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Preface 6
Part I: Reflections on the Philosophy of
Religion 9
A Dialogue with God 10
John Burroughs on Immortality 11
John Burroughs on Religion 14
On Proving the Existence or Non-Existence
of God 18
Why Do People Believe in God? 19
Wishing and Believing 23
God is Dead? 24
Miracles 25
More on Miracles 25
Born Evil? 26
The Fall of Man 22
A Thought on Free Will and Determinism 28
Another Question of Free Will 29
Some Thoughts on Existentialism 30
Tragic? 32
Kierkegaard's Philosophy in a Nutshell 32
On a Passage in Kierkegaard 33
Two Other Passages of Kierkegaard 35
On a Passage of Walter Kaufman 36
Egotism and the Desire for Immortality 38
The Great War is Coming? 40
A Passage of Theodore Dreiser 42
An Absent-Minded Philosopher 44
Of Philosophers and Pigs 44
A Brief Conversation on Belief in God 45
The Fire God 46
A Thought on Reincarnation 46
Feeling and Belief 46
The Word "Better" 47
Goodness, Beauty, and Truth 47
Unamuno's Reason 47
Animal and Human Immortality 48
A Few Reminiscences 48
Wouldn't It Be Funny If- 51
Oh, That's Different, Is It? 54
Some Theological Illogicalities 55
A Couple of Queries 58
Why is This? 59
Speaking of Whitman 60
Consistency 60
Rationality and Rationaliztion 61
A Thought on Irrationality 63
Ways Out 64
It's Really Endless! 65
Some Thoughts on Sublimation 68
A Radical Extension of Pragmatism 70
A Thought Experiment 71
James and Meyers 73
More on Immortality 73
Part II: A Transcendental Journey 79
The Transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo
Emerson 80
Emerson in Relation to the Other
Transcendalists 128
Henry David Thoreau
128
Bronson Alcott 134
About Transcendentalism and
Transcendentalists 143
Part III Cosmic Consciousness Redux 163
Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke's Cosmic
Consciousness 164
What is Cosmic Consciousness? 166
Experiencing Cosmic Consciousness 171
Is Cosmic Consciousness a Form of Insanity?
173
Does Religion Rest on Delusions? 175
On the Validity of Mystical Experiences 178
Case Studies in Cosmic Consciousness 180
William Shakespeare 180
Saint Paul 183
Havelock Ellis 186
Walt Whitman 189
Edward Carpenter 193
Plotinus 200
William Blake 203
Dante 206
Honoré de Balzac 207
George Sand 210
William Wordsworth 212
Alfred Lord Tennyson 212
Cosmic Consciousness and Mysticism 214
Cosmic Consciousness and
Transcendentalism 219
Bibliography
223
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