Kellie McConnell’s Reviews > Cosmic Conciousness > Status Update

The first thing each person asks himself upon experiencing the new sense is: Does what I see and feel represent reality or am I suffering from a delusion? The fact that the new experience seems even more real than the old teachings of simple and self consciousness does not at first fully reassure him, because he probably knows that delusions, when present, possess the mind as firmly as facts do.

It seems that in every, or nearly every, man who enters cosmic consciousness apprehension is at first more or less excited, the person doubting whether the new sense may not be a symptom of form of insanity.

“It is well known that the distinction of color is of late date; that Xenophanes knew of three colors of the rainbow only—purple, red and yellow; that even Aristotle spoke of the tri colored rainbow; and that Democritus knew of no more than four colors—black, white, red, and yellow.”