Unless the painful lessons of life
consciousness, its pattern of thought,
humility comes the capacity to laugh at
which we deal ourselves are thus
perception, feeling and memory , is theoneself and increasingly be less the
transformed, through humility , into
consequence of entrainment of the Objectively , it can be seen that
thoughts victim of the mind and more its master . gateways to growth and development,
attractor ener gy field by which it is
really belong to the consciousness of the
From thinking that we "are" our minds,
they are wasted. dominated. It is well to remember that
world; the individual mind merely
we begin to see that we have minds, and
this domination is volitional. It is not
processes them in new combinations and
W e witness, we observe, we record
that it is the mind that has thoughts,
imposed, but is the outcome of one's own
permutations. What seem to be truly
apparent processions of experiences. But
beliefs, feelings and opinions. Eventually
choices, beliefs and goals. original thoughts appear only through theeven in awareness itself nothing actually
we may arrive at the insight that all our
happens. A wareness merely registers
By consensus we synchronize with a
medium of genius and are invariably felt
thoughts are merely borrowed from the
what is being experienced; it has no
field pattern which implies specific styles
by their authors to be found or given, not
great database of consciousness and were
ef fect on it. A wareness is the all-
of processing and influences all our (203)
created. It may be the case that we are
never really our own. Prevailing thought
encompassing attractor field of unlimited
decisions according to its accompanying
each unique, as no two snowflakes are
systems are received, absorbed, identified
power identical with life itself. And there
set of values and meanings. What
alike; however , we are still lust
with, and, in due time, replaced by newis nothing the mind believes that is not
appears an important and exciting piece
snowflakes. ideas that have become fashionable with
fallacious at a higher level of awareness. of information from the perspective of
W e all inherit the human condition of
us. As we place less value on such
one level might be boring or even
mind in our unasked-for birth. T o
The mind identifies with its content. It
passing notions, they lose their capacity
repulsive at another level; truth is transcend the limitations of mind, it is
takes credit and blame for what it
to dominate us, and we experience
subjective. That can be frightening. The
necessary to dethrone it from its tyranny
receives, for it would be humbling to the
progressive freedom of, as well as from,
current elevation o£ science to the status
as sole arbiter of (204) reality . The vain
mind's vanity to admit that the only thingthe mind. This in turn ripens into a new
of infallible oracle is an expression of our
mind confers its imprimatur of
it is doing is experiencing, and, in fact,
source of pleasure; fittingly , the pleasure
insecure compulsion to feel there is some
authenticity on the movie of life it
only experiencing experiencing. The of existence itself matures as one
ascends kind of a measurable, universally happens to view; its very
nature is to mind does not even experience the world,
the scale of consciousness. predictable objective world "out there"
convince us that its unique view of
but only sensory reports of it. Even
21. THE STUDY OF PURE
upon which we can rely . experience is the genuine article. Each
brilliant thoughts and deepest feelings are
(205) only experience; ultimately , we have
CONSCIOUSNESS
But in transcending the emotional individual secretly feels that his
but one function: to experience
distortions of perception, science itselfexperience of the world alone is accurate. V arious ASPECTS OF
experience. (Gee, sounds like Ramtha. creates yet another conceptual distortion,
In our discussion of the levels of
CONSCIOUSNESS have been the
T racy)
due to the limitation of its parameters. consciousness, we noted that one of the
subject of traditional philosophy , and the
Science must o£ necessity remove data
downsides of Pride is denial. Every mind
The major limitation of consciousness is
expressions of consciousness as mind or
from context in order to study it, but in
engages in denial in order to protect its
its innocence. Consciousness is gullible;
emotion have been the subjects of the
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A>B>C observed as the phenomenal
the end it is only the context which gives"correctness." This begets the fixity and
it believes everything it hears. world. the data its whole significance or value. resistance to change which prevents the
Consciousness is like hardware that will
This schema provides a model for a
The eventual discovery arrived at by
average consciousness from advancing
play back any software put into it. W e
better understanding of the nature of
advanced theoretical physics can be
much more than five points in a lifetime. never lose the innocence of our own
causality , which occurs on the level of
reached from any or ganized field of
