Adrie said to Marsha:
Hmm, yes , i was aware of it, please keep in mind the "Timewindow" William was
living in, in that time , he was far ahead of everyone, in this frame, during
that time, it was all state of the art. ...James planted the seeds , some live
on , some not. The survivors are still cutting edge of insights.
dmb says:
As I understand it, a lot of what James said over a hundred years ago is just
now being vindicated. His notions about the stream of consciousness were
directly translated from Buddhist terms AND the most advanced of today's brain
scanners are proving him right. Here's a little Wikipedia on the topic...
Buddhism and psychology
During the 1970s, several experimental studies suggested that Buddhist
meditation could produce insights into a wide range of psychological states.
Interest in the use of meditation as a means of providing insight into
mind-states has recently been revived, following the increased availability of
such brain-scanning technologies as fMRI and SPECT.
Such studies are enthusiastically encouraged by the present Dalai Lama, Tenzin
Gyatso, who has long expressed an interest in exploring the connection between
Buddhism and science and regularly attends the Mind and Life Institute
Conferences. ...
William James often drew on Buddhist cosmology when framing perceptual
concepts, such as his term "stream of consciousness," which is the literal
English translation of the Pali vinnana-sota. The "stream of consciousness" is
given various names throughout the many languages of Buddhadharma discourse but
in English is generally known as "Mindstream". In Varieties of Religious
Experience James also promoted the functional value of meditation for modern
psychology. He wrote: "This is the psychology everybody will be studying
twenty-five years from now."
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