The Varieties of Religious Experience

William James

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9780486117409
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophy of Religion

First-rate study of spirituality documents and discusses a variety of religious states of consciousness, covering the meaning of the term `divine,` reality of the unseen, religion of healthy-mindedness, sick soul, divided self and process of its unification, conversion, saintliness, and mysticism. Studded with richly concrete examples; a classic of its genre.

INDEX

Absolute, oneness with the.

Abstractness of religious objects.

ACHILLES.

ACKERMANN, MADAME.

Adaptation to environment, of things; of saints.

Æsthetic elements in religions.

Alacoque.

Alcohol.

AL-GHAZZALI.

ALI.

ALLEINE.

ALLINE.

Alternations of personality.

ALVAREZ DE PAZ.

AMIEL.

Anæsthesia.

Anæsthetic revelation.

ANGELUS SILESIUS.

Anger.

‘Anhedonia,’

Aristocratic type.

ARISTOTLE.

Ars, le Curé d’.

Asceticism.

Aseity, God’s.

Atman.

Attributes of God; their æsthetic use.

AUGUSTINE, SAINT.

AURELIUS, see MARCUS.

Automatic writing.

Automatisms.

BALDWIN.

BASHKIRTSEFF.

BEECHES.

BEHMEN, see BOEHME.

Belief, due to non-rationalistic impulses.

BESANT, MRS..

Bhagavad-Gita.

BLAVATSKY, MADAM.

BLOOD.

BLUMHARDT.

BOEHME.

BOOTH.

BOUGAUD.

BOURGET.

BOURIGNON.

BOWNE.

BRAINERD.

BRAY.

BROOKS.

BROWNELL.

BUCKE.

Buddhism.

Buddhist mysticism.

BULLEN.

BUNYAN.

BUTTERWORTH.

CAIRD, EDWARD.

CAIRD, J., on feeling in religion; on absolute self; he does not prove, but reaffirms, religion’s dicta.

CALL.

CARLYLE.

CARPENTER.

Catharine, Saint, of Genoa.

Catholicism and Protestantism compared.

Causality of God.

Cause.

CENNICK.

Centres of personal energy.

Cerebration, unconscious.

Chance.

CHANNING.

CHAPMAN.

Character, cause of its alterations; scheme of its differences of type.

Causes of its diversity; balance of.

Charity.

Chastity.

Chiefs of tribes.

Christian Science.

Christ’s atonement.

Churches.

CLARK.

CLISSOLD.

COE.

Conduct, perfect.

Confession.

Consciousness, fields of; subliminal.

Consistency.

Conversion, to avarice.

Conversion, Fletcher‘s; Tolstoy’s; Bunyan’s; in general, Lectures IX and X, passim; Bradley’s; compared with natural moral growth; Hadley‘s; two types offf. ; Brainerd’s; Alline‘s; Oxford graduate’s; Ratisbonne‘s; instantaneous; is it a natural phenomenon ? 230; subliminal action involved, in sudden cases; fruits of; its momentousness; may be supernatural; its concomitants: sense of higher control, happiness, automatisms, luminous phenomena; its degree of permanence.

Cosmic consciousness.

Counter-conversion.

Courage.

Crankiness, see Psychopathy.

CRICHTON-BROWNE.

Criminal character.

Criteria of value of spiritual affections.

CRUMP.

Cure of bad habits.

DAUDET.

Death.

DERHAM.

Design, argument fromff.

Devoutness.

DIONYSIUS AREOPAGITICUS.

Disease.

Disorder in contents of world.

Divided Self, Lecture VIII, passim; Cases of: Saint Augustine, H. Alline.

Divine, the.

Dog.

Dogmatism.

DOWIE.

DRESSER, H. W..

Drink.

Drummer.

DRUMMOND.

Drunkenness.

‘Dryness,’

DUMAS.

Dyes, on clothing.

Earnestness.

Ecclesiastical spirit, the.

ECKHART.

EDDY.

EDWARDS, JONATHAN

EDWARDS, MRS. J..

Effects of religious states.

Effeminacy.

Ego of Apperception.

ELLIS, Havelock.

ELWOOD.

EMERSON.

Emotion, as alterer of life’s value; of the characterff..

Empirical methodff..

Enemies, love your.

Energy, personal; mystical states increase it.

Environment.

Epictetus.

Epicureans.

Equanimity.

Ether, mystical effects of.

Evil, ignored by healthy-mindedness; due to things or to the Self; its reality.

Evolutionist optimism.

Excesses of piety.

Excitement, its effects.

Experience, religious, the essence of.

Extravagances of piety.

Extreme cases, why we take them.

Failure.

Faith.

Faith-state.

Fanaticismff.

Fear.

Feeling deeper than intellect in religion.

FIELDING.

FINNEY.

FLETCHER.

FLOURNOY.

Flower.

FOSTER.

Fox, GEORGE.

FRANCIS, SAINT, D‘ASSISI.

FRANCIS, SAINT, DE SALES.

FRASER.

Fruits, of conversion; of religion; of Saintliness.

FULLER.

GAMOND.

GARDINER.

Genius and insanity.

Geniuses, see Religious leaders.

Gentleman, character of the.

GERTRUDE, SAINT.

‘Gifts,’

Glory of God.

GOD; sense of his presence ff. ; historic changes in idea of himff.; mind-curer’s idea of him; his honor; described by negatives; his attributes, scholastic proof of; the metaphysical ones are for us meaningless; the moral ones are ill-deduced; he is not a mere inference; is used, not known; his existence must make a difference among phenomena; his relation to the subconscious region; his tasks; may be finite and plural.

GODDARD.

GOERRES.

GOETHE.

GOUGH.

GOURDON.

‘Grace,’ the operation of; the state of.

GRATRY.

Greeks, their pessimism.

Guidance.

GQRNEY.

GUYON.

HADLEY.

HALE.

HAMON.

Happiness.

HARNACK.

Healthy-mindedness, Lectures IV and V, passim; its philosophy of evil; compared with morbid-mindedness.

Heart, softening of.

HEGEL.

HELMONT, VAN.

Heroism, note.

Heterogeneous personality.

Higher criticism.

HILTY.

HODGSON, R..

HOMER.

HUGO.

Hypocrisy.

Hypothesis, what make a useful one.

HYSLOP.

IGNATIUS LOYOLA.

Illness.

‘Imitation of Christ,’ the.

Immortality.

Impulses.

Individuality.

Inhibitionsff.

Insane melancholy and religion.

Insanity and genius; and happiness.

Institutional religion.

Intellect a secondary force in religion.

Intellectual weakness of some saints.

Intolerance.

Irascibility.

JESUS, HARNACK on.

JOB.

JOHN, SAINT, OF THE CROSS.

JOHNSTON.

JONQUIL.

JORDAN.

JOUFFROY.

Judgments, existential and spiritual.

KANT.

Karma.

KELLNER.

Kindliness, see Charity.

KINGSLEY.

LAGNEAU.

Leaders, see Religious leaders.

Leaders, of tribes.

LEJEUNE.

LESSING.

LEUBA.

Life, its significance.

Life, the subconscious.

LOCKER-LAMPSON.

Logic, Hegelian.

Louis, Saint, of Gonzaga.

Love, see Charity.

Love, cases of falling out of.

Love of God.

Love your enemies.

LOWELL.

Loyalty, to God.

LUTFULLAH.

LUTHER

Lutheran self-despair.

Luxury.

LYCAON.

Lyre.

Mahomet. See MOHAMMED.

MARCUS AURELIUS.

MARGARET MARY, see ALACOQUE.

Margin of consciousness.

MARSHALL.

MARTINEAU.

MATHER.

MAUDSLEY.

Meaning of life.

Medical criticism of religion.

Medical materialismff.

Melancholy; Lectures V and VI, passim; cases of.

Melting moods.

Method of judging value of religion.

Methodism.

MEYSENBUG.

Militarism.

Military type of character.

MILL.

Mind-cure,its sources and history; its opinion of fear; cases of; its message; its methods; it uses verification; its philosophy of evil.

Miraculous character of conversion.

MOEAMMED.

MOLINOS.

MOLTKE, VON.

Monasteries.

Monism.

Morbidness compared with healthy-mindedness. See, also, Melancholy.

Mormon revelations.

Mortification, see Asceticism.

MUIR.

MULFORD.

MÜLLER.

MURISIER.

MYERS.

Mystic states, their effects.

Mystical experiences.

Mysticism, Lectures XVI and XVII, passim ; its marks; its theoretic results; it cannot warrant truth; its results; its relation to the sense of union.

Mystical region of experience.

Natural theology.

Naturalism.

Nature, scientific view of.

Negative accounts of deity.

NELSON.

NETTLETON.

NEWMAN, F. W..

NEWMAN, J. H., on dogmatic theology; his type of imagination.

NIETZBCHE.

Nitrous oxide, its mystical effects.

No-function.

Non-resistance.

Obedience.

OBERMANN.

O‘CONNELL.

Omit.

‘ Once-born’ type.

Oneness with God, see Union.

Optimism, systematic; and evolu, tionism; it may be shallow.

Orderliness of world.

Organism determines all mental states whatsoever.

Origin of mental states no criterion of their valueff.

Orison.

Over-beliefs; the author‘s.

Over-soul.

Oxford, graduate of.

Pagan feeling.

Pantheism.

PARKER.

PASCAL.

PATON.

PAUL, SAINT.

PEEK.

PEIRCE.

Penny.

PERREYVE.

Persecutions.

Personality, explained away by science; heterogeneous; alterations offf. ; is reality. See Character.

PETER, SAINT, OF ALCANTARA.

PHILO.

Philosophy, Lecture XVIII, passim; must coerce assent; scholastic; idealistic; unable to give a theoretic warrant to faith; its true office in religion.

Photisms.

Pietyff.

Pluralism.

Polytheism.

Poverty.

‘Pragmatism,’

Prayer; its definition; its essence; petitional; its effects.

‘ Presence,’ sense of.

Presence of Godff..

Presence of God, the practice of.

Primitive human thought.

PRINGLE-PATTISON.

Prophets, the Hebrew.

Protestant theology.

Protestantism and Catholicism.

Providential leading.

Psychopathy and religionff.

PUFFEN.

Purity.

Quakers.

RAMAKRISHNA.

Rationalism; its authority overthrown by mysticism.

RATISBONNE.

Reality of unseen objects, Lecture III, passim.

RÉCÉJAC.

‘Recollection,’

Redemption.

Reformation of character.

Regeneration, see Conversion ; by relaxation.

REIO.

Relaxation, salvation by. See Surrender.

Religion, to be tested by fruits, not by originff.; its definition; is solemn; compared with Stoicism; its unique function; abstractness of its objects; differs according to temperament, and ought to differ; considered to be a ‘survival,’ 118, 490, 498; its relations to melancholy; worldly passions may combine with it; its essential characters; its relation to prayer; asserts a fact, not a theory; its truth; more than science, it holds by concrete reality; attempts to evaporate it into philosophy; it is concerned with personal destinies; with feeling and conduct; is a sthenic affection; is for life, not for knowledge; its essential contents; it postulates issues of fact.

Religious emotion.

Religious leaders, often nervously unstable ff.; their loneliness.

‘Religious sentiment,’

RENAN.

Renunciations.

Repentance.

Resignation.

Revelation, the anæsthetic.

Revelations, see Automatisms.

Revelations, in Mormon Church.

Revivalism.

RIBET.

RIBOT.

RODRIGUEZ.

ROYCE.

RUTHERFORD, MARK.

SABATIER, A..

Sacrifice.

SAINT-PIERRE.

SAINTE-BECVE.

Saintliness, Sainte-Beuve on; its characteristics; criticism of ff.

Saintly conduct.

Saints, dislike of natural man for.

Salvation.

SANDAYS.

SATAN, in picture.

SCHEFFLER.

Scholastic arguments for God.

Science, ignores personality and teleology; her facts,‘

‘Science of Religions,’

Scientific conceptions, their late adoption.

Second-birth.

SEELEY.

Self of the world.

Self-despair.

Self-surrender.

SÉNANCOUR.

SETH.

Sexual temptation.

Sexuality as cause of religion.

‘Shrew,’

Sickness.

Sick souls, Lectures V and VI, passim.

SIGHELF.

Sin.

Sinners, Christ died for.

Skepticismff.

SKOBELEFF.

SMITH, JOSEPH.

Softening of the heart.

Solemnity.

Soul.

Soul, strength of.

SPENCER.

SPINOZA.

Spiritism.

Spirit-return.

Spiritual judgments.

Spiritual states, tests of their value.

STABBUCK.

STEVENSON.

Stoicism.

Strange appearance of world.

Strength of soul

Subconscious action in conversion.

Subconscious life.

Subconscious Self, as intermediary between the Self and God.

Subliminal, see Subconscious.

Sufis.

Suggestion.

Suicide.

Supernaturalism its two kinds; criticism of universalistic.

Supernatural worl...

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Dedication
• Bibliographical Note
• Copyright Page
• PREFACE
• Table of Contents
• LECTURE I - RELIGION AND NEUROLOGY
• LECTURE II - CIRCUMSCRIPTION OF THE TOPIC
• LECTURE III - THE REALITY OF THE UNSEEN
• LECTURES IV AND V - THE RELIGION OF HEALTHY-MINDEDNESS
• LECTURES VI AND VII - THE SICK SOUL
• LECTURE VIII - THE DIVIDED SELF, AND THE PROCESS OF ITS UNIFICATION
• LECTURE IX - CONVERSION
• LECTURE X - CONVERSION — Concluded
• LECTURES XI, XII, AND XIII - SAINTLINESS
• LECTURES XIV AND XV - THE VALUE OF SAINTLINESS
• LECTURES XVI AND XVII - MYSTICISM
• LECTURE XVIII - PHILOSOPHY
• LECTURE XIX - OTHER CHARACTERISTICS
• LECTURE XX - CONCLUSIONS
• POSTSCRIPT
• INDEX