COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS

Richard Maurice Bucke (18 March 1837 – 19 February 1902), often called Maurice Bucke, was a prominent Canadian psychiatrist in the late 19th century.

Bucke's magnum opus was his book Cosmic Consciousness, which is a compilation of various theories rather than strictly a simple record of his original mystical experience.

Cosmic Consciousness was a book which he researched and wrote over a period of many years. It was published in 1901 and has been reprinted several times since then. In it, Bucke describes his own experience, the experiences of contemporaries (most notably Walt Whitman), and the experiences of historical figures, including Jesus, Saint Paul, Muhammad, Plotinus, Dante, Francis Bacon, William Blake, Buddha, and Ramakrishna.

Bucke developed a theory that posited three stages in the development of consciousness:

• the simple consciousness of animals
• the self-consciousness of the mass of humanity (encompassing reason, imagination, and foresight)
• cosmic consciousness — an emerging faculty which is the next stage of human development

Included in this Cosmic Consciousness app:

Part I.
◈ First Words

Part II. Evolution and Devolution
◈ Chapter 1. To Self Consciousness
◈ Chapter 2. On the Plane of Self Consciousness
◈ Chapter 3. Devolution

Part III. From Self to Cosmic Consciousness

Part IV. Instances of Cosmic Consciousness
◈ Chapter 1. Gautama the Buddha
◈ Chapter 2. Jesus the Christ
◈ Chapter 3. Paul
◈ Chapter 4. Plotinus
◈ Chapter 5. Mohammed
◈ Chapter 6. Dante
◈ Chapter 7. Bartolomé Las Casas
◈ Chapter 8. John Yepes (Called St. John of the Cross)
◈ Chapter 9. Francis Bacon
◈ Chapter 10. Jacob Behmen
◈ Chapter 11. William Blake
◈ Chapter 12. Honoré de Balzac
◈ Chapter 13. Walt Whitman
◈ Chapter 14. Edward Carpenter

Part V. Additional
◈ Chapter 1. The Twilight
◈ Chapter 2. Moses
◈ Chapter 3. Gideon, Surnamed Jerubbaal
◈ Chapter 4. Isaiah
◈ Chapter 5. The Case of Lî R
◈ Chapter 6. Socrates
◈ Chapter 7. Roger Bacon
◈ Chapter 8. Blaise Pascal
◈ Chapter 9. Benedict Spinoza
◈ Chapter 10. Colonel James Gardiner
◈ Chapter 11. Swedenborg
◈Chapter 12. William Wordsworth
◈ Chapter 13. Charles G. Finney
◈ Chapter 14. Alexander Pushkin
◈ Chapter 15. Ralph Waldo Emerson
◈ Chapter 16. Alfred Tennyson
◈ Chapter 17. J. B. B.
◈ Chapter 18. Henry David Thoreau
◈ Chapter 19. J. B.
◈ Chapter 20. C. P.
◈ Chapter 21. The Case of H. B. in His Own Words
◈ Chapter 22. R. P. S.
◈ Chapter 23. E. T.
◈ Chapter 24. Case of Ramakrishna Paramahansa
◈ Chapter 25. Case of J. H. J.
◈ Chapter 26. T. S. R.
◈ Chapter 27. W. H. W.
◈ Chapter 28. Richard Jefferies
◈ Chapter 29. Case of C. M. C. in Her Own Words
◈ Chapter 30. The Case of M. C. L. in His Own Words
◈ Chapter 31. Case of J. W. W., Largely in His Own Words
◈ Chapter 32. Case of J. William Lloyd, in His Own Words
◈ Chapter 33. Horace Traubel
◈ Chapter 34. The Case of Paul Tyner, in His Own Words
◈ Chapter 35. The Case of C. Y. E., in Her Own Words
◈ Chapter 36. Case of A. J. S.

Part VI. Last Words

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