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holiness of existence; sensing the reality of absolute truth; experiencing profound reverence, compassion and selfless love for all people; or realizing a profound, unshakable, eternal peace and bliss. It may include a unitive experience of a boundless relationship with all that is. It has been spoken of as a peak experience, samadhi, satori, an oceanic oneness with all.
12) Universal Consciousness—conscious consciousness without limitation. “The subject-object dichotomy is transcended and an omnidirectional experience of oneness comes into being that unifies all of the other forms of consciousness.”5 It is omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience—boundless love, infinite, eternal, absolute consciousness.
Notes
1. Kenneth R. Pelletier, Ph.D., Toward a Science of Consciousness (New York: Dell Publishing Company, 1978), p. 241.
2. JackR.Strange,“ASearchfortheSourcesoftheStreamofConsciousness,”The Stream of Consciousness, ed. Kenneth S. Pope and Jerome L. Singer (New York: Plenum Press, 1978), p. 9.
3. Reflectingthegrowingrespectinmodernscientificthoughtfortheimportanceof the Eastern view of consciousness, a formidable report originally issued by Stan- ford Research Institute proposes a melding of Eastern and Western approaches. Produced by the staff of and consultants to The Center for the Study of Social Policy, Changing Images of Man* was authored by such notable thinkers as renowned mythologist, Joseph Campbell, and Willis Harman, senior social scien- tist at SRI International and President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, among others. The report states:
The time is clearly ripe for a new vision, and it is natural to wonder if it . . . will be found in an “epistemology of the self,” such as held sway in the East . . . . This is not to suggest that modern science would or should adopt totally all the Eastern notions of consciousness, but rather that they might be fruitfully adopted and synthesized with traditional Western scientific methods to produce the next stage in man’s evolutionary advance.
*O.W. Markley, ed., et al., Changing images of Man, Systems Science and World Order Library—Pergamon International Library (Oxford, England: Pergamon Press, 1982), p. 105.
4. RussellTargandKeithHarary,TheMindRace(NewYork:VillardBooks,1984), p. 53.
5. JohnR.Battista,“TheScienceofConsciousness,”TheStreamofConsciousness,ed. Kenneth S. Pope and Jerome L. Singer (New York: Plenum Press, 1978), p. 61.