“…Like James, and in keeping with his value of experience as radical empiricism, they also believed that the core of authentic religion was religious experience rather than dogma. What's more, Jodie Nicotra links James’ psychedelic drug use with his attempt to reconcile dualisms, as well as with his desire to block “the habitual self in order to make way for difference or transformation—that is, for a more open, responsive, and ethical relation to the world”(213).…”