Posted by youngeil on October 21, 1999 at 18:20:55:

In Reply to: from "the varaties of religious experience" posted by Anne Howard on September 22, 1999 at 09:37:33:

: Please tell me what you think Mr. James means when he talks about Medical Materialism, in lecture 2 of "the varaties of religious experience.
: thank you.

In terms of "medical materialism", it can be recognized from the text that James is using a reductive term here which explains that any type of religious or spiritual experience may be attributed to some type of physical condition. The severity or quality of the condition may contribute to or induce the experience. So basically, a "vision" that some person may have had could have been because of a severe headache, during which this person felt that they were seeing apparitions of some sort. Medical materialism is just an easy way to give actual physiological reason to unexplainable experiences had by people.

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