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9781108027731

Cosmic Consciousness

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  • ISBN13:

    9781108027731

  • ISBN10:

    1108027733

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011-01-27
  • Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

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Summary

This work, published in 1901, is the culmination of a lifetime of research and contemplation in which Richard Maurice Bucke (18371902) expounds his theory of the development and evolution of consciousness in living things. He uses his own experiences, those of contemporaries such as Tennyson, and of historical figures such as Francis Bacon, as evidence for moments of higher consciousness and intellect known as 'cosmic consciousness'. Bucke's theory is of three states of progressive consciousness, attained through evolution. The Simple Consciousness of animals, Self Consciousness of man to understand his place in the universe, and Cosmic Consciousness, where man might grow to understand the life and order of the cosmos. This pinnacle of understanding is a progression assisted by evolution that Bucke hopes will one day come to all men. A thought-provoking book at any time, full of optimism for the intellectual future of the human race.

Table of Contents

Dedication
Notice
List of books quoted
Table of contents
First Words
Evolution and Devolution
To self consciousness
On the plane of self consciousness
Devolution
From Self to Cosmic Consciousness
Instances of Cosmic Consciousness
Gautuma the Buddha
Jesus the Christ
Paul
Plotinus
Mohammed
Dante
Las Casas
John Yepes
Francis Bacon
Jacob Behmen
William Blake
Honoré de Balzac
Walt Whitman
Edward Carpenter
Additional - Some of Them Lesser, Imperfect, and Doubtful Instances
The twilight
Moses
Gideon
Isaiah
Li R
Socrates
Roger Bacon
Pascal
Benedict Spinoza
James Gardiner
Swedenborg
William Wordsworth
Charles G. Finney
Alexander Pushkin
Emerson
Tennyson
J. B. B.
H. D. Thoreau
J. B.
C. P.
H. B.
R. P. S.
E. T.
Ramakrisana Paramahansa
J. H. J.
T. S. R.
W. H. W.
Richard Jefferies
C. M. C.
M. C. L.
J. W. W.
J. William Lloyd
Horace Traubel
Paul Tyner
C. Y. E.
A. J. S.
Last Words
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