{"collection":"etc","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/etc/vre/vre18.htm","path":"etc/vre/vre18.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/etc/vre/vre18.htm","text":"The Varieties of Religous Experience, by William James, [1902]\nAbsolute, oneness with the, 410\nAbstractness of religious objects, 53\nACHILLES, 85\nACKERMANN, MADAME, 63\nAdaptation to environment, of things, 428; of saints, 365-368\n\u00c6sthetic elements in religions, 450\nAlcohol, 377\nAL-GHAZZALI, 393\nALI, 334\nALLEINE, 224\nAlternations of personality, 190-191\nALVAREZ DE PAZ, 114\nAMIEL, 386\nAn\u00e6sthesia, 283\nAn\u00e6sthetic revelation, 377-383\nANGELUS SILESIUS, 408\n\"Anhedonia,\" 143\nAristocratic type, 363\nARISTOTLE, 486\nArs, le Cur\u00e9 d\u2019, 296\nAsceticism, 268, 291-304, 352-357\nAtman, 392\nAttributes of God, 431; their \u00e6sthetic use, 448\nAUGUSTINE, SAINT, s68, 353, 486\nAURELIUS, See MARCUS\nAutomatisms, 229, 245, 467-473\nBASHKIRTSEFF, 82\nBEECHER, 251\nBEHMEN, See BOEHME\nBelief, due to non-rationalistic impulses, 72\nBhagavad-Gita, 353\nBLAVATSKY, MADAM, 412\nBLOOD, 380\nBLUMHARDT, 111\nBOOTH, 200\nBOUGAUD, 336\nBOURGET, 258\nBOURIGNON, 315\nBOWNE, 492\nBROWNELL, 505\nBUCKE, 389\nBuddhist mysticism, 392\nBULLEN, 282\nBUTTERWORTH, 402\nCAIRD, EDWARD, 104\nCAIRD, J., on feeling in religion, 424; on absolute self, 440; he does not prove, but reaffirms, religion's dicta, 443.\nCALL, 284\nCARPENTER, 313\nCatharine, Saint, of Genoa, 284\nCatholicism and Protestantism compared, 112, 329, 455\nCause, 492\nCENNICK, 296\nCentres of personal energy, 193, 261, 513\nCerebration, unconscious, 203\nChance, 516\nCHAPMAN, 318\nCharacter, cause of its alterations, 190; scheme of its differences of type, 194, 211; causes of its diversity, 256; balance of, 333\nChastity, 304\nChiefs of tribes, 363\nChristian Science, 105\nCLARK, 380\nCLISSOLD, 471\nCOE, 235\nConduct, perfect, 347\nConfession, 451\nConsciousness, fields of, 226; subliminal, 228\nConsistency, 290\nConversion, to avarice, 175\nConversion, Fletcher's, 178; Tolstoy's, 180; Bunyan's, 183; in general, Lectures IX and X, passim; Bradley's, 186; compared with natural moral growth, 196; Hadley's, 198; two types of, 202 ff.; Brainerd's, 209; Alline's, 213; Oxford graduate's, 216; Ratisbonne's, 219; instantaneous, 222; is it a natural phenomenon? 225; subliminal action involved, in sudden cases, 231, 235; fruits of, 232; its momentousness, 234; may be supernatural, 237; its concomitants: sense of higher control, 239, happiness, 243, automatisms, 245, luminous phenomena, 246; its degree of permanence, 251.\nCosmic consciousness, 389\nCounter-conversion, 173\nCrankiness, see Psychopathy\nCriminal character, 258\nCriteria of value of spiritual affections, 19\nCRUMP, 234\nCure of bad habits, 264\nDAUDET, 164\nDERHAM, 483\nDesign, argument from, 428, 482 ff.\nDevoutness, 333\nDIONYSIUS AREOPAGITICUS, 407\nDisorder in contents of world, 428\nDivided Self, Lecture VIII, passim; Cases of: Saint Augustine, 168, H. Alline, 170\nDivine, the, 32\nDog, 276\nDOWIE, 111\nDrink, 262\nDRUMMOND, 257\n\"Dryness,\" 201\nDUMAS, 274\nDyes, on clothing, 289\nEarnestness, 258\nEcclesiastical spirit, the, 328, 331\nECKHART, 408\nEDDY, 105\nEDWARDS, JONATHAN, 21, 112, 196, 224, 233, 234, 243, 323\nEffects of religious states, 22\nEffeminacy, 357\nEgo of Apperception, 439\nELWOOD, 287\nEMERSON, 