Great leaps in level of consciousness are
consciousness; it persists, naive and
the film, not the level of the screen. human knowledge: the more detailed
always preceded by surrender of the
trusting, like an impressionable child. ItsBecause the world routinely applies its
one's analysis of the structure of "out
illusion that "I know ." Frequently , the
only guardian is a discerning awareness
ef forts to the screen of life at the level of
there," the more one discovers that what
only way one can reach this willingness
that scrutinizes the incoming program. A>B>C, these endeavors are inef fectual
one is examining is, in fact, the nature of
to change is when one "hits bottom" by
Cover the ages it has been noted that
and costly . Causality stems from the
the intricate processes of consciousness
running out a course of action to its end
merely observing the mind tends to
attractor patterns of levels of ener gy , the
in here. There is nothing "out there" other
in the defeat of a futile belief system. increase one's level of consciousness. 3 A
ABCs of the configurations imprinted on
than consciousness itself. The habitualLight cannot enter a closed box; the
mind which is being watched becomes
the film of mind, illuminated by tendency to believe otherwise is our
upside of catastrophe can be an opening
more humble and begins to relinquish its
consciousness. fundamental illusion, a vanity of the
to a higher level of awareness. If life is
claims to omniscience. A growth in
human mind, which tends always to view
viewed as a teacher , it then becomes just
The nature of the stream of
awareness can then take place. W ith
its transitory subject as "mine." that. Unless the painful lessons of life
consciousness, its pattern of thought,
humility comes the capacity to laugh at
which we deal ourselves are thus
perception, feeling and memory , is the
oneself and increasingly be less the
transformed, through humility , intoconsequence of entrainment of the Objectively , it can be seen that
thoughts victim of the mind and more its master . gateways to growth and development,
attractor ener gy field by which it is
really belong to the consciousness of the
From thinking that we "are" our minds,
they are wasted. dominated. It is well to remember that
world; the individual mind merely
we begin to see that we have minds, and
this domination is volitional. It is not
processes them in new combinations and
W e witness, we observe, we record
that it is the mind that has thoughts,
imposed, but is the outcome of one's own
permutations. What seem to be truly
apparent processions of experiences. But
beliefs, feelings and opinions. Eventually
choices, beliefs and goals. original thoughts appear only through the
even in awareness itself nothing actually
we may arrive at the insight that all ourhappens. A wareness merely registers
By consensus we synchronize with a
medium of genius and are invariably felt
thoughts are merely borrowed from the
what is being experienced; it has no
field pattern which implies specific styles
by their authors to be found or given, not
great database of consciousness and were
ef fect on it. A wareness is the all-
of processing and influences all our (203)
created. It may be the case that we are
never really our own. Prevailing thought
encompassing attractor field of unlimited
decisions according to its accompanying
each unique, as no two snowflakes are
systems are received, absorbed, identified
power identical with life itself. And there
set of values and meanings. What
alike; however , we are still lust
with, and, in due time, replaced by new
is nothing the mind believes that is not
appears an important and exciting piecesnowflakes. ideas that have become fashionable with
fallacious at a higher level of awareness. of information from the perspective of
W e all inherit the human condition of
us. As we place less value on such
one level might be boring or even
mind in our unasked-for birth. T o
The mind identifies with its content. It
passing notions, they lose their capacity
repulsive at another level; truth is transcend the limitations of mind, it is
takes credit and blame for what it
to dominate us, and we experience
subjective. That can be frightening. The
necessary to dethrone it from its tyranny
receives, for it would be humbling to the
progressive freedom of, as well as from,
current elevation o£ science to the status
as sole arbiter of (204) reality . The vain
mind's vanity to admit that the only thing
the mind. This in turn ripens into a new
of infallible oracle is an expression of ourmind confers its imprimatur of
it is doing is experiencing, and, in fact,
source of pleasure; fittingly , the pleasure
insecure compulsion to feel there is some
authenticity on the movie of life it
only experiencing experiencing. The of existence itself matures as one
ascends kind of a measurable, universally happens to view; its very
nature is to mind does not even experience the world,
the scale of consciousness. predictable objective world "out there"
convince us that its unique view of
but only sensory reports of it. Even
21. THE STUDY OF PURE
upon which we can rely . experience is the genuine article. Each
