An insight
The sudden solution of a difficult problem
Seeing one’s life in perspective and having a clear sense of purpose
A transfigured vision of external reality
The apprehension of some truth concerning the nature of the universe
A sense of unity with all beings and of sharing everyone’s destiny
Illumination
An extraordinary inner silence
Waves of luminous joy
Liberation
Cosmic humor
A deep feeling of gratefulness
An exhilarating sense of dance
Resonating with the essence of beings and things we come in contact with
Loving all persons in one person
Feeling oneself to be the channel for a wider, stronger force to flow through
Ecstasy
An intimation of profound mystery and wonder
The delight of beauty
Creative inspiration
A sense of boundless compassion
Transcendence of time and space
Superconscious material originates from the dynamic, creative force of the inner, transpersonal Higher Self that is in touch with all areas of the inner regions of the psyche.
No permanent state of perfection exists. Sometimes these superconscious experiences occur suddenly and rapidly; at other times they unfold more gradually and slowly over time (Miller, & C’de Baca, 2001). Whatever their form or rhythm of unfolding, these experiences like the growth and change they promote in the human personality, are not constant or permanent states of being that occur once and for all and are enjoyed permanently. While we are alive, there is no state of perfection to be reached where we are now beyond change, beyond growth, beyond further development, beyond further creativity. As Assagioli put it: “Life is movement, and the superconscious realms are in continuous renewal. In this adventure we move from revelation to revelation, from joy to joy. I hope you do not reach any ‘stable state.’ A ‘stable state’ is death” (quoted in Ferrucci, 1982, p. 130).
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Superconscious experiences represent evidence about the nature of human consciousness. Superconscious experiences are psychological facts reported for centuries by quite normal persons that represent their own kind of evidence about the nature of human consciousness. Maurice Bucke (1969) in his 1901 book, Cosmic Consciousness saw superconscious experiences as representing bridges in the next step of our human evolution. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s (1964) book The Future of Man recognized such experiences as indications of humanity’s next evolution of consciousness and “a salvation of the species” - signaling a movement toward a “critical point of speciation” and bringing “a new break-through and a re-birth, this time outside Time and Space” that parallels humanity’s biological evolution (p. 302). At the individual level, this manifests as an expansion of awareness
into realms that they experience as intrinsically valuable, that have a dimension of universality, that evoke mystery and wonder, and that possess a revelatory, healing, and transforming power. Superconscious experiences are subjectively felt as a step in personal evolution, as a wonderful unfolding of what was previously existent only in a potential state. (Ferrucci, 1982, p. 132)
However they may be interpreted, superconscious, transpersonal experiences are at the very least indications that human beings possess a highly sophisticated network of inner communication between conscious and unconscious portions of the self.
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