![]() He explained the three basic stages at the beginning of his famous book, which we remember was subtitled A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind. Johnson, The Imprisoned SplendourĬosmic consciousness and human evolution: Richard Maurice Bucke saw the development of consciousness in strongly evolutionary and developmental terms. Walt Whitman’s first experience of cosmic consciousness: the raw sexual component.Bucke’s great hero: the poet Walt Whitman.(2) From other-worldly mysticism to nature mysticism.(1) From God as Unmoved Mover to God as dynamic source of energy.The great 18th-19th-20th century shift in the western view of God and nature.Bill Wilson: a Catholic God instead of Bucke’s pantheism.Chapter 14 Panentheism, Nature Mysticism, and Walt Whitman Pantheism or panentheism: God as the life and order of the universe.Cosmic consciousness: transhumanization and discovering the divine within ourselves.Cosmic consciousness and the charismatic messenger: Father Dowling and Bill W.Bill Wilson’s use of these ideas: losing the fear of death.Cosmic consciousness: seven characteristics.
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