Cosmic Consciousness

In certain forms of poetic fervor, religious exaltation, and mystic experience, these flashes come and are then recorded by the individual experiencing them, the record, however, usually being given in the terms of the philosophy, religion, or general belief of the person experiencing the contact or illumination, the person not fully realizing from just what source the flash of truth has come.

In recent years many of these experiences have been classified and included in works of writers, under the general name of cosmic consciousness.

In most cases the persons having attained these experiences, and those who have recorded them, are of the opinion that the flash of consciousness realized is the highest possible.

But, as wonderful as are these experiences, they are in most cases but flashes of insight of the light of some of the lower sub-planes of the great plane of the demigods, countless higher planes being existent and awaiting the unfoldment of being to experience their light and glory, and beyond all of such there existing the highest plane of all, the plane of the gods, to which all the rest is as but a faint shadow of the reality.

But the student must always remember that these experiences are not the end of all thought on the subject, nor the final word of truth.

As valuable as is this part of the teaching, it must never be mistaken for the highest peak of the mountain of truth.

To those who have experienced the flashes of illumination or the glimpse of the fire of cosmic consciousness, both of which classes of phenomena belong to the plane of the consciousness of the demigods, there has come a realization of the actual oneness of life in the universe and an actual awareness that the universe is animated by one life which is diffused among and permeates every portion of its extent and manifestation.

To such has come an assurance that there is nothing dead in the universe, that every part and portion, individual and collective, is instinct with life.

I think a book which was...

I can't remember its name, by Richard Buck about consciousness, how he had this experience himself of changing consciousness and how he recounts marvelous episodes of other people having this change of consciousness into cosmic consciousness.

I think it was cool.

I'll have to email it to you because it's a very important book.

Jung.

And then we both went into Jung analysis as a result.

So I'd say Modern Man in Search of a Soul by Jung, Cosmic Consciousness by Richard Buck.

I think it was called Cosmic Consciousness.