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Francis Parkman, The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada [1851] (Lincoln University of Nebraska Press, 1994), Vol. I, pp. 41-44. For powefully racialized interpretations of U.S. history, see also John Fiske, American Political Ideas (New York Harper and Bros., 1885), The Beginnings of New England The Puritan Theocracy and its Relations to Civil and Religious Liberty (London Macmillan, 1889), The Discovery of America (Boston Houghton Mifflin, 1892), and A History of the United States for Schools (Boston Houghton Mifflin, 1907). 

Nonetheless, Munsterberg did not actually invent the term as it turns out, as early as 1890 the noted American psychologist William James, a justly celebrated author of The Varieties of Religious Experience (1901), used the adjective ready-made. Most interesting in this interpretive context is the fact that James employed the term to describe the adherents of the Esoteric Tradition (one of whom later, 1913, actually used the term ready-made), especially those who believed that mediums could actually communicate with the spirits of the dead. James then scoffingly said (notwithstanding his... 

Timothy Leary, "The Religious Experience Its Production and Interpretation," Psychedelic Review, 3,1964, p. 324. 

While observing patients during the final months of life, one can see certain defense mechanisms developing in an attempt either to structure death and subsequent "existence" or to deny all possibility of death and assume an eerie positivism that seems surrealistic in character (Field, 1956). The usual clinical approach to death is by a combination of both, and it seems to take an extraordinary toll of a person s ability to relate to his environment and communicate with his family. He becomes isolated and is deprived, to a large extent, of his ability to experience realistically and deeply these last months or weeks of greatest importance in his life. Therefore, interference seems justified if it enables the patient to see and feel with greater intensity. Of course, such medicinal interference must not tamper with the patient s religious ideas and must have the latitude to permit any philosophic interpretation. This study attempts to explore LSD as a means... 

Religious expectations invite the same advice as intellectual set. Again, the subject in early sessions is best advised to float with the stream, stay "up" as long as possible, and postpone theological interpretations until the end of the session, or to later sessions. 

If our religious interpreters had followed closely the teachings of the Hermetic Art, which contains within itself all the priceless symbolism of religion, with its true interpretation-if they had followed these teachings they would have perceived their purity, and these would have been retained by... 

In the compass of our study it is pertinent to ask how humanistic skeptics fared in the Reformation debate. Erasmus, Agrippa of Nettesheim, and Castellio, who were clearly identified as skeptics by their contemporaries, deserve our special attention. Participants in the religious debate showed no tolerance for skeptical humanists and saw no useful application for their method. On the contrary, skepticism impeded their purpose, which was the clarification of doctrine. It could not be marshaled in support of a specific interpretation. It could not aid in the process of con-... 

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