Religious Studies

Table of Contents - 1983 - Volume 19, Issue 02  

Articles

A Science of Pure Consciousness?

R. L. Franklina1

a1 Professor of Philosophy, University of New England

I have come to believe that the whole framework of our current thought is about to begin a long and radical transformation, based on what I shall call a new science of pure consciousness. The content of most of the matters to be considered by this science have hitherto been the concern of some areas of religion, particularly what in our culture we call ‘mysticism’; but the treatment of it would legitimately be called scientific. Thus one aspect of the transformation would be to overcome that apparent conflict between ‘science’ and ‘religion’, which has been so characteristic of our culture over the last few centuries.