Level of Consciousness
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Level of Consciousness
The phrase Levels of Consciousness refers to different phenomenological experiences of Consciousness, as experienced by a Physical Unit. "Higher states" of Consciousness are associated with stronger and more permanent connection, while lower states are associated with disconnection and sleep.
Related Terms
Systems
Notes
The Upanishads
The Upanishads delineate three ordinary states of consciousness: waking, dreaming, and dreamless sleep. Each is real, but each has a higher order of reality. For beyond these three, the Upanishads say, is the unitive state, called simply “the fourth”: turiya.[fn]MacPhail, Jean C. “A History of Consciousness in Vedanta: Footprints of the Atman,” 2022. https://www.academia.edu/83411689.[/fn] Entering this state is similar to waking up out of dream sleep: the individual passes from a lower level of reality to a higher one. The sages called the dream of waking life - the dream of separate, merely physical existence – by a suggestive name, maya. In general use the word meant a kind of magic, the power of a god or sorcerer to make a thing appear to be something else. In the Gita, maya becomes the creative power of the Godhead, the primal creative energy that makes unity appear as the world of innumerable separate things with “name and form.”[1]
Scheme One
Presence of a connection
Disconnected Consciousness (low CQ connection, inattention to reality, guilt, shame, self, other directed hatred, isolation even in groups, addictions, anxieties, existential anxieties, lack of compassion,
Pathological Consciousness (almost total disconnection)
Scheme Two
By CQ (0 to 100) at any given moment. Average daily CQ
Scheme Three
Christ Consciousness / Krishna Consciousness, God Consciousness
Normal Consciousness Christ / Krishna Consciousness
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Footnotes
- ↑ Easwaran, Eknath, trans. The Upanishads: Introduced and Translated by Eknath Easwaran. Berkeley, California: Nilgiri Press, 1987. p. 28.