Bucke narrated an experience how he and two of his friends...

Bucke narrated an experience how he and two of his friends spent the evening reading Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Browning, and especially Whitman. When they parted at midnight, he had a long drive. His mind, deeply under the influence of the ideas, images and emotions called up by the reading and the talk of the evening, was calm and peaceful. He was in a state of quiet enjoyment. Suddenly, without early warning of any kind, he found himself wrapped around, as it were, by a flame-colored cloud.

For an instant he thought of fire—some sudden conflagration in the great city. The next (instant) he knew that the light was within himself. Then there came upon him a sense of exultation, of immense joyousness, accompanied or immediately followed by an intellectual illumination quite impossible to describe.

Later they called it as a glimpse of cosmic consciousness.[^1] Many Western psychologists, likewise, became keen in studying transcendent experiences and in this way laid the foundation of ‘Transpersonal Psychology’. C.G. Jung, Medard Boss, Gardener, Lois Murphy, Alan Watts, Maslow, Charles Tart and Robert Ornstein are the leading psychologist who promoted the study of transcendence of self, spirit, unitive consciousness, peak experiences, ecstasy and mystic experiences.

They realized that the Western scientific scholars blundered by neglecting this very significant area of human life. Charles Tart, a major investigator of transcendent experiences observed: ‘Western Psychology has dealt very poorly with the spiritual side of man’s nature, choosing either to ignore its existence or to label it pathological. Yet much of the agony of our time stems from a spiritual vacuum.

Our culture, our psychology, has ruled out man’s spiritual nature, but the cost of this attempted suppression is enormous. If we want to find ourselves, our spiritual side, it is imperative for us to look at the psychologies that have dealt with it.’ [^2] Even after acquiring this insight into the significance of spiritualism, the Western philosophers and psychologists have failed in appreciating the true knowledge and information the Holy Qur'an has furnished on human psychology.

Out of a bias against the Qur'anic thought they deny themselves the enlightenment on the secrets of individual as well as collective personality of a people that lead to the real success.