Cosmic Consciousness Revisited: The Modern Origins and Development of a Western Spiritual Psychology

Combining scholarship and spiritual depth, May portrays the develop. of the modern shift in the paradigm of human consciousness. He writes of the importance of the work of Richard Bucke, the father of Western Spiritual psychology, and the author of the landmark book, Cosmic Consciousness. He then proceeds to trace the subsequent develop. of the emerging spiritual and transpersonal psychologies and relates their evolution to the great spiritual traditions as well as to the future direction of human spiritual and psychological evolution. Of interest to all who seek to gain a contemporary and forward looking understanding of the spiritual nature of human existence.