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The Transpersonal William James. Mark B. Ryan C. J. Jung Educational Center of Houston Wisdom School of Graduate Studies October 10, 2013. William James b y Ellen Emmet Rand 1910. Thayer Expediton to Brazil 1865. William James 1869. “I and Sorrow” William James - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
The Transpersonal William James
Mark B. RyanC. J. Jung Educational Center of Houston
Wisdom School of Graduate StudiesOctober 10, 2013
William James
by Ellen
Emmet Rand 1910
Thayer Expediton to Brazil
1865
William James1869
“I and Sorrow”
William Jamesca. 1860-1869
William James ca.
1895
“The further limits of our being plunge…into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely ‘understandable’ world.”
The Birth of Transpersonal Psychology
Abraham Maslow
Stanislav Grof
Transpersonal Directions
Psychic Research
Critique of Science
Concepts of Consciousness
Validation of Spiritual
William James and Theodore Flournoy, 1905
Psychic Research and the Paranormal
“A comparative study of trances and subconscious states is of the utmost urgent importance for the comprehension of our nature.”
A Séance with Mrs. Walden
“My own white crow is Mrs. Piper.”
Leonora Piper
A Critique of Science
“…Science has come to be identified with a certain fixed general belief…that the deeper order of Nature is mechanical exclusively, and that non-mechanical categories are irrational ways of conceiving and explaining even such a thing as human life.”
At Keene Valley, NY, 1890s
Dimensions of Consciousness
“Our normal, wakingconsciousness, 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.”
Frederic W. H. Myers
Benjamin Paul Blood
“Just so there is a continuum of cosmic consciousness…into which our several minds plunge as into a mother sea or reservoir.”
Gustav Fechner
Our Deepest Destiny
“…I myself invincibly do believe…the life of [religion] as a whole is mankind’s most important function.”