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Stapledon, Olaf - Starmaker - Common consciousness
Identifier
020304
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
Olaf Stapledon – Star Maker
Constellation after constellation, the whole galaxy became visibly alive with myriads of worlds. Each world peopled with its unique multitudinous race of sensitive intelligences united in true community was itself a living thing possessed of a common spirit. And each system of many populous orbits was itself a communal being. And the whole galaxy knit in a single telepathic mesh, was a single intelligent and ardent being, the common spirit, the “I” of all its countless diverse and ephemeral individuals