32, 164, 202, 234, 324 Emotion, as alterer of life's value, 247; of the character, 192, 256 ff., 274\nEmpirical method, 19, 320 ff., 434\nEnergy, personal, 193; mystical states increase it, 405\nEpictetus, 464\nEpicureans, 140\nEquanimity, 279\nEther, mystical effects of, 382\nEvil, ignored by healthy-mindedness, 87, 104, 128; due to things or to the Self, 131; its reality, 160\nEvolutionist optimism, 90\nExcesses of piety, 333\nExcitement, its effects, 192, 261, 273, 319\nExperience, religious, the essence of, 498\nExtravagances of piety, 332, 476\nExtreme cases, why we take them, 476\nFailure, 135\nFaith-state, 495\nFanaticism, 331\nFeeling deeper than intellect in religion, 422\nFIELDING, 427\nFlower, 466\nFRANCIS, SAINT, D\u2019ASSISI, 313\nFRANCIS, SAINT, DE SALES, 12\nFRASER, 444\nFruits, of conversion, 232; of religion, 321; of Saintliness, 349\nFULLER, 41\nGAMOND, 283\nGARDINER, 263\nGenius and insanity, 18\nGeniuses, see Religious leaders.\nGentleman, character of the, 311, 363\nGERTRUDE, SAINT, 338\n\"Gifts,\" 148\nGlory of God, 335\nGod, 32; sense of his presence, 65-71, 266, 270 ff.; historic changes in idea of him, 73, 322 ff., 482; mind-curer's idea of him, too; his honor, 335; described by negatives, 408; his attributes, scholastic proof of, 430; the metaphysical ones are for us meaningless, 435; the moral ones are ill-deduced, 437; he is not a mere inference, 492; is used, not known, 497; his existence must make a difference among phenomena, 507, 512; his relation to the subconscious region, 237, 505; his tasks, 509; may be finite and plural, 515\nGODDARD, 95\nGOETHE, 134\nGOUGH, 200\nGOURDON, 168\n\"Grace,\" the operation of, 222; the state of, 255\nGreeks, their pessimism, 85, 139\nGuidance, 461\nGURNEY, 516\nHALE, 81\nHAMON, 358\nHappiness, 47-49, 78, 243, 274\nHARNACK, 98\nHealthy-mindedness, Lectures IV and V, passim; its philosophy of evil, 129; compared with morbid-mindedness, 159, 477\nHeart, softening of, 262\nHELMONT, VAN, 487\nHeterogeneous personality, 166, 190\nHigher criticism, 6\nHODGSON, R., 514\nHOMER, 85\nHUGO, 168\nHypocrisy, 331\nHypothesis, what makes a useful one, 508\nHYSLOP, 514\nIGNATIUS LOYOLA, 307, 397, 401\nIllness, 11\n\"Imitation of Christ,\" the, 44\nImmortality, 514\nImpulses, 256\nIndividuality, 492\nInhibitions, 256 ff\nInsane melancholy and religion, 142\nInsanity and genius 18; and happiness, 274\nInstitutional religion, 328\nIntellect a secondary force in religion, 422, 504\nIntellectual weakness of some saints, 362\nIntolerance, 335\nIrascibility, 258\nJESUS, HARNACK on, 98\nJOHN, SAINT, OF THE CROSS, 299, 398, 404\nJOHNSTON, 252\nJONQUIL, 466\nJORDAN, 339\nJudgments, existential and spiritual, 6\nKarma, 512\nKELLNER, 392\nKindliness, see Charity\nKINGSLEY, 375\nLAGNEAU, 280\nLeaders, see Religious leaders\nLeaders, of tribes, 363\nLESSING, 312\nLEUBA, 197, 200, 216, 241, 496, 506\nLife, its significance, 148\nLife, the subconscious, 203, 206\nLOCKER-LAMPSON, 39\nLogic, Hegelian, 439\nLouis, Saint, of Gonzaga, 343\nLove, see Charity\nLove, cases of falling out of, 176\nLove of God, 271\nLOWELL, 65\nLoyalty, to God, 335\nLUTFULLAH, 161\nLUTHER, 126, 135, 239, 324, 340, 373\nLutheran self-despair, 106, 207\nLuxury, 357\nLYCAON, 85\nLyre, 261\nMahomet, 168. See MOHAMMED\nMARGARET MARY, see ALACOQUE\nMargin of consciousness, 227\nMARSHALL, 493\nMARTINEAU, 464\nMATHER, 297\nMAUDSLEY, 20\nMeaning of life, 148\nMedical criticism of religion, 404\nMedical materialism, 11 ff.