William James and the Sick Soul
As part of Harvard Divinity School's annual William James Lectures on Religious Experience, Professor John Kaag presented "William James and the Sick Soul." This lecture discussed William James's 1895 lecture entitled "Is Life Worth Living?" It was no theoretical question for James, who had contemplated suicide during an existential crisis as a young man a quarter-century earlier. This lecture showed why the founder of pragmatism and empirical psychology can still speak so directly and profoundly to anyone struggling to make a life worth living.
This event took place on February 2, 2023
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❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ It would be a pleasure to sit in this room at Harvard Divinity School and listen to this distinguished speaker until the silence of the stars outside became inviting. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I don't want to be over-dramatic but this changed my life.
Fantastic lecture.
Excellent lecture. Realistic approach to suicide and meaning in life. 🙌🏽 also great Q and A
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Not trying to be rude, but I think the discussion around the main point was really a lot more shallow than I tought going into this.
What about the elderly who watch themselves dissolve .....both physically and mentally
@joshuakohn4408
Жыл бұрын
My hypothesis is they are still there but the part that connects your spirit to your body is fading that doesn't mean your spirit is but it LOOKS like it is
Re the question after the lecture -- does James have a therapeutic pratice? Bill Wilson, the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, was a fan of the Variety. Bill Wilson was also influenced by C.G. Jung. Thank you.
Soul is the intersection between me and my God. Sick soul is that part of soul soiled or contaminated by the human side of me. Like a computer that is reformatted to it's well functioning form, a sick soul can be reformatted by coping the God side of the soul and paste it on the sick side and thus replace the stickiness and hence regain your former happy self...
This sounds like something between a cult speech and a personal therapy session for the speaker.
@tomisaacson2762
5 ай бұрын
So it was earnest and passionate. Agreed.
@arkrou
5 ай бұрын
@@tomisaacson2762 And you sound like his acolyte