The Transpersonal William James

Mark B. RyanC. J. Jung Educational Center of Houston

Wisdom School of Graduate StudiesOctober 10, 2013

William James

by Ellen

Emmet Rand 1910

Thayer Expediton to Brazil

1865

William James1869

“I and Sorrow”

William Jamesca. 1860-1869

William James ca.

1895

“The further limits of our being plunge…into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely ‘understandable’ world.”

The Birth of Transpersonal Psychology

Abraham Maslow

Stanislav Grof

Transpersonal Directions

Psychic Research

Critique of Science

Concepts of Consciousness

Validation of Spiritual

William James and Theodore Flournoy, 1905

Psychic Research and the Paranormal

“A comparative study of trances and subconscious states is of the utmost urgent importance for the comprehension of our nature.”

A Séance with Mrs. Walden

“My own white crow is Mrs. Piper.”

Leonora Piper

A Critique of Science

“…Science has come to be identified with a certain fixed general belief…that the deeper order of Nature is mechanical exclusively, and that non-mechanical categories are irrational ways of conceiving and explaining even such a thing as human life.”

At Keene Valley, NY, 1890s

Dimensions of Consciousness

“Our normal, wakingconsciousness, rational consciousness, as we call it, 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.”

Frederic W. H. Myers

Benjamin Paul Blood

“Just so there is a continuum of cosmic consciousness…into which our several minds plunge as into a mother sea or reservoir.”

Gustav Fechner

Our Deepest Destiny

“…I myself invincibly do believe…the life of [religion] as a whole is mankind’s most important function.”