Sunday, December 16, 2012

Instances Of Cosmic Consciousness: Illuminated Individuals



Cosmic Consciousness

by Richard Maurice Bucke

[1901]

 This is an attempted scientific study of illuminated individuals. Bucke provides three dozen very consistent examples of 'cosmic consciousness.' Some of these are the usual suspects, and others are contemporary case-histories which Bucke collected. Bucke proposed that these enlightened figures are evolutionary jumps, the precedecessor of a more advanced species.



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