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An awareness of the universal mind and one's unity with it; a term coined by Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke, a twentieth century psychiatrist, in a 1901 book by the same name. Dr. Bucke defines cosmic consciousness as a form of enlightment, such as that experienced by Gautama Buddha. Bucke also believed that his friend, Walt Whitman, had achieved this enlightenment level. Whitman described cosmic consciousness as "ineffable light, light rare, untellable, light beyond all signs, descriptions and languages."
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