Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human MindCosimo, Inc., 2006 M07 1 - 404 pages All at once, without warning of any kind, he found himself wrapped around as it were by a flame colored cloud.... Directly afterwards came upon him a sense of exultation, of immense joyousness accompanied or immediately followed by an intellectual illumination quite impossible to describe. Into his brain streamed one momentary lightning-flash of the Brahmic Splendor which has ever since lightened his life.... -from "First Words" Wildly arrogant, stunningly bombastic, and undeniably fascinating. This 1901 work-the masterpiece of an eclectic genius whose life encompassed medical science, mystical transcendence, and prospecting for gold-posits a higher form of sentience that only a few humans have ever achieved, among them Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, Dante, William Blake, and the author himself, of course. As Bucke shares his metaphysical experience of the "cosmic consciousness" and offers evidence for the few instances in history of its occurrence ("it may as well be frankly stated at once that the view of the present editor is that Francis Bacon wrote the 'Shakespeare' plays and poems"), the reader may well be moved to throw this bizarre and highly intriguing book furiously across the room... if the reader can put it down at all, that is. Canadian mystic and doctor RICHARD MAURICE BUCKE (1837-1902) was a pioneer in the medical treatment of mental illness; his famous friendship with Walt Whitman was the subject of the 1992 movie Beautiful Dreamers. He also wrote Man's Moral Nature (1879) and an 1883 authorized biography of Whitman. |
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... appear to the intelligent reader what it is : A matter of course - an inevitable sequel to what preceded and led up to it . In attempting to give an idea of this vast evolution of mental phenomena from its beginning in far off geologic ...
... appear to the intelligent reader what it is : A matter of course - an inevitable sequel to what preceded and led up to it . In attempting to give an idea of this vast evolution of mental phenomena from its beginning in far off geologic ...
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... appearing . Sexual instinct or passion arose far back in geo- logic ages - the human moral nature of which human sexual love is a young and vigorous branch does not appear to have been in existence many tens of thousands of years . III ...
... appearing . Sexual instinct or passion arose far back in geo- logic ages - the human moral nature of which human sexual love is a young and vigorous branch does not appear to have been in existence many tens of thousands of years . III ...
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... appear to us -- though just what the sensa- tions were which they so named cannot of course be now ascer- tained . Under the name red it seems they included with that color white , yellow and all intermediate tints ; while under the ...
... appear to us -- though just what the sensa- tions were which they so named cannot of course be now ascer- tained . Under the name red it seems they included with that color white , yellow and all intermediate tints ; while under the ...
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... appear- ance in the " Song of Songs . " According to the description in Genesis there were in Paradise all kinds of trees " that were pleas- ant to the sight and good for food , " no mention being made of pleasant odors . The ...
... appear- ance in the " Song of Songs . " According to the description in Genesis there were in Paradise all kinds of trees " that were pleas- ant to the sight and good for food , " no mention being made of pleasant odors . The ...
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... appear in the individual ( on the average ) until , say , half - way between three years old and matur- ity . Instead of one or two in a thousand , several times the same number in a hundred are born , grow up and die without a moral ...
... appear in the individual ( on the average ) until , say , half - way between three years old and matur- ity . Instead of one or two in a thousand , several times the same number in a hundred are born , grow up and die without a moral ...
Contents
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62 | 81 |
3 | 87 |
5 | 97 |
6 | 104 |
13 | 215 |
14 | 237 |
ROGER BACON | 269 |
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH | 285 |
16 | 292 |
J | 298 |
R P | 308 |
T S | 317 |
BARTOLOMÉ LAS CASAS | 138 |
JOHN YEPES | 149 |
9 | 177 |
11 | 191 |
HONORÉ DE BALZAC | 198 |
J W | 332 |
J WILLIAM LLOYD | 342 |
PAUL TYNER | 351 |
A J | 361 |
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appear attained Bacon Balzac become Behmen belongs birth Blake body born Buddhist called Casas Christ color sense compared concepts conscious mind Cosmic Consciousness Cosmic Sense creature Dante death divine earth Edward Carpenter eternal evil evolution existence experience expression eyes fact faculty feeling Francis Bacon Gautama give glory heart immortality individual infinite intellect Jesus kingdom of heaven knew knowledge language Leaves of Grass less living Lord Louis Lambert Max Mueller means mental merely self conscious Mohammed ness never night Nirvâna oncoming pass passages Paul perhaps person Plotinus possession race says Whitman sciousness seems seen Shakespeare simple consciousness Sonnets soul speak spiritual subjective light sweet teaching tell thee things thought thousand tion to-day transhumanized true truth universe unto upādāna vision voice volume Walt Whitman William Stainton Moses words writings written Yepes
Popular passages
Page 172 - Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace.
Page 120 - For which cause we faint not ; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory...
Page 110 - His lord said unto him. Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
Page 107 - But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying; Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
Page 109 - And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage, and the door was shut.
Page 180 - Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
Page 286 - Is lightened: — that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on, — Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul: While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
Page 107 - Why stand ye here all the day idle ? They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard ; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive. So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.
Page 171 - If it were fill'd with your most high deserts? Though yet, heaven knows, it is but as a tomb Which hides your life and shows not half your parts.
Page 108 - ... penny. And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house, saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.