brilliant thoughts and deepest feelings are
(205) only experience; ultimately , we have
CONSCIOUSNESS
But in transcending the emotional individual secretly feels that his
but one function: to experience
distortions of perception, science itself
experience of the world alone is accurate. V arious ASPECTS OFexperience. (Gee, sounds like Ramtha. creates yet another conceptual distortion,
In our discussion of the levels of
CONSCIOUSNESS have been the
T racy)
due to the limitation of its parameters. consciousness, we noted that one of the
subject of traditional philosophy , and the
Science must o£ necessity remove data
downsides of Pride is denial. Every mind
The major limitation of consciousness is
expressions of consciousness as mind or
from context in order to study it, but in
engages in denial in order to protect its
its innocence. Consciousness is gullible;
emotion have been the subjects of the
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clinical sciences, but the nature of
form must already have existence in
sentience through the instantaneous with his body because his mind isconsciousness itself has never been order to have form. "I am" is a
statement reaction of the body to events experiencing his body . Patients
who have clinically studied in any comprehensive
of awareness witnessing that the capacity
experienced within consciousness. The
lost sizable portions of their bodies report
sense. for experience is independent of form. l
technique af fords us an elegant that their sense of self remains
In medicine the presumption that Descartes implies that consciousness is
methodology with an unmistakably undiminished; such a person will say ,
"I consciousness is no more than a function
only aware of itself when it assumes
established end point that can be am still just as much me:"
of the brain is reflected in such form. But the enlightened throughout
calibrated, documented and reproduced
The question then arises, haw does one
statements as, "The patient regained
history have disagreed, customarily
experimentally . know what is being experienced by the
consciousness." This routine, narrow
stating that consciousness is beyond form
mind? By observation and introspectionCharacteristics of Pure Consciousness
depiction has assumed consciousness is a
and is, indeed, the very omnipotent
one can witness that thoughts have no
mundane physical phenomenon, a self-
matrix out of which form arises. Modern
Our vision of consciousness is linked
capacity to experience themselves, but
evident priority for experience about
physicists concur , for example, David
with our concept of self. The more
that something both beyond and more
which nothing more need be said. Bohm in his concept of an "enfolded"
limited the sense of self, the smaller is
basic than thought experiences the
and "unfolded" universe. the parameter of experiencing. Restricted
The one recurrent focus of interest in the
sequence of thoughts, and that its sense
paradigms of reality are global in their
subject has been speculation regardingW ithout consciousness there would be
of identity is unaltered by the content of
ef fects. As an example, our studies of the
what happens to man's consciousness at
nothing to experience form. It could also
thoughts. "poor" have made it evident that
death. Does the power of life and
be said that form itself, as a product of
What is it that observes and is aware of
"poorness" is not just a financial
awareness arise from a physical basis? perception with no independent
all the subjective and objective
condition, but that the poor are poor in
Does the body sustain conscious life, or
existence, is thus transitory and limited,
phenomena of life? It is consciousness
friendships, poor in verbal skills, poor in
is it the other way around-the power of
whereas consciousness is all-
itself that is resonated as both awarenesseducation, poor in social amenities, poor
life sustains the body? Because the way
encompassing and unlimited. How could
and experiencing. Both are purely
in resources, poor in health and poor in
the question is asked will be defined by
that which is transitory , with a clear
subjective. Consciousness itself is not
overall level of happiness. Poorness,
the questioner's (208) preconception of
beginning and ending, create that which
determined by content; thoughts flowing
then, can be seen as a quality
causality , the level of the questioner will
is formless, all encompassing and
through consciousness are like fish
characteristic of a limited self image
predetermine the nature of the answer;
omnipresent? However , if we see that the
swimming in the ocean. The ocean's
resulting in a paucity of resources. 2 It is
each questioner will derive an answernotion of limitation itself is merely a
existence is independent of the fish; the
not a financial condition, but a level of
representative of his level of product of perception with no intrinsic
content of the sea does not define the
consciousness. The ener gy of that level
consciousness. reality , then the riddle solves itself: form
nature of the water itself. Like a colorless
becomes an expression of the formless. of awareness calibrates at about 60. T o the materialistic scientist the question
ray , consciousness illuminates the object
Ontologically , consciousness is an aspect
The identification and, therefore,
will appear nonsensical, a fruitless
witnessed-thus its traditional association
of "Is-ness," "Being-ness" and is implicit
experience of self could be limited to an
exercise in tautology . T o those at the
throughout world literature is with
(209) in man's definition of himself asidentification of self as one's physical
other pole, the "enlightened," the
"light. "3
human. Human-ness is only one
body . Then, of course, we might well
question will seem comical, and the
Identification solely with. the content of
expression of being-ness. ask, how does one know that one has a
limited perception it reveals will elicit
consciousness account: for the
physical body? Through observation we
compassion. The common man might
The operation of consciousness in human
experience of self as limited. In contrast,
note that the presence of the physical
take on faith the authority of either , or of
beings is the greater subject of our study . to identify with consciousness itself is to
body is registered by the senses. The
conventional religious teachings, to Although consciousness itself may
be know that one's actual self is unlimited.question follows, what is it that is aware
answer the question. intangible, it is intrinsic to all human
When such circumscribed self
behavior . For purposes of this work, the
of the senses? All discussions of life, death and the final
identifications have been surmounted, so
problem is how to clinically explicate the
(210) How do we experience what the
fate of consciousness must necessarily
that the sense of self is identified as
connection between consciousness and
senses are reporting? Something greater ,
ref lect dif ferences of context. The
consciousness itself, we become
behavior in an accurate and meaningful
something more encompassing than the
reciprocal of Descartes' "I think,
"enlightened. "4
way that can be scientifically studied. physical body has to exist in order totherefore I am," is, "I am, therefore I
One characteristic of the experience of
Fortunately , kinesiology categorically
experience that which is lesser; that
think." Because thinking takes place as
pure consciousness is a perception of
demonstrates the physical expression of
something is mind. A person identifies
form, Descartes is correct; that which has
timelessness (or timelessness of
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clinical sciences, but the nature of
form must already have existence in
sentience through the instantaneous with his body because his mind is
consciousness itself has never been order to have form. "I am" is a
statement reaction of the body to events experiencing his body . Patients
who have clinically studied in any comprehensive
of awareness witnessing that the capacity
experienced within consciousness. The
lost sizable portions of their bodies report
sense. for experience is independent of form. ltechnique af fords us an elegant that their sense of self remains
In medicine the presumption that Descartes implies that consciousness is
methodology with an unmistakably undiminished; such a person will say ,
"I consciousness is no more than a function
only aware of itself when it assumes
established end point that can be am still just as much me:"
of the brain is reflected in such form. But the enlightened throughout
calibrated, documented and reproduced
The question then arises, haw does one
statements as, "The patient regained
history have disagreed, customarily
experimentally . know what is being experienced by the
consciousness." This routine, narrow
stating that consciousness is beyond form
mind? By observation and introspection
Characteristics of Pure Consciousness
depiction has assumed consciousness is a
and is, indeed, the very omnipotent
one can witness that thoughts have no
mundane physical phenomenon, a self-
matrix out of which form arises. Modern
Our vision of consciousness is linkedcapacity to experience themselves, but
evident priority for experience about
physicists concur , for example, David
with our concept of self. The more
that something both beyond and more
which nothing more need be said. Bohm in his concept of an "enfolded"
limited the sense of self, the smaller is
basic than thought experiences the
and "unfolded" universe. the parameter of experiencing. Restricted
The one recurrent focus of interest in the
sequence of thoughts, and that its sense
paradigms of reality are global in their
subject has been speculation regarding
W ithout consciousness there would be
of identity is unaltered by the content of
ef fects. As an example, our studies of the
what happens to man's consciousness at
nothing to experience form. It could also
thoughts. "poor" have made it evident thatdeath. Does the power of life and
be said that form itself, as a product of
What is it that observes and is aware of
"poorness" is not just a financial
awareness arise from a physical basis? perception with no independent
all the