Cosmic Consciousness by Richard Maurice Bucke

Author:Richard Maurice Bucke [BUCKE, RICHARD MAURICE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Alternative Medicine, Anthropology, Archetypes, Awareness, Biofeedback, Biology, Body Awareness, Bodywork, Buddhism, Channeling, Cognition, Communication, Compassion, Consciousness, Cosmology, Creativity, Death and Dying, Dreams and Dreaming, Enlightenment, Evolution, Existentialism, Futurism, Gaia, Goddess, Healing, Holographic, Humanistic Psychology, Hyperspace, Hypnosis, Imagery, Initiation, Intuition, Jungian Psychology, Magic, Meditation, Memory, Metaphysics, Mind-Body, Mindfullness, Morphogenetic Fields, Music, Mysticism, Mythology, Native Peoples, Novelists, Parapsychology, Personal Development, Personality, Philosophy, Physics, Poetry, Primordial Tradition, Psychedelics, Psychic Abilities, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Quantum Physics, Reincarnation, Religion, Shamanism, Social Awareness, Spiritual Teachers, Spiritual Psychology, Spirituality, Stress, Subconscious, Sufism, Synchronicity, Tantra, Time, Transformation, Transpersonal Psychology, Unconscious, Wisdom, Yoga
ISBN: 9781907355790
Publisher: White Crow Productions Ltd

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Summary

a. Blake seems to have entered into Cosmic Consciousness when a little more than thirty years of age

b. The present editor does not know anything of the occurrence of subjective light in his case

c. The fact of great intellectual illumination seems clear.

d. His moral elevation was very marked

e. He seems to have had the sense of immortality that belongs to Cosmic Consciousness

f. Specific details of proof are in this case, as they must inevitably often be, largely wanting, but a study of Blake’s life, writings (he is not in a position nor is he competent to judge Blake from his drawings) and death convinces the writer that he was a genuine and even probably a great case.

1.In the fact that Blake soared beyond, and far beyond, men of self consciousness, merely, but could not see or do many things that these saw clearly and could do easily, we see a relationship between him and the great illuminati. For surely the very same thing could be said of all these. In worldly matters they are all, or nearly all, as little children, while in spiritual things they are as gods. Note Balzac contracting enormous debts for want of ordinary business common sense and laboring vainly for years to pay them while in the full exercise of enough genius to equip a regiment of Rothschild’s. Bacon showered upon the human race intellectual and spiritual riches beyond all computation, but with every apparent advantage (position at court, hereditary prestige, influential friends) he labors in vain for years for position in the self conscious sphere, and after getting it cannot hold it. Buddha, Jesus, Paul, Las Casas, Yepes, Böhme and Whitman were wise: They saw that the things of the Cosmic Sense were enough, and they simply put by the things of self consciousness, but had they tried for these the chances are they would have failed to obtain them.

2.Blake, too, found the world of the Cosmic Sense enough, and wisely did not waste time and energy seeking for the so called goods and riches of the self conscious life.

3.These men are independent of education, and most of them – like Blake himself – think it useless or worse. Blake says of it: “There is no use in education: I hold it to be wrong. It is the great sin; it is eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. This was the fault of Plato. He knew of nothing but the virtues and vices, and good and evil. There is nothing in all that. Everything is good in God’s eyes”. This reminds us of what Hawley said of Bacon: “He had not his knowledge from books, but from some grounds within himself”, and of Whitman’s “You shall no longer feed on the specters in books”.

4.This is the declaration of each possessor of the Cosmic Sense. It is not I, the visible man who speaks, but (as Jesus says) “As the Father hath said unto me so I speak”; or as

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