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William James believed that the varieties of religious experiences should be sought by psychologists, because they represent the closest thing to a microscope of the mind — that is, they show us in drastically enlarged form the normal processes of things.

For a useful interpretation of human reality, to share faith experience he said that we must each make certain " over-beliefs " in things which, while they cannot be proven on the basis of experience, help us to live fuller and better lives.