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

Bucke's "cosmic consciousness" is an interconnected way of seeing things, "which is more of an intuitive knowing than it is a factual understanding". According to Bucke,

This consciousness shows the cosmos to consist not of dead matter governed by unconscious, rigid, and unintended 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.