The Apology of Experience the Liverpool Lecture 1913 Delivered in St Peter
The Apology of Experience the Liverpool Lecture 1913 Delivered in St Peter
William Boyd Carpenter
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It will be seen that this agrees with Prof James's twofold division. The uneasiness which he mentions corresponds with conviction, and his 1 6 The Apology of Experierice. ^'solution" covers what Prof. Starbuck calls Crisis and New Life. The new life, he says, is the real self Throughout it is the real self which is being sought. After the awakening contentment with the lower life is impossible and no rest is reached till the higher life is accepted as the true life in which the true self is fou...nd. " The feeling of ' oneness ' (with God or Christ) is the experience in which the most prominent thing which presents itself at the time is the sense of freedom and harmony that follows the change, and the consciousness that the life is now the completer embodiment of the larger spiritual world" (Starbuck, "Psychology and Religion, " p. I6i). It is to be remembered that these descriptions of spiri- tual experiences are given by men who approach the matter from the standpoint of intellectual inquirers : they affirm that the experiences are not only numerous and sufficient to be considered exhibitions of fact, but that these experiences are marked by a common note : they follow a clear and regular cycle : they can be classified under one type : they indicate what we may call a psychical law.
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