Emerson quote

"I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God."

Here Emerson describes his experience as the transparent eyeball. He is able to see everything as he is part of the "Universal Being", or God. This reminds me a lot of how in Divinity School Address he tells everyone they can be Jesus or even God. This is his experience as being God that he formulates his logic in Divinity School Address around. Also in Nature he says anyone can have this experience if they can get past knowing they are perceiving something. This is where the whole transparent eyeball comes into play because he can see everything without knowing he is seeing it. This wild experience is what he bases his views on life on, so it is central to all his ideas after his spiritual crisis. I actually think his spiritual crisis led up to him having this experience because if he still believed in his religion no sort of idea like this would have come to him. Emerson would not have been out in nature and had this experience that shaped his new philosophy if his old one was still intact.