[MD] Reifying carrots

[118]

Hi Marsha,

Yes, open in a way, but very directed by the concept of psychology.
This is a construct that is used to control and confuse.  In today's
world it is very prevalent, and our saviors are now psychologists.
What a racket!

Mark

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 12:46 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
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> 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
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> On Dec 4, 2010, at 11:53 PM, 118 wrote:
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>> 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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