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William James… Too complexly pragmatic to sufficiently deeply recognize the mysteries of life in the world?

Life amidst The Asleep. Polite amid the dormant polity.

Having been raised in a rather fully happy-earthly-life way, I came — also via some dramatic events in early manhood ( though I was hardly a man) while on the road — to a kind of inner, dedicated, lost-seeking-found monkdom.

Deepening a deepened knowledge of History amidst a people living, thinking and being in its massive unconscious shared ahistoria. Where and how shall I find a serious conversation?

It is as if — in fact it, I, was so — I need(ed) compare my life, my acts, thoughts and intents to others in history. Certainly my upbringing and inherited social groups gave me no such preparation. And learning from the greats of history is like “polite deference and modesty” on a deeper level.

The professor does project too much, methinks.

‘Nature as a reflection of spirit’as a disincarnating relation to human being.

With so many years with Emerson and Nietzsche, and attempting periodically to consider their relationship – Nietzsche known knowing Emerson – a scholar clarifies to me this early morn the deep differences of their “cosmologies” and therefore in their anthropologies…their ideas and beliefs of Man in the world.