Cosmic Consciousness

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Cosmic Consciousness is the term used by R. M. Bucke to describe the Consciousness attained during an intense Zenith Experience with "cosmic" content[1].

Notes

Bucke sees Cosmic Consciousness as the last step forward in human evolution. From Simple Consciousness through Self Consciousness to Cosmic Consciousness does humanity finally come.

On the LP we would not see Cosmic Consciousness as the outcome of an evolutionary process but as the natural outcome of a Healthy Development process free of the pathogenic and disconnecting Toxic Socialization.

Cosmic Consciousness is a third form which is as far above Self Consciousness as is that above Simple Consciousness....The prime characteristic of cosmic consciousness is...a consciousness of the cosmos, that is, of the life and order of the universe....Along with the consciousness of the cosmos there occurs an intellectual enlightenment or illumination which alone would place the individual on a new plane of existence—would make him almost a member of a new species. To this is added a state of moral exaltation, an indescribable feeling of elevation, elation and joyousness, and a quickening of the moral sense, which is fully as striking and more important both to the individual and to the race than is the enhanced intellectual power. With these come, what may be called, a sense of immortality, a consciousness of eternal life, not a conviction that he shall have this, but the consciousness that he has it already.[2]


References

  1. Bucke, Richard Maurice. Cosmic Consciousness. Book Tree. Kindle Edition. See Talk:Glimpse for an account of Bucke's Connection Event
  2. Bucke, Richard Maurice. Cosmic Consciousness (Kindle Locations 231-248). Book Tree. Kindle Edition.