The Unseen World
The Unseen World
Chapter seven concentrates on James's theory of immortality, focusing on his explanation of the supposed communications from the dead. It establishes that his study of trance states in Spiritualist mediums led him to formulate the sublime cosmic reservoir theory, or the view that upon bodily death consciousness melds organically with all previous consciousness and is stored over time in the cosmos, which James called the “mother sea of consciousness.”
Keywords: William James, Immortality, Sublime conscious reservoir, Trance States, Mrs. Piper, Will, Consciousness, Pluralism, Gustav Fechner
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