Quote from Cosmic Consciousness

Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind

by Richard Maurice Bucke

E. P. Dutton, New York, 1969. 348 pp.

 “Like a flash there is presented to his consciousness a clear conception (a vision) in outline of the meaning and drift of the universe . . . He sees and knows that the cosmos . . . is in fact . . . in very truth a living presence. He sees that instead of men being, as it were, patches of life scattered through an infinite sea of non-living substance, they are in reality specks of relative death in an infinite ocean of life. He sees that the life which is in man is as immortal as God is; that the universe is so built and ordered that without any peradventure all things work together for the good of each and all; that the foundation principle of the world is what we call love, and that the happiness of every individual is in the long run absolutely certain. 

The person who passes through this experience will learn in the few minutes, or even moments, of its continuance more than in months or years of study, and he will learn much that no study ever taught or can teach. Especially does he obtain such a conception of *the whole* . . . Along with moral elevation and intellectual illumination comes what must be called, for want of a better term, a sense of immortality.”  (p. 73)

-- quote submitted by Ken Paul 


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