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	~~===Definition of~~ Religion~~===~~		[[Religion]]

	<blockquote>...the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine. (James, p. 31)</blockquote><blockquote>"Were one asked to characterize the life of religion in the broadest and most general terms possible, one might say that it consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto."<ref>James, William. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature (p. 53). Kindle Edition.</ref></blockquote><blockquote>...the FOUNDERS of every church owed their power originally to the fact of their direct personal communion with the divine. Not only the superhuman founders, the Christ, the Buddha, Mahomet, but all the originators of Christian sects have been in this case;—so personal religion should still seem the primordial thing, even to those who continue to esteem it incomplete (James 1903, 30).</blockquote>		<blockquote>"Were one asked to characterize the life of religion in the broadest and most general terms possible, one might say that it consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto."<ref>James, William. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature (p. 53). Kindle Edition.</ref></blockquote><blockquote>...the FOUNDERS of every church owed their power originally to the fact of their direct personal communion with the divine. Not only the superhuman founders, the Christ, the Buddha, Mahomet, but all the originators of Christian sects have been in this case;—so personal religion should still seem the primordial thing, even to those who continue to esteem it incomplete (James 1903, 30).</blockquote>

	"Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. We may go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply the requisite stimulus, and at a touch they are there in all their completeness, definite types of mentality which probably somewhere have their field of application and adaptation...<ref>William James, ''The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study of Human Nature'' (New York: Penguin, 1903), 292–93, https://archive.org/details/varietiesreligi03jamegoog/page/n6/mode/2up.</ref>"		[[Personal Religion]]

			<blockquote>In one sense at least the '''personal religion''' will prove itself more fundamental than either theology or ecclesiasticism. Churches, when once established, live at second hand upon tradition; but the founders of every church owed their power originally to the fact of their direct personal communion with the divine. Not only the superhuman founders, the Christ, the Buddha, Mahomet, but all the originators of Christian sects have been in this case; -- so personal religion should still seem the primordial thing, even to those who continue to esteem it incomplete....<ref>James, William. ''The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study of Human Nature''. New York: Penguin, 1982.https://archive.org/details/varietiesreligi03jamegoog/page/n6/mode/2up. p. 30 Emphasis added.</ref></blockquote>

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			"Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. We may go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply the requisite stimulus, and at a touch they are there in all their completeness, definite types of mentality which probably somewhere have their field of application and adaptation. No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded. How to regard them is the question — for they are so discontinuous with ordinary consciousness. Yet they may determine attitudes though they cannot furnish formulas, and open a region though they fail to give a map. At any rate, they forbid a premature closing of our accounts with reality. Looking back on my own experiences, they all converge towards a kind of insight to which I cannot help ascribing some metaphysical significance. The keynote of it is invariably a reconciliation. It is as if the opposites of the world, whose contradictoriness and conflict make all our difficulties and troubles, were melted into unity. Not only do they, as contrasted species, belong to one and the same genus, but one of the species, the nobler and better one, is itself the genus, and so soaf^s up and absorbs its opposite into itself. This is a dark saying, I know, when thus expressed in terms of common logic, but I cannot wholly escape from its authority. I feel as if it must mean something, something like what the hegelian philosophy means, if one could only lay hold of it more clearly. Those who have ears to hear, let them hear; to me the living sense of its reality only comes in the artificial mystic state of mind.

			I just now spoke of friends who believe in the anaesthetic revelation. For them too it is a monistic insight, in which the other in its various forms appears absorbed into the One. <ref>William James, ''The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study of Human Nature'' (New York: Penguin, 1903), 378-379, https://archive.org/details/32882009527345/page/n399/mode/2up?q=%22rational+consciousness%22.</ref>"</blockquote>

	~~Study the individual mystics, the founders.~~

	<blockquote>In one sense at least the personal religion will prove itself more fundamental than either theology or ecclesiasticism. Churches, when once established, live at second hand upon tradition; but the founders of every church owed their power originally to the fact of their direct personal communion with the divine. Not only the superhuman founders, the Christ, the Buddha, Mahomet, but all the originators of Christian sects have been in this case; -- so personal religion should still seem the primordial thing, even to those who continue to esteem it incomplete....<ref>James, William. ''The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study of Human Nature''. New York: Penguin, 1982. <nowiki>https://archive.org/details/varietiesreligi03jamegoog/page/n6/mode/2up</nowiki>. p. 30</ref></blockquote>

