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[MarshaV]

Mark,

I'm not sure what you mean.  My point was the influence of Eastern 
thought.  James seems to have been open to new ideas and quite 
dynamic. 


Marsha 



On Dec 4, 2010, at 11:53 PM, 118 wrote:

> Hi Marsha,
> Yeah, James was pretty smart until he got into psychology.  Then he
> just became another hack.  What a waste.
> 
> Mark
> 
> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 7:21 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Buddhism planted the seeds in James:
>> 
>> James's biography clearly states he had read and reread
>> Upanishad and Buddhist texts, texts that belonged to his
>> father.  This would have been around 1870.
>> 
>> Here's a list of some of the books:
>> 
>>    Modern Buddhist - Alabaster
>>    Religion des Buddha (Vol.1) - Koeppen
>>    Le Buddhisme - Taine
>>    Weltauffas der Buddhisten - Bastian
>>    Brahma Somej: Four Lectures - Sen
>> 
>>    (William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism
>>        by Robert D. Richardson)
>> 
>> 


 
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