About this title: 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 predisposition that caused Bucke to expound on the idea that ?cosmic? awakening comes mainly to middle-aged, Caucasian males, a posit which is bound to generate controversy in the wake of today?s politically correct climate. However, this work still has ...
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780140193374ISBN:0140193375
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback, sound copy. Pages tight with owner name in front and back, text unmarked and clean. A couple minor creases to pages, no stains or tears. Cover is shiny and clean with moderate wear. Spine is smooth.... Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 402 p. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Citadel
Date Published: 1993-09
ISBN-13:9780806502113ISBN:0806502118
Description: Good. Binding is tight and square. Text is clean and bright. An average used paperback with wear, corner bumps, small creases, light stains, etc. P/O name is on FFEP. Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend EXPEDITED MAIL for even faster delivery! read more
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780140193374ISBN:0140193375
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. sd Practically brand new! Minor shelfwear/rubbing on cover. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 416 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: [24th ed.].
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: E. P. Dutton, New York
Date Published: 1969
Description: Fair. No dust jacket. Highlighting/underlining. edge wear; writing on cover. 384 p. illus. 25 cm. Includes Illustrations. Bibliography: p. [vii]-xv. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780140193374ISBN:0140193375
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. VG copy with slight shelf wear. No writing, underlining, names, etc. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 416 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: E. P. Dutton
Date Published: 1951
Description: Good. Good Hardcover in Fair DJ. A small amount of pages contain underlining. Bookplate on end paper. Pages are clean, crisp and. Binding is tight, hinges strong. DJ is edge worn.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Free Delivery Confirmation! Ships same or next business day! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: E. P. Dutton
Date Published: 1951
Description: Acceptable. Fourteenth edition 1948. 384 pages. Hardcover. Ex-Library book with typical library markings including pocket. Occasional markings. Cover is worn, no D/J, binding is tight. Your purchase benefits world-wide relief efforts of Mennonite Central Committee. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University Books
Date Published: 1961-01-01
Description: Good. Vintage hardcover which lacks its dust jacket, is otherwise in excellent shape, no markings, clean and fresh, has fading to wine hardboards, which have a small scuff or two. MendoPower Employment Services will immediately and carefully pack this book in high-quality bubble lined, envelopes. We appreciate your business and welcome any questions. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Applewood Books
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9781557094995ISBN:1557094993
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"I am having trouble taking this book seriously. Many of the things are so outdated. I don't agree with some of his postulates. For example, he says children do not have a sense of music and I know from raising 3 children that they all developed a sense of music quite early. Some of the ideas are things I have already developed in my own belief system. The idea that humanity is developing from a baby to an adult as a person does is very fascinating to me. But I think he takes much of his argument for granted without giving much real scientific evidence. This may be because it was first published in 1901
9/12/09 I did enjoy reading some of the experiences but the summary he put at the end of each one was very annoying. I will keep this book and may use it as a reference."
This study is from the early days of the psychiatric profession when its practitioners could still write seriously of spiritual and mystical matters without being ostracised or ridiculed as "unscientific." Briefly, the author personally experienced a sudden episode of enlightenment and rapture that, while it was only of brief duration, changed his outlook on life forever. He spent the rest of his life, he was in his mid-thirties at the time, trying to figure out what had happened to him, and if there were any others.
What he found was that such sudden occurances of enlightenment, these epiphanies, had been occuring to mystics, philosophers, writers, and artists all through recorded history. Not only that, but they were occuring with increased frequency as time went on. Bucke concluded that this marked an evolutionary trend. Carried out to its logical conclusion, he postulated that one day "cosmic consciousness" as he termed it, would be as common in the human race as self consciousness currently is. He based this on the manner in which the ancestors of man slowly climbed from the simple consciousness of animals to an almost universal state of self consciousness.
Having experienced a simular event in my mid-thirties (remember, it happens to varying degrees), I found this book to be immensely personally relevant- as it has proven to be to many of us for over one hundred years now."
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