...if the change be a religious one, we call it a conversion, especially if it be by crisis, or sudden. Let us hereafter, in speaking of the hot place in...his personal energy. It makes a great difference to a"man whether one set of his ideas, or another, be the centre of his energy ; and it makes a great...

...personal experience of middle adolescence, is, I will quote the pictorial words of James. He writes: "Let us hereafter, in speaking of the hot place in...and from which he works, call it the habitual centre oj his personal energy. It makes a great difference to a man whether one set of his ideas, or another,...

...James speaks of the conversion climax as follows: "Let us hereafter, in speaking of the hot places in a man's consciousness, the group of ideas to which...and from which he works, call it the habitual centre oj his personal energy. It makes a great difference to a man whether one set of his ideas, or another,...

...James speaks of the conversion climax as follows: "Let us hereafter, in speaking of the hot places in a man's consciousness, the group of ideas to which...devotes himself, and from which he works, call it the habilual centre oj his personal energy. It makes a great difference to a man whether one set of his...

...energy." In his definition of Conversion he says (Varieties of Religious Experience, page 196) "Let us, in speaking of the hot place in a man's consciousness,...himself, and from which he works, call it the habitual center of his personal energy. It makes a great difference to a man whether one set of his ideas, or...

...consequence of its hold upon religious realities." "Let us hereafter, in speaking of the hot places in a man's consciousness, the group of ideas to which...himself, and from which he works, call it the habitual center of his personal energy. It makes a great difference to a man whether one set of his ideas, or...

...religious aims form the habitual center of his energy." * By the habitual center of energy James means "the hot place in a man's consciousness, the group...which he devotes himself, and from which he works." 1 There are many groups of ideas or aims figuring in an individual's mental world, some shunted off...

...William James' classic study, The Varieties of Religions Experience (1971). James called attention to "the hot place in a man's consciousness, the group of ideas to which he devotes himself . . . the habitual center of his personal energy." This means, says James, that when a person is "converted,"...

...religion's greatest classic, William James' (1902) The Varieties of Religious Experience. James referred to "the hot place in a man's consciousness, the group...which he devotes himself, and from which he works" (p. 193) as the "habitual centre of personal energy." According to James, It makes a great difference...

...rivals from the individual's life," we call it a transformation. Such changes, says James, occur in the "hot place in a man's consciousness, the group...which he devotes himself, and from which he works." James identifies this place as "the habitual center of his personal energy."5 William James psychologizes...