 | Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz - Fiction - 1911 - 570 pages
...spots, and fitful influences from beyond break in, showing the otherwise unverifiable common connexion. Not only psychic research, but metaphysical philosophy...speculative biology are led in their own ways to look with favour on some such " panpsychic " view of the universe as this.' (W. James, The Confidences of a Psychical... | |
 | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan - Philosophy and religion - 1920 - 484 pages
...and fitful influences from beyond break in, showing the otherwise unverifiable common connections. Not only psychic research, but metaphysical philosophy...speculative biology are led in their own ways to look with favour on some such pan-psychic view of the universe as this " (The American Magazine, 19o8). If the... | |
 | Ben-Ami Scharfstein Professor of Philosophy Tel-Aviv University - Philosophy - 1980 - 502 pages
...connection. Not only psychic research, but metaphysical philosophy, and speculative biology are !ed in their own ways to look with favor on some such 'panpsychic' view of the universe as this.50 Seen coldly, James's personal qualities and philosophical beliefs could be judged to be persistent... | |
 | Susan Gillman - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 228 pages
...Clemens and Mark Twain, p. 343. 8. "Not only psychic research," James concludes in "The Last Report," "but metaphysical philosophy and speculative biology...some such 'panpsychic' view of the universe as this" (The American Magazine [October 1909]; rpt. Wf on PR, 324). 9. Paul Baender, ed., What is Mani and... | |
 | Ruth Anna Putnam - Philosophy - 1997 - 430 pages
...spots, and fitful influences from beyond leak in, showing the otherwise unverifiable common connexion. Not only psychic research, but metaphysical philosophy...some such 'panpsychic' view of the universe as this. (EPR, 374) The 1902 Varieties also appeals to this theory to explain what is revealed by mystical and... | |
 | Richard M. Gale - Philosophy - 1999 - 388 pages
...accidental fences, and into which our several minds plunge as into a mother-sea or reservoir. . . . Not only psychic research, but metaphysical philosophy...some such 'panpsychic' view of the universe as this" (EPR 374). In certain exceptional states the ordinary threshold of consciousness is lowered so that... | |
 | David C. Lamberth - Religion - 1999 - 274 pages
...influences from beyond leak in, showing the otherwise unverifiable common connexion. Not only psychical research, but metaphysical philosophy and speculative...on some such "panpsychic" view of the universe as this.'65 Although James's conclusions here could be read as being based on no facts whatsoever, his... | |
 | Susan Gillman - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 258 pages
...accidental fences, and into which our several minds plunge as into a mothersea or reservoir. . . . Not only psychic research, but metaphysical philosophy...some such 'panpsychic' view of the universe as this." 70 It is not going too far, perhaps, to say that Hopkins was led through the sciences of the occult... | |
 | Susan Gillman - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 280 pages
...accidental fences, and into which our several minds plunge as into a mothersea or reservoir. . . . Not only psychic research, but metaphysical philosophy...on some such 'panpsychic' view of the universe as this."7" It is not going too far, perhaps, to say that Hopkins was led through the sciences of the... | |
 | Joan Delaney Grossman, Ruth Rischin - History - 2003 - 276 pages
...demanded to be taken as far as they might go. He had a strong suspicion that they led through panpsychism: Not only psychic research, but metaphysical philosophy...favor on some such "panpsychic" view of the universe .... Assuming this common reservoir of consciousness to exist, . . the question is, What is its own... | |
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normal" consciousness is circumscribed for adaptation to our external earthly environment, but the fence is weak in spots, and fitful influences from beyond leak in, showing the otherwise unverifiable common connection. Not only psychic research, but... 
