![]() The book is an incredibly dangerous approach to understanding a topic. This is clearly one of the worst books I’ve ever read and I can’t believe that I had such high esteem for the author before having read this. Testimonials belong inside a comic book and offer nothing but anecdotal curiosities for those who already believe without sufficient reason or for those who like to pretend to know things they don’t really know. He wasn't just describing the transcendental condition of mankind, he was establishing and building a framework for others to follow for over 100 years.įeeling, testimonials, pragmatism leads no where ![]() He wants to know and explain his hypothesis. A drive to discover how we work and what really makes us tick. ![]() And it isn't a clinical curiosity either (although his precision could be called clinical). I believe the magic of this book is James isn't selling a belief. He looks at it normatively and then he tries to look at each speck and piece through a value lens. He artfully and carefully presents a measured approach to religion. You have thousand of books written every year proclaiming their strain of Christianity, Judaism, Vegetarianism, Atheism, Mormonism, Buddhism, as being the only true and living way to view the divine AND the only mirror to view and judge ourselves. ![]() Most writers run at the subject with some large bias of the mystical, the. The amazing thing about James is he can write with precision and humility about something so completely intrinsic and fraught with pit falls. ![]()
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