This 19th-century treatise by neurologist Richard M. Bucke is an attempt to create an all-encompassing theory of mystical experience, an idea bound to be controversial. Bucke suggests that heaven is actually a form of divine perception, validating his speculations on cosmic consciousness via his own mystical experience. Perhaps it is this ...
Wildly arrogant, stunningly bombastic, and undeniably fascinating. This 1901 work-the masterpiece of an eclectic genius whose life encompassed medical science, mystical transcendence, and prospecting for gold-posits a higher form of sentience that only a few humans have ever achieved, among them Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, Dante, William Blake, and ...
What is Cosmic Consciousness ? The present volume is an attempt to answer this question; but notwithstanding it seems well to make a short prefatory statement in as plain language as possible so as to open the door, as it were, for the more elaborate exposition to be attempted in the body of the work. Cosmic Conciousness, then, is a higher form of ...
What is Cosmic Consciousness ? The present volume is an attempt to answer this question; but notwithstanding it seems well to make a short prefatory statement in as plain language as possible so as to open the door, as it were, for the more elaborate exposition to be attempted in the body of the work. Cosmic Conciousness, then, is a higher form of ...
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