The Afterdeath Journal of an American Philosopher; The World View of William James

by Jane Roberts

Book by Roberts, Jane

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Paperback

Published January 1, 2001

About the author

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Roberts was born in Saratoga Springs, New York. After attending public schools, she attended Skidmore College. She wrote in a variety of genres: poetry, short stories, children’s literature, and novels. When she was in her 30s, she and her husband began to record what she said were messages from a personality named "Seth", and she wrote several books about the experience.

Reviews

[Andrés]

The best book by Jane Robet's without Seth. This changed my life. Actually, that misstates the reality: along with The Nature of Personal Reality, this book gave me life.

[Lee]

One of the most fascinating books I've ever read. The Chapter on the divine presence filled me with an extraordinary sense of connection with all that is. And joy, so much joy.

[Alissa Ruppert]

To be able to gain any insight from what it may be like on the other side and see how a real person deals and re-lives his past choices and what he may need to focus on in his next life is amazing. I would recommend this book to anyone that would like to know of what it may be like afterdeath and how we still are ourselves and continually becoming.

[Marina Quattrocchi]

Fascinating book especially if you are a fan of Jane Roberts. Throughout the book Roberts channels William James who died in 1910. He was an American philosopher and psychologist and the first professor to offer a psychology course in the United States. He's best known for his books "The Principals of Psychology" and "Varieties of Religious Experience." He trained as a physician, but never actually practised medicine, because his first loves were psychology, religion, and mysticism. Since James lived during the time of Freud and Darwin he spends a lot of time discussing the problems and short comings with their theories. This is definitely not an easy read, quite a philosophical book, but intriguing. We're given lots of insight into life into the astral world. Jane Roberts also describes her life as she was writing his book, and how the relationship with William James developed. This is one of a handful of amazing books inspired or channelled by individuals who sincerely wished to help earthlings understand what awaits us on the other side.

[Todd]

This is a hard one to explain. Let's see, William James dictates the book from the afterlife to a living (at that time) psychic. It's hard to explain, but it is great book. No one has ever connected Freud, Darwin, and Protestantism for me in quite the way James/Roberts does. I'm afraid this is one of Roberts' books out of print, and I don't believe an ebook version is available. That's too bad. This is a very important book, and we shouldn't forget about it.

[Sylvia]

Excellent read! Gives an amazing good impression of HOW each person’s UNIQUE/OWN version of his or her after-death reality is experienced/perceived.

[Douglas]

If you want to think about existence and life and death and melancholy and personal growth and the power of nature, this is the book for you.

[Lydia]

Excellent

[Duncan Smith]

An extraordinary book. The section on life after death is among the best of its type that I've read.

[Mitchell]

Picked this up thinking it was actually a biography/analysis of the works of William james, not remembering who Jane Roberts is. I don't have a problem with channelers, she can put out 'Seth' books until the cows come home and if people want to read them it's no skin off my back, but to deliberately claim it to be somehow related to the works of an actual philosopher/writer and not clearly label it as fanfiction is duplicitous. I stopped reading after she/they/it admitted that they hadn't actually read james' work and were simply basing this stream-of-consciousness scrawling off an impression on the kind of thoughts she/they/it thought he would have had. Up until that point it was pretty standard New Age lunacy.