The Swami and the Rorschach: Spiritual Practice, Religious Experience, and Perception
The Innate Capacity December 4, 1997 Diane Jonte-Pace
Abstract NEARLY A CENTURY after William James initiated the psychological study of mysticism with the publication of The Varieties of Religious Experience, Robert Forman has returned to James’s project by issuing a call for a psychologia perennis. This “perennial psychology” would investigate mystical or nonordinary states of consciousness and the transformative processes that produce them....