Who
Bessel van der Kolk is a psychiatrist and the author of The Body Keeps the Score. John Kaag is a philosopher, Rebind’s executive editor, and the author of Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life. They read James together, on camera.
The book
Twenty lectures on what religion feels like from the inside: the healthy mind, the sick soul, conversion, saintliness, mysticism. Not a book about God, a book about experience, from the founder of American psychology. Long, and built for skipping to the high points.
What you’ll come away with
James’s way of taking strange inner experience seriously without explaining it away, and what a trauma psychiatrist makes of it now, from the sick soul to the divided self.
