Cosmic

In 1872, Richard Maurice Bucke had the most important experience of his life — a fleeting mystical experience that he said consisted of a few moments of cosmic consciousness.

"He later described the characteristics and effects:

its sudden appearance
a subjective experience of light ("inner light")
moral elevation
intellectual illumination
a sense of immortality
loss of a fear of death
loss of a sense of sin

Bucke's personal experience of the inner state had yet another attribute: the vivid sense of the universe as a living presence, rather than as basically lifeless, inert matter...

"the universe is so built and ordered that without any peradventure all things work together for the good of each and all, that the foundation principle of the world is what we call love and that the happiness of every one is in the long run absolutely certain...

Cosmic Consciousness … is a higher form of consciousness than that possessed by the ordinary man. This last is called Self Consciousness and is that faculty upon which rests all of our life (both subjective and objective) which is not common to us and the higher animals, except that small part of it which is derived from the few individuals who have had the higher consciousness above named...

The prime characteristic of cosmic consciousness is, as its name implies, a consciousness of the cosmos, that is, of the life and order of the universe … Along with the consciousness of the cosmos there occurs an intellectual enlightenment or illumination which alone would place the individual on a new plane of existence — would make him almost a member of a new species. To this is added a state of moral exaltation, an indescribable feeling of elevation, elation and joyousness, and a quickening of the moral sense, which is fully as striking and more important both to the individual and to the race than is the enhanced intellectual power. With these come, what may be called, a sense of immortality, a consciousness of eternal life, not a conviction that he shall have this, but the consciousness that he has it already. ” ~ Wikipedia