Richard Maurice Bucke
Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke, M.D. (McGill University, 1862) was a psychiatrist, adventurer, and mystic, whose work on what he called "cosmic consciousness" (borrowing from the poet Edward Carpenter) came to form part of the underpinning of transpersonal psychology. He was among the founders of the Medical School of the University of Western Ontario, and was elected to the English Literature Section of the Royal Society of Canada in 1882.
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Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind
by Richard Maurice Bucke
Rating: 3.7 ⭐
This is an attempted scientific study of illuminated individuals. Bucke provides three dozen very consistent examples of 'cosmic consciousness.' Some of these are the usual suspects, and others are contemporary case-histories which Bucke collected. Bucke proposed that these enlightened figures are evolutionary jumps, the precedecessor of a more advanced Maurice Bucke (18 March 1837 – 19 February 1