, and in point of logic it absolutely escapes our jurisdiction. Our own more "rational" beliefs are based on evidence...assured us of certain states of fact; but mystical ex356 periences are as direct perceptions of fact for those who have them as any sensations ever were...
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