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James, William, 1842-1910

"Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature"

I will quote yet
another couple of shorter ones to give the matter a perfectly
concrete turn. Here is one:--
"One of my first experiences in applying my teaching was two
months after I first saw the healer. I fell, spraining my right
ankle, which I had done once four years before, having then had
to use a crutch and elastic anklet for some months, and carefully
guarding it ever since. As soon as I was on my feet I made the
positive suggestion (and felt it through all my being): 'There
is nothing but God, and all life comes from him perfectly. I
cannot be sprained or hurt, I will let him take care of it.'
Well, I never had a sensation in it, and I walked two miles that
day."
The next case not only illustrates experiment and verification,
but also the element of passivity and surrender of which awhile
ago I made such account.
"I went into town to do some shopping one morning, and I had not
been gone long before I began to feel ill. The ill feeling
increased rapidly, until I had pains in all my bones, nausea and
faintness, headache, all the symptoms in short that precede an
attack of influenza.


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