Beyond Cosmopsychism and the Great I Am: How the World Might be Grounded in Universal ‘Advaitic’ Consciousness

Miri Albahari

doi:10.4324/9781315717708-11

Beyond Cosmopsychism and the Great I Am: How the World Might be Grounded in Universal ‘Advaitic’ Consciousness

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Cosmopsychism typically casts the entire cosmos as a conscious subject that in turn grounds the consciousness of subjects such as ourselves. This chapter argues that there are serious troubles for cosmopsychism that stem from its prevailing assumption that the cosmos is a subject. It then offers a framework for thinking about how the world could be grounded in a universal consciousness which, following Advaita Vedanta and the ‘Perennial Philosophy’, is not structured by subject or object.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Routledge Handbook of Panpsychism
Editors	William Seager
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Routledge
Chapter	11
Pages	119-130
Number of pages	12
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	9781315717708
ISBN (Print)	9781138817135
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315717708-11
Publication status	Published - 2 Dec 2019

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Beyond Cosmopsychism and the Great I Am: How the World Might be Grounded in Universal ‘Advaitic’ Consciousness

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