For the last four centuries, science has tried to account for
everything in terms of atoms and molecules and the physical laws
they adhere to. Recently, this effort was extended to try to
include the inner world of human beings. Gary Lachman argues that
this view of consciousness is misguided and unfounded. He points to
another approach to the study and exploration of consciousness that
erupted into public awareness in the late 1800s. In this "secret
history of consciousness, " consciousness is seen not as a result
of neurons and molecules, but as responsible for them; meaning is
not imported from the outer world, but rather creates it. In this
view, consciousness is a living, evolving presence whose
development can be traced through different historical periods, and
which evolves along a path to a broader, more expansive state. What
that consciousness may be like and how it may be achieved is a
major concern of this book.
Lachman concentrates on the period since the late 1800s, when
Madame Blavatsky first brought the secret history out into the
open. As this history unfolds, we encounter the ideas of many
modern thinkers, from esotericists like P. D. Ouspensky, Rudolf
Steiner, and Colin Wilson to more mainstream philosophers like
Henri Bergson, William James, Owen Barfield and the psychologist
Andreas Mavromatis. Two little known but important thinkers play a
major role in his synthesis -- Jurij Moskvitin, who showed how our
consciousness relates to the mechanisms of perception and to the
external world, and Jean Gebser, who presented perhaps the most
impressive case for the evolution of consciousness.
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