The Oceanic Feeling : The Origins of Religious Sentiment in Ancient India
vide Jeffrey Moussaieff's influence from Daniel H.H. Ingalls, professor of Sanskrit at Harvard, and Louis Renou, Indologist in Paris. Interestingly in his 1990 book _Final_Analysis_ he wrote, "[I] slowly began to free myself from a belief that they [Pali and Sanskrit texts] were 'the truth.' They were simply one among a myriad of beliefs that owed their power primarily to the fact that people were born into them, or had the ideas drilled into them over and over."
William James used the phrase "oceanic feeling" to describe mystical religious experiences.
