as freshly as in the first morning of creation; and the hour is just as fit as any hour that ever was for a new gospel of cheer to be preached. I am sure that one can, by merely thinking of these matters of fact, limit the power of one's evil moods over one's way of looking at the Kosmos.

May I suggest that Mr. Castillo's club consider picking up William James; or at least his excellent expositor John Kaag's Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James can save your life… substack.com/@philoliver/...

It would be an awful universe if everything could be converted into words, words, words.

One of my new mentors, the late John Compton, sidled up to me in the campus bookstore one afternoon and remarked of the text I happened at that moment to be browsing–it was John J. McDermott’s Writings of William James: A Comprehensive Edition– “Willy James!”
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no one of us can get along without the far-flashing beams of light it sends over the world's perspectives. These illuminations at least, and the contrast-effects of darkness and mystery that accompany them, give to what it says an interest that is much more than professional.

Good news: the full recording we thought was botched exists after all: jcbmtsu.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Page...

—Levinas and James: toward a pragmatic phenomenology

Only over the past 100 years has the discipline, through an “analytic turn,” been “trying to reduce all of human experience to the understandable, to the explicable,” he said. “And James says, no, reality always outstrips the descriptions of it — and that’s for the best.”

“The findings of psychedelics wouldn’t have surprised Heraclitus, Plato, Plotinus, Spinoza, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Emerson, Nietzsche and, most certainly, William James,” John Kaag, a philosopher at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell and an expert on James, told me.