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Cover of The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James

The Varieties of Religious Experience

William James · 1817
Mentioned 8 times across 5 podcasts · 2022–2026
Mention timeline8 mentions
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Where it's mentioned
2026
Addiction, Faith, and the Limits of Willpower (with Meghan O'Gieblyn)
EconTalk · Oct 2026
“I'd read The Varieties of Religious Experience before, um, but I went back and read it again”
What Humans, Animals and Plants Tell Us About Consciousness | Michael Pollan
Huberman Lab · Sep 2026
“In my case, I thought back to William James, who had written in in Varieties of Mystical Experience Uh that you can't really judge the veracity of a Of a Big insight on a mystical experience”
Gretchen Rubin - How Curiosity Becomes a Calling (Ep. 320)
Infinite Loops · Jun 2026
“The Varieties of Religious Experience. I'm like I'm like when am I gonna reread that”
Michael Pollan’s Journey to the Borderlands of Consciousness
The Ezra Klein Show · Mar 2026
“he'd written uh the varieties of uh religious experience and there's a fantastic chapter there on mystical experience”
2025
#805: Philip Goff — Exploring Consciousness and Non-Ordinary Religion, Galileo's Error, Panpsychism, Heretical Ideas, and Therapeutic Belief
The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2025
“the varieties of religious. But would you start there or would you have people start somewhere else”
2023
#694: Sam Corcos, Co-Founder of Levels — The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Assistants, 10x Delegation, and Winning Freedom by Letting Go (Plus: Creating Leverage with Tools, Systems, and Processes)
The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2023
“It's like, Yeah, that sounds a lot like Varieties of Religious Experience by uh William James”
2022
#646: Brian C. Muraresku with Dr. Mark Plotkin — The Eleusinian Mysteries, Discovering the Divine, The Immortality Key, The Pagan Continuity Hypothesis, Lessons from Scholar Karen Armstrong, and Much More
The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2022
“That's what he writes about in the varieties, right”
#641: Roland Griffiths, PhD — Life’s Ultimate Glide Path, An Unexpected Stage IV Diagnosis, Facing Death, How Meditation and Psychedelics Can Help, and The Art of Living a Life of Gratitude
The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2022
“starting with William James. At the turn of the century where he wrote varieties of religious experience”