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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.

The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.

William James
Splits, May, Consciousness
William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.93, Harvard University Press

There is but one indefectibly certain truth , and that is the truth that pyrrhonistic scepticism itself leaves standing, the truth that the present phenomenon of consciousness exists.

William James
Consciousness, Certain, Phenomenon
William James (2000). “Pragmatism and Other Writings”, p.260, Penguin

The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.

William James
Education, World, Consciousness
William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.497, Booklassic

The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.

William James
Opinion, Consciousness, Mystic
William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.387, Courier Corporation

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