![]() ![]() Moores said that Bucke's cosmic consciousness is an interconnected way of seeing things "which is more of an intuitive knowing than it is a factual understanding". This consciousness shows the cosmos to consist not of dead matter governed by unconscious, rigid, and unintending law it shows it on the contrary as entirely immaterial, entirely spiritual and entirely alive it shows that death is an absurdity, that everyone and everything has eternal life it shows that the universe is God and that God is the universe, and that no evil ever did or ever will enter into it a great deal of this is, of course, from the point of view of self consciousness, absurd it is nevertheless undoubtedly true. Cosmic consciousness, which is "a higher form of consciousness than that possessed by the ordinary man".Self-consciousness, possessed by mankind, encompassing thought, reason, and imagination. ![]() Simple consciousness, possessed by both animals and mankind.In Cosmic Consciousness, Bucke stated that he discerned three forms, or degrees, of consciousness:
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