Overview
Cosmic Awareness Communications (CAC), active from the early 1970s onward, was a channeling group that published the Revelations of Awareness newsletters. These texts claimed to transmit wisdom from a source identified only as "This Awareness". The group framed this entity not as an individual personality but as a universal consciousness, the same guiding intelligence said to have spoken through prophets and teachers across history. Unlike other channeling movements, the language avoided elaborate names or mythic personae, emphasizing the immediacy of direct awareness itself.
Identity
The voice of "This Awareness" never took on a personal title or anthropomorphic form. Instead, it presented itself as an eternal field of consciousness, an impersonal intelligence that could be accessed by trained channelers. CAC stressed that it was not worshipping a god but tuning into a universal current of truth. The lack of a fixed name was intentional: it reinforced the idea that awareness itself—timeless, boundaryless—was the true teacher.
Gnostic Parallels
Within the rhetoric of "This Awareness," echoes of Gnostic cosmology appear. The emphasis on hidden knowledge, direct contact with a higher field, and liberation from deceptive systems resonates with the idea of gnosis: truth as a lived, inward experience rather than institutional doctrine. The impersonal and universal framing also recalls the Gnostic contrast between the false demiurge and the unnameable Source beyond all forms.
Implications
The emergence of Cosmic Awareness Communications highlights how the 1970s served as a crucible for new expressions of spiritual contact. In a period marked by disillusionment with traditional religion and authority, CAC offered an alternate path: access to a timeless intelligence that required no priesthood, only receptivity. The entity’s refusal to identify with any personality mirrored this rejection of hierarchy.
At the same time, CAC demonstrates how channeling movements created durable communities around a shared vocabulary of contact. By grounding their revelations in the authority of “This Awareness,” adherents felt they were part of a lineage of universal truth. Whether viewed as psychological, sociological, or metaphysical, the movement shows how naming—or not naming—the source of intelligence shaped both belief and belonging.