higher consciousness

noun3

1. •
   a supposed mode of cognition beyond human self-awareness

   • But that the self-consciousness may be the modification of a higher form of being, perhaps of a higher consciousness, and this again of a yet higher, and so on in an infinite regressus — 1817
2. •
   a concept of mystical transcendence of human consciousness, especially in Hinduism-inspired New Age philosophy, Yoga and psychedelic drugs subculture
3. •
   the notion of historical progress in the evolution of the human mind