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James, William - The Varieties of Religious Experience - Ineffable good
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002749
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
This may have been ecstasyA description of the experience
The Varieties of Religious Experience – William James
“There was not a mere consciousness of something there, but fused in the central happiness of it, a startling awareness of some ineffable good. Not vague either, not like the emotional effect of some poem, or scene or blossom, of music, but the sure knowledge of the close presence of a sort of mighty person, and after it went, the memory persisted as the one perception of reality. Everything else might be a dream, but not that”