Cosmic Consciousness

 In Cosmic Consciousness, Bucke stated that he discerned three forms, or degrees, of consciousness:^[1]

• Simple consciousness, possessed by both animals and mankind
• Self-consciousness, possessed by mankind, encompassing thought, reason, and imagination
• Cosmic consciousness, which is "a higher form of consciousness than that possessed by the ordinary man" ^[2]

There are mainly seven levels of consciousness which make up the path of spiritual development, are:

1. The state of waking consciousness;
2. Deep sleep;
3. Dreaming;
4. Transcendental consciousness;
5. Cosmic consciousness;
6. God consciousness;
7. Unity consciousness.

According to Bucke,

This consciousness shows the cosmos to consist not of dead matter governed by unconscious, rigid, and unintending law; it shows it on the contrary as entirely immaterial, entirely spiritual and entirely alive; it shows that death is an absurdity, that everyone and everything has eternal life; it shows that the universe is God and that God is the universe, and that no evil ever did or ever will enter into it; a great deal of this is, of course, from the point of view of self consciousness, absurd; it is nevertheless undoubtedly true.^[3]

Moores said that Bucke's cosmic consciousness is an interconnected way of seeing things "which is more of an intuitive knowing than it is a factual understanding".^[4] Moores pointed out that, for scholars of the purist camp, the experience of cosmic consciousness is incomplete without the element of love, "which is the foundation of mystical consciousness":^[5]

Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Consciousness

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