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   The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (Penguin American Library)

   William James

   “Our normal waking consciousness… 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… No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded.”

   William James on the 4 qualities of transcendent consciousness:

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