Omniscism

Omniscism (noun): "The state of complete knowledge and universal experience, encompassing absolute awareness of all existence and reality."

As a philosophical state: Omniscism refers to a hypothetical or metaphysical condition of absolute knowledge or universal experience.

In spiritual contexts: It symbolize the enlightenment or the cosmic awareness.

1. Philosophical Context: The concept of omniscism challenges the very foundation of human epistemology, as our cognitive limitations restrict us from attaining universal knowledge.

2. Spiritual Context: For mystics, achieving omniscism is akin to attaining Nirvana—a state where all barriers of time, space, and self dissolve into unity.

3. Narrative Context: The protagonist’s encounter with the alien race gifted him with a moment of omniscism, where he perceived the entirety of existence in a single, overwhelming instant.