Cosmic consciousness and human excellence
Subtitle: implications for global ethics
By: edited by Mahmoud Masaeli and Rico Sneller
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9781527527164; 9781527511491
Subjects: Compassion; Philosophy; Consciousness; Ethics; Philosophie; Conscience; Morale; Ethics (philosophy); FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS; Interpersonal Relations; Ethik; Kosmisches Bewusstsein; Psychologie; Religion; Selbstbewusstsein
Description: Cosmoconsciousness, or cosmic consciousness, is a term used to characterize a transcendence of the limits of self-consciousness. As an ultra-state of illumination of the mind, the roots of the conception are embodied in the quest for a spiritual connection with multi-dimensional cosmos. This quest searches for spiritual development as a pathway to human excellence, and can be associated with the mystics of ancient wisdom, as well as contemporary psycho-spiritual analysts. After its emergence in the late 19th century, cosmic consciousness rapidly became a source of inspiration for transpersonal.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Cosmic consciousness in the modern time. Chapter one. Cosmo-consciousness : introduction / Rico Sneller and Mahmoud Masaeli; title: Chapter two. Richard Maurice Bucke and the modern study of cosmic consciousness / Ulisses Schlosser; title: Chapter three. Emanuel Swedenborg : a human cosmology / John Poynton; title: Chapter four. Why was Pictures excluded from Leaves of grass? On the extended self in Whitman's poetic project / German Bula; title: Chapter five. Walter Russell and the cosmogony of consciousness / Constanza Cárdenas Trejos and Paul Dávila Mateus; title: Chapter six. Cosmic consciousness and nature from a phenomenological viewpoint / Gérald Hess; title: Chapter seven. In celebration of trees / Richard Berengarten; title: Part II: Between transcendence and reality. Chapter eight. The birth of tragedy in Christianity and the tragic sense of law / Timo Slootweg; title: Chapter nine. Cosmic consciousness in kabbalistic Judaism / Rico Sneller; title: Chapter ten. Return to the heart of Christ consciousness : Catholic thought on Islamic terrorism and the road towards interfaith dialogue / Marco Ceccarelli; title: Chapter eleven. Plotinus and the problem of the political : on the tension between becoming the one and being with others / Samuel Harrington; title: Chapter twelve. Fourfold ecstasy, leading to cosmic consciousness : Marsilio Ficino's comments on a Platonic theme / Rijk Schipper; title: Chapter thirteen. 'Symbolic healing; title: C.G. Jung' for cosmic consciousness and human excellence / Barbara Helen Miller; title: Part III: Cosmic consciousness and global ethics. Chapter fourteen. Cosmic consciousness and the prospect of a global humanistic pedagogy : Saint Augustine's heritage / Anthony Ikechukwu Kanu; title: Chapter fifteen. African hermeneutics of illuminating consciousness : the intercultural problem of language and hermeneutics / Stanley Uche Anozie; title: Chapter sixteen. The view of the future seen from the past for human excellence; title: the Colombian case : stellar history / Robert Ojeda Perez and Maria Isabel Zapata; title: Chapter seventeen. Cosmic dynamism and the principle of self-regulation / Ann Van Sevenant.