This classic study in the evolution of the human mind is a pioneering work as valuable today as when it was first published in 1901. At that time, it was enthusiastically acclaimed by both William James and P. D. Ouspensky. It has long been accepted as a landmark in the field of mysticism. Both Dr. Walter and Lao Russell recommended this book as a supplemental teaching to their own respective writings.
According to Bucke, "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."
According to Bucke, "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."
Concerning the above video, it should be noted that Dr. Walter Russell did not have a near death experience at age seven, rather a classical 'illumination' experience which he described in the Home Study Course, Unit Two, "The Story of My Illumining."
"The first great inkling of the grandeur to come was in May of 1878, when I was seven. I had strange premonitions of it for months — perhaps even for a year — but the glory of it when it did happen was less mystifying and more understandable than the premonitions which always left me deeply wondering." ~Home Study Course, Third Edition
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"The first great inkling of the grandeur to come was in May of 1878, when I was seven. I had strange premonitions of it for months — perhaps even for a year — but the glory of it when it did happen was less mystifying and more understandable than the premonitions which always left me deeply wondering." ~Home Study Course, Third Edition
Click here for the Print Edition of the Home Study Course, Third Edition.
Click here for the e-Course version of the Home Study Course, Third Edition.
