Meaning of higher consciousness | Babel Free

Definitions

1. a supposed mode of cognition beyond human self-awareness
2. the notion of historical progress in the evolution of the human mind
3. a concept of mystical transcendence of human consciousness, especially in Hinduism-inspired New Age philosophy, Yoga and psychedelic drugs subculture
   New-Age

Examples

“But that the self-consciousness may be the modification of a higher form of being, perhaps of a higher consciousness, and this again of a yet higher, and so on in an infinite regressus”

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