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higher consciousness

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.09 in modern English

Syllables
high-er -con-scious-ness
IPA
30
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

a supposed mode of cognition beyond human self-awareness

noun

the notion of historical progress in the evolution of the human mind

noun

a concept of mystical transcendence of human consciousness, especially in Hinduism-inspired New Age philosophy, Yoga and psychedelic drugs subculture

Example Sentences

Etymology

In 19th century philosophy, used by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (died 1831, höheres Bewußtsein), Petr Yakovlevich Chaadayev (died 1856, высшее сознание; literally, "highest consciousness"). The New Age sense appears in ca. 1970 in the publications of Sri Aurobindo and others (The psychology of the unfoldment of higher consciousness (title), Swami Omkarananda, Divine Light Zentrum, 1970).

Inflected Forms

higher consciousnesses (plural)

Questions

What does higher consciousness mean?
a supposed mode of cognition beyond human self-awareness
Where does higher consciousness come from?
In 19th century philosophy, used by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (died 1831, höheres Bewußtsein), Petr Yakovlevich Chaadayev (died 1856, высшее сознание; literally, "highest consciousness"). The New Age sense appears in ca. 1970 in the publications of Sri Aurobindo and others (The psychology of the unfoldment of higher consciousness (title), Swami Omkarananda, Divine Light Zentrum, 1970).

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