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	<blockquote class="definition">Psychologists who studied mystical experience. Wrote the influential book '''The Varieties of Religious Experience'''<ref>James, William. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study of Human Nature. New York: Penguin, 1982. https://archive.org/details/varietiesreligi03jamegoog/page/n6/mode/2up</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote class="definition">Psychologists who studied mystical experience. Wrote the influential book '''The Varieties of Religious Experience'''<ref>James, William. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study of Human Nature. New York: Penguin, 1982. https://archive.org/details/varietiesreligi03jamegoog/page/n6/mode/2up</ref></blockquote>

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	<blockquote>In one sense at least the personal religion will prove itself more fundamental than either theology or ecclesiasticism. Churches, when once established, live at second hand upon tradition; but the founders of every church owed their power originally to the fact of their direct personal communion with the divine. Not only the superhuman founders, the Christ, the Buddha, Mahomet, but all the originators of Christian sects have been in this case; -- so personal religion should still seem the primordial thing, even to those who continue to esteem it incomplete....<ref>James, William. ''The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study of Human Nature''. New York: Penguin, 1982. <nowiki>https://archive.org/details/varietiesreligi03jamegoog/page/n6/mode/2up</nowiki>. p. 30</ref></blockquote>{{Endstuff}}		<blockquote>In one sense at least the personal religion will prove itself more fundamental than either theology or ecclesiasticism. Churches, when once established, live at second hand upon tradition; but the founders of every church owed their power originally to the fact of their direct personal communion with the divine. Not only the superhuman founders, the Christ, the Buddha, Mahomet, but all the originators of Christian sects have been in this case; -- so personal religion should still seem the primordial thing, even to those who continue to esteem it incomplete....<ref>James, William. ''The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study of Human Nature''. New York: Penguin, 1982. <nowiki>https://archive.org/details/varietiesreligi03jamegoog/page/n6/mode/2up</nowiki>. p. 30</ref></blockquote>

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	<blockquote class="definition">Psychologists who studied mystical experience. Wrote the influential book '''The Varieties of Religious Experience'''<ref>James, William. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study of Human Nature. New York: Penguin, 1982. https://archive.org/details/varietiesreligi03jamegoog/page/n6/mode/2up</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote class="definition">Psychologists who studied mystical experience. Wrote the influential book '''The Varieties of Religious Experience'''<ref>James, William. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study of Human Nature. New York: Penguin, 1982. https://archive.org/details/varietiesreligi03jamegoog/page/n6/mode/2up</ref></blockquote>

	==Definition of Religion==
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			===Definition of Religion===

	<blockquote>...the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine. (James, p. 31)</blockquote><blockquote>"Were one asked to characterize the life of religion in the broadest and most general terms possible, one might say that it consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto."<ref>James, William. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature (p. 53). Kindle Edition.</ref></blockquote><blockquote>...the FOUNDERS of every church owed their power originally to the fact of their direct personal communion with the divine. Not only the superhuman founders, the Christ, the Buddha, Mahomet, but all the originators of Christian sects have been in this case;—so personal religion should still seem the primordial thing, even to those who continue to esteem it incomplete (James 1903, 30).</blockquote>		<blockquote>...the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine. (James, p. 31)</blockquote><blockquote>"Were one asked to characterize the life of religion in the broadest and most general terms possible, one might say that it consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto."<ref>James, William. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature (p. 53). Kindle Edition.</ref></blockquote><blockquote>...the FOUNDERS of every church owed their power originally to the fact of their direct personal communion with the divine. Not only the superhuman founders, the Christ, the Buddha, Mahomet, but all the originators of Christian sects have been in this case;—so personal religion should still seem the primordial thing, even to those who continue to esteem it incomplete (James 1903, 30).</blockquote>

			"Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. We may go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply the requisite stimulus, and at a touch they are there in all their completeness, definite types of mentality which probably somewhere have their field of application and adaptation...<ref>William James, ''The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study of Human Nature'' (New York: Penguin, 1903), 292–93, https://archive.org/details/varietiesreligi03jamegoog/page/n6/mode/2up.</ref>"


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	<blockquote>In one sense at least the personal religion will prove itself more fundamental than either theology or ecclesiasticism. Churches, when once established, live at second hand upon tradition; but the founders of every church owed their power originally to the fact of their direct personal communion with the divine. Not only the superhuman founders, the Christ, the Buddha, Mahomet, but all the originators of Christian sects have been in this case; -- so personal religion should still seem the primordial thing, even to those who continue to esteem it incomplete....<ref>James, William. ''The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study of Human Nature''. New York: Penguin, 1982. <nowiki>https://archive.org/details/varietiesreligi03jamegoog/page/n6/mode/2up</nowiki>. p. 30</ref></blockquote>{{Endstuff}}		<blockquote>In one sense at least the personal religion will prove itself more fundamental than either theology or ecclesiasticism. Churches, when once established, live at second hand upon tradition; but the founders of every church owed their power originally to the fact of their direct personal communion with the divine. Not only the superhuman founders, the Christ, the Buddha, Mahomet, but all the originators of Christian sects have been in this case; -- so personal religion should still seem the primordial thing, even to those who continue to esteem it incomplete....<ref>James, William. ''The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study of Human Nature''. New York: Penguin, 1982. <nowiki>https://archive.org/details/varietiesreligi03jamegoog/page/n6/mode/2up</nowiki>. p. 30</ref></blockquote>{{Endstuff}}
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	<blockquote>...the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine. (James, p. 31)</blockquote>		<blockquote>...the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine. (James, p. 31)</blockquote><blockquote>"Were one asked to characterize the life of religion in the broadest and most general terms possible, one might say that it consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto."<ref>James, William. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature (p. 53). Kindle Edition.</ref></blockquote><blockquote>...the FOUNDERS of every church owed their power originally to the fact of their direct personal communion with the divine. Not only the superhuman founders, the Christ, the Buddha, Mahomet, but all the originators of Christian sects have been in this case;—so personal religion should still seem the primordial thing, even to those who continue to esteem it incomplete (James 1903, 30).</blockquote>

	"Were one asked to characterize the life of religion in the broadest and most general terms possible, one might say that it consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto."<ref>James, William. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature (p. 53). Kindle Edition.</ref>


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	<blockquote>In one sense at least the personal religion will prove itself more fundamental than either theology or ecclesiasticism. Churches, when once established, live at second hand upon tradition; but the founders of every church owed their power originally to the fact of their direct personal communion with the divine. Not only the superhuman founders, the Christ, the Buddha, Mahomet, but all the originators of Christian sects have been in this case; -- so personal religion should still seem the primordial thing, even to those who continue to esteem it incomplete....(James, : ~~p31)~~</blockquote>		<blockquote>In one sense at least the personal religion will prove itself more fundamental than either theology or ecclesiasticism. Churches, when once established, live at second hand upon tradition; but the founders of every church owed their power originally to the fact of their direct personal communion with the divine. Not only the superhuman founders, the Christ, the Buddha, Mahomet, but all the originators of Christian sects have been in this case; -- so personal religion should still seem the primordial thing, even to those who continue to esteem it incomplete....<ref>James, William. ''The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study of Human Nature''. New York: Penguin, 1982. <nowiki>https://archive.org/details/varietiesreligi03jamegoog/page/n6/mode/2up</nowiki>. p. 30</ref></blockquote>{{Endstuff}}


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	~~==Types~~ of ~~Religion==~~		"Were one asked to characterize the life of religion in the broadest and most general terms possible, one might say that it consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto."<ref>James, William. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature (p. 53). Kindle Edition.</ref>

	~~===The Religion of Healthy-Mindedness~~

			=Methods==

			Study the individual mystics, the founders.

	~~==Methods==~~		<blockquote>In one sense at least the personal religion will prove itself more fundamental than either theology or ecclesiasticism. Churches, when once established, live at second hand upon tradition; but the founders of every church owed their power originally to the fact of their direct personal communion with the divine. Not only the superhuman founders, the Christ, the Buddha, Mahomet, but all the originators of Christian sects have been in this case; -- so personal religion should still seem the primordial thing, even to those who continue to esteem it incomplete....(James, : p31)</blockquote>

	~~Study the individual mystics, the founders.~~

	<blockquote>In one sense at least the personal religion will prove itself more fundamental than either theology or ecclesiasticism. Churches, when once established, live at second hand upon tradition; but the founders of every church owed their power originally to the fact of their direct personal communion with the divine. Not only the superhuman founders, the Christ, the Buddha, Mahomet, but all the originators of Christian sects have been in this case; -- so personal religion should still seem the primordial thing, even to those who continue to esteem it incomplete....(James, : ~~p31)</blockquote>~~		[[category:terms]][[category:lightningpath]]