Ordinary Consciousness
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Ordinary Consciousness is a term used Edward Carpenter and others to refer to what, on the LP we refer to as Normal Consciousnss[1]
Syncretic Terms
Normal Consciousness > Dullness, Ordinary Consciousness, Paramount Reality, Usual Consciousness
Notes
According to Carpenter[2], ordinary consciousness is the second of three stages of consciousness.
- Simple Consciousness (knower, knowledge and thing known undifferentiated)
- Ordinary Consciousness (differentiation of knower, knowledge, and thing known)
- Consciousness of self
- Consciousness of object
- Cosmic Consciousness (realization of fundamental unity and oneness of creation)
- a superior, "perfect" form of consciousness,
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