William James
William James in his work “Religious Experience as the Root of Religion” argued that there is no validity in the claim of rationalism to assert the existence of only one consciousness. He based this off the foundation that the human being first perceives reality through the senses and that the human intellect comes into action after the individual feels the occurring experience. James attempted to expand his argument through objectively drawing factual evidence from what he referred to as a “mystical state of consciousness,” in order to bring about a broader realm of truth outside of rationalism. Through logic James concluded that there were three statements of authority: 1) that mystical states have authority over those individuals having the experience, 2) that no authority could come from the mystical experience of the individual, and 3) that the mystical state shattered any rationalistic claim that held objectivity to be the sole revealer of truth. The first statement of authority is founded upon the cornerstone that the human being gathers facts t
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