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Title: | Cosmic consciousness |
Authors: | Briffa, Vince |
Keywords: | Chircop, Alfred, 1933-2015 Painters -- Malta Drawing |
Issue Date: | 2023 |
Citation: | Briffa, V, (2023). Cosmic consciousness. Short essay for the exhibition catalogue – In Search of Line, Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti, Malta. |
Abstract: | Nowadays, when one speaks of a cosmic consciousness, one is bound to be exceedingly ridiculed. Since Bucke’s publication at the dawn of the twentieth century, we have foraged through numerous ‘isms’ and ideologies which have challenged the long-standing foundational belief that humans are superior to any other living form around them, at times in a violent, unscrupulous or even stealthy fashion. Although our age of scientific triumphalism leaves little elbow space for the sentience of similarly labelled abstruse beliefs to take root, one cannot simply disregard Bucke’s allusion to philosopher Edward Carpenter’s reference to the sense in which consciousness is cosmic, that is ‘...that it carries a universalising phenomenology, that what it feels like to be in such a state is to have a sense of all-encompassing spaciousness. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/108562 |
Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacMKSDA |
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