\nMelancholy, 142, 274; Lectures V and VI, passim; cases of, 145, 146, 154, 156, 194\nMelting moods, 262\nMethod of judging value of religion, 19, 221\nMEYSENBUG, 386\nMilitary type of character, 363\nMILL, 200\nMind-cure, its sources and history, 92-95; its opinion of fear, 96; cases of, 100-103, 118, 121; its message, 106; its methods, 110-121; it uses verification, 118-122; its philosophy of evil, 129\nMiraculous character of conversion, 222\nMOLINOS, 128\nMonasteries, 291\nMonism, 407\nMorbidness compared with healthy-mindedness, 477. See, also, Melancholy\nMormon revelations, 472\nMortification, see Asceticism\nMUIR, 471\nMULFORD, 488\nM\u00dcLLER, 457\nMURISIER, 341\nMYERS, 228, 229, 456, 501, 514\nMystic states, their effects, 22, 405\nMystical experiences, 66\nMysticism, Lectures XVI and XVII, passim; its marks, 371; its theoretic results, 407, 413, 419; it cannot warrant truth, 414; its results, 416; its relation to the sense of union, 499\nMystical region of experience, 505\nNatural theology, 482\nNature, scientific view of, 481\nNegative accounts of deity, 408\nNETTLETON, 211\nNEWMAN, F. W., 79\nNEWMAN, J. H., on dogmatic theology, 425, 433; his type of imagination, 448\nNitrous oxide, its mystical effects, 378\nNo-function, 256-257, 293, 378, 407\nObedience, 304\nOBERMANN, 466\nOmit, 290\n\"Once-born\" type, 79, 163, 355, 477\nOneness with God, see Union.\nOptimism, systematic, 86; and evolutionism, 90; it may be shallow, 356\nOrderliness of world, 428\nOrganism determines all mental states whatsoever, 15\nOrigin of mental states no criterion of their value, 16 ff.\nOrison, 397\nOver-beliefs, 503; the author's, 505\nOver-soul, 506\nPagan feeling, 85\nPASCAL, 281\nPATON, 351\nPEEK, 248\nPEIRCE, 435\nPenny, 317\nPERREYVE, 495\nPersonality, explained away by science, 117, 481; heterogeneous, 166; alterations of, 190, 206 ff.; is reality, 489. See Character\nPHILO, 470\nPhilosophy, Lecture XVIII, passim; must coerce assent, 424; scholastic, 430; idealistic, 438; unable to give a theoretic warrant to faith, 445; its true office in religion, 445\nPhotisms, 246\nPiety, 332 ff.\nPluralism, 129\n\"Pragmatism,\" 435, 509, 512-514\nPrayer, 451; its definition, 454; its essence, 454; petitional, 456; its effects, 464-467, 513\nPresence of God, 65-71, 267, 270 ff., 387, 409\nPresence of God, the practice of, 114\nPrimitive human thought, 485\nPRINGLE-PATTISON, 444\nProphets, the Hebrew, 469\nProtestant theology, 239\nProtestantism and Catholicism, 112, 223, 323, 450\nProvidential leading, 461\nPsychopathy and religion, 23 ff.\nPUFFER, 385\nRationalism, 72, 73; its authority overthrown by mysticism, 419\nReality of unseen objects, Lecture III, passim\nRedemption, 154\nReformation of character, 314\nRegeneration, see Conversion; by relaxation, 109\nREID, 436\nRelaxation, salvation by, 108. See Surrender\nReligion, to be tested by fruits, not by origin, 11 ff., 324; its definition, 27, 3r; is solemn, 38; compared with Stoicism, 42; its unique function, 51; abstractness of its objects, 54; differs according to temperament, 74, 132, 326, and ought to differ, 477; considered to be a \"survival,\" 116, 480, 488; its relations to melancholy, 142; worldly passions may combine with it, 330; its essential characters, 365, 475; its relation to prayer, 453-455; asserts a fact, not a theory, 479; its truth, 369; more than science, it holds by concrete reality, 490; attempts to\nevaporate it into philosophy, 492; it is concerned with personal destinies, 480, 493; with feeling and conduct, 494; is a sthenic affection, 495; is for life, not for knowledge, 496; its essential contents, 498; it postulates issues of fact, 508\nReligious emotion, 274\nReligious leaders, often nervously unstable, 8 ff., 31; their loneliness, 328\n\"Religious sentiment,\" 28\nRENAN, 37\nRenunciations, 342\nRepentance, 125\nResignation, 281\nRevelation, the an\u00e6sthetic, 377-384\nRevelations, see Automatisms.\nRevelations, in Mormon Church, 472\nRevivalism, 223\nRIBET, 397\nROYCE, 444\nRUTHERFORD, MARK, 75\nSABATIER, A., 454\nSAINT-PIERRE, 82\nSaintliness, Sainte-Beuve on, 255; its characteristics, 266, 361; criticism of, 320 ff.\nSaints, dislike of natural man for, 363\nSalvation, 515\nSANDAY, 470\nSATAN, in picture, 50\nScholastic arguments for God, 428\nScience, ignores personality and teleology, 481; her \"facts,\" 490, 491\n\"Science of Religions,\" 424, 445, 446, 478-481\nScientific conceptions, their late adoption, 486\nSEELEY, 76\nSelf of the world, 439\nS\u00c9NANCOUR, 466\nSETH, 444\nSexual temptation, 263\nSexuality as cause of religion, 12\n\"Shrew,\" 339\nSickness, 111\nSick souls, Lectures V and VI, passim\nSIGHELE, 258\nSin, 205\nSinners, Christ died for, 127\nSkepticism, 325 ff.\nSKOBELEFF, 260\nSMITH, JOSEPH, 471\nSoftening of the heart, 262\nSoul, 191\nSoul, strength of, 268\nSpiritism, 504\nSpirit-return, 514\nSpiritual judgments, 6\nSpiritual states, tests of their value, 19\nSTARBUCK, 195, 200, 202, 205-206, 244, 247, 253, 263, 316, 345, 385\nStrange appearance of world, 148\nStrength of soul, 268\nSubconscious action in conversion, 232, 237\nSubconscious life, 113, 203, 206, 228, 231, 265, 473\nSubconscious Self, as intermediary between the Self and God, 501\nSubliminal, see Subconscious\nSuicide, 144\nSupernaturalism its two kinds, 510; criticism of universalistic, 511\nSupernatural world, 508\nSurrender, salvation by, 108, 205, 208\nSurvival-theory of religion, 480, 488, 490\nSWINBURNE, 413\nSympathetic magic, 486\nSympathy, see Charity\nSystems, philosophic, 424\nTaine, 11\nTAYLOR, 241\nTenderness, see Charity\nTENNYSON, 374\nTERESA, SAINT, 22, 339, 352, 400, 402, 403, 405\nTheologia Germanica, 43\nTheologians, systematic, 437\n\"Theopathy,\" 336\nTHOREAU, 269\nThreshold, 132\nTOWIANSKI, 276\nTragedy of life, 355\nTranquillity, 279\nTranscendentalism criticised, 511\nTranscendentalists, 506\nTREVOR, 387\nTruth of religion, how to be tested, 368; what it is, 500; mystical perception of, 371, 401\n\"Twice-born,\" type, 163, 355, 477\nTYNDALL, 294\n\"Unconscious cerebration,\" 204\n\"UNION MORALE,\" 267\nUnion with God, 400, 409, 416, 441, 499 ff. See lectures on Conversion, passim\nUnity of universe, 129\nUnreality, sense of, 62\nUnseen realities, Lecture III, passim\nUpanishads, 410\nUPHAM, 284\nUtopias, 352\nVACHEROT, 492\nValue of spiritual affections, how tested, 19\nVAMB\u00c9RY, 334\nVIVEKANANDA, 504\nVOLTAIRE, 36\nVOYSEY, 270\nWealth-worship, 357\nWEAVER, 276\nWESLEY, 223\nWesleyan self-despair, 106, 207\nWHITE FIELD, 312\nWOLFF, 482\nWorld, soul of the, 439\nYes-function, 256-258, 293, 378\nYoga, 391\nYOUNG, 251","title":"The Varieties of Religous Experience: Index","type":"page"}