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Western Esotericism: History & Scholarship

The Varieties of Religious Experience

by William James

William James's classic study of religious experience, based on his Gifford Lectures delivered in Edinburgh in 1901 and 1902. Using personal accounts, he examines conversion, saintliness, the healthy-minded and sick soul, and mysticism, proposing marks of mystical states such as ineffability and noetic quality. It is a foundational work in the psychology of religion and the study of mystical experience.

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