William James
When the Anagarika Dharmapala was visiting Boston in December, 1903, he went to William James's class at Harvard University.
I tried unobtrusively to reach the back of the lecture-hall to hear the great teacher of psychology, but it is difficult for a man in a yellow robe to be inconspicuous in America. Professor James saw me and motioned for me to come to the front of the hall. He said: "Take my chair, and I shall sit with my students. You are better equipped to lecture on psychology than I am." After I had outlined to his advanced class some elements of Buddhist doctrine, he turned to his students and said, "This is the psychology everybody will be studying twenty-five years from now."[1]
Theosophical Society involvement
"Prof. William James" was admitted as a member of the Boston Lodge of the Theosophical Society on June 25, 1891.[2] His home address was given as 95 Irving St., Cambridge, Massachusetts. He dropped his membership on April 28, 1895 following the secession of many American lodges that year.
Additional resources
- William James: The Pragmatic Visionary by Edward Hoffman.
- William James, Theosophist by Tony Lysy.
- William James at Wikipedia.
- William James Natal Horoscope at Khaldea.
- James, William at Theosophy World.
Notes
- ↑ Anagarika Dharmapala, "On the Eightfold Path: Memories of an Interpreter of Buddhism to the Present-Day World," Asia (September, 1927), 720.
- ↑ Theosophical Society General Membership Register, 1875-1942 at http://tsmembers.org/. See book 1, entry 7197 (website file: 1C/32).
