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“Because we remember pain and the menace of death more vividly than pleasure, and because our feelings toward the beneficent aspects of the unknown have from the first been captured and formalised by conventional religious rituals, it has fallen to the lot of the darker and more maleficent side of cosmic mystery to figure chiefly in our popular supernatural folklore.”

Source: The Complete Fiction Collection vol III

“Religion, therefore, as I now ask you arbitrarily to take it, shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine. Since the relation may be either moral, physical, or ritual, it is evident that out of religion in the sense in which we take it, theologies, philosophies, and ecclesiastical organizations may secondarily grow.”

Men May Mean Philosophy Feelings Asks Individual Grows Moral Divine Solitude Organization Relation Theology Ritual Evident

Book:James and Dewey on Belief and Experience

Source: James and Dewey on Belief and Experience

“Most souls attend their funerals and have some feelings about them, but it's such an individual event. Some souls don't care what happens to their physical bodies. They see the funeral as a ritual for the living so they don't always attend.”

Soul Feelings Body Happens Care Individual Events Don't Care Ritual Funeral Physical Body

Book:Echoes of the Soul: The Soul's Journey Beyond the Light — Through Life, Death, and Life After Death

Source: Echoes of the Soul: The Soul's Journey Beyond the Light — Through Life, Death, and Life After Death