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William James' Varieties of Religious Experience

. He was able to discover meaning within the experience that he considered religious meaning. This is what human beings do, among other things. Human beings make meaning in the world out of their perception of various aspects of reality.

To explain the cause of an experience is not to indicate its meaning, in this view. It is not to limit the meaning nor to make the experience or its experiencer inferior to another type of experience, resulting from other causes. It is human beings that create and compare meanings and experiences. There is no absolute standard that can be related to in science or medical materialism. That is also a matter of opinion, or meaning-making.

With his rejection of medical materialism, Jam

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