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higher consciousnesses

higher consciousnesses is the plural of higher consciousness.

Meaning of higher consciousness

Noun

higher consciousness (plural higher consciousnesses)

  1. (cognitive theory) a supposed mode of cognition beyond human self-awareness
    • 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 regressus1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, chapter 12, in Biographia Literaria
  2. the notion of historical progress in the evolution of the human mind
  3. (New-Age) a concept of mystical transcendence of human consciousness, especially in Hinduism-inspired New Age philosophy, Yoga and psychedelic drugs subculture

Questions about higher consciousnesses

What is higher consciousnesses the plural of?
Higher consciousnesses is the plural of higher consciousness.

Words near higher consciousnesses in the dictionary

  1. higher being
  2. higher beings
  3. Higher Bockhampton
  4. Higher Buxton
  5. higher consciousness
  6. higher consciousnesses
  7. higher criticism
  8. higher education
  9. higher functioning
  10. higher grade
  11. Higher Greenway

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