In 1901, Canadian psychiatrist Dr Richard Maurice Bucke published a treatise, Cosmic Consciousness, based upon a survey of experiences among his contemporaries. The treatise had little impact at the time but came to a wider audience about fifty years later. It came to the attention of Pearl Hawkins in 2000, who felt the time had come to bring it up to date and perhaps include a feminine perspective after the more masculine Victorian emphasis of the original.
To this end she conducted a new survey, Survey 2003, and received responses from around the world detailing experiences of various kinds and with differing elements, from people of all ages and both genders.
She examines consciousness from the perspective of twenty-first-century physics and neuroscience, and asks whether consciousness is evolving.
Bucke died in 1902, a year after his treatise was published.
Pearl Hawkins died in 2009.
| Author: | Pearl Hawkins |
| Publication Date: | 2nd June 2014 |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| ISBN: | 978-1-85756-824-0 |
| Price: | £9.95 |
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