"... In an essay called 'On Human Immortality', written in 1898, William James suggested that mind, cognition, or mental awareness are the result of the essential reality of the universe being transmitted through the 'receiving station' of the brain. James does not attempt to describe the nature of this essential reality, except through metaphors such as air passing through the pipes of an organ, or as invisible light or 'white radiance'. But he makes it clear that human consciousness is an influx of this essential stuff. He says that our own "sphere of being" that is of the same nature as 'that more real world' ..."__(read more)