 That the visible world is part of a more spiritual universe from which it draws its chief significance; 2. That union or harmonious relation with that higher universe is our true end; 3. That prayer or inner communion with the spirit thereof — be that...  The Monist - Page 1471903Full view - About this book
 | Alondra Yvette Oubré - 1997 - 326 pages
...Oubre Belmont, California January 1996 THE DAWN OF CONSCIOUSNESS, CULTURE, AND THE NUMINOUS MIND ... the visible world is part of a more spiritual universe from which it draws its chief significance.... That union or harmonious relation with that higher universe is our true en4... William James Anthtopologists,... | |
 | Sandra B. Rosenthal, Carl R. Hausman, Douglas R. Anderson - 1999 - 284 pages
...in these experiences, which he describes lavishly in the earlier chapters. These are the beliefs 1. That the visible world is part of a more spiritual...3. That prayer or inner communion with the spirit thereof—be that spirit "God" or "law"—is a process wherein work is really done, and spiritual energy... | |
 | Richard M. Gale - 1999 - 388 pages
...extensive and inclusive world salvifically flows into the subject. In general, the religious life shows "That the visible world is part of a more spiritual...universe from which it draws its chief significance" (VRE 382). It supports Fechner's theory of successively larger enveloping spheres of conscious life.... | |
 | Mark W. Janis, Carolyn Maree Evans - 1999 - 544 pages
...psychologist William James summarized the characteristics of the religious life to include: [a belief] that the visible world is part of a more spiritual...universe from which it draws its chief significance . . . [a belief] that prayer or inner communion with the spirit [of the 'higher universe'] is a process... | |
 | David C. Lamberth - 1999 - 274 pages
...connects James with the panpsychist project is his generalization that religion involves the belief that "union or harmonious relation with that higher universe is our true end."127 One interesting feature of this claim is that James's panpsychism, like his pragmatic understanding... | |
 | Kathleen E. Smith, David Ray Griffin - 2001 - 444 pages
...in a summary of three basic beliefs involved in the religious life suggested by William James: 1 . That the visible world is part of a more spiritual..."law" — is a process wherein work is really done, and spiritual energy flows in and produces effects . . . within the phenomenal world. (1902, 485) By... | |
 | Robert C. Fuller - 2001 - 238 pages
...indeed able to piece together an outlook predicated on the specifically spiritual understanding ( 1 ) that the visible world is part of a more spiritual...universe from which it draws its chief significance and (2) that union or harmonious relation with this "more" is our true end. I The Celestine Prophecy.... | |
 | Paul Bishop - 2002 - 248 pages
...religious person's experience in the final chapter of his work were the propositions that 'the visihle world is part of a more spiritual universe from which it draws its chief significance', that 'union or harmonious relation with that higher universe is our true end', and that 'spiritual... | |
 | Steven Chase - 2002 - 404 pages
...terminate, they consummate hut they do not conclude. 71 CONCLUSION: WHY ANGELS Now? The visible world is a part of a more spiritual universe from which it draws its chief significance. — U'illiam James, The Varieties of Religious Experience The angels, as Karl Barth has said, are heaven... | |
 | Sydney E. Ahlstrom - 2003 - 636 pages
...characteristics of the religious life, as we have found them, it includes the following beliefs: — 1. That the visible world is part of a more spiritual...'law' — is a process wherein work is really done, and spiritual energy flows in and produces effects, psychological or material, within the phenomenal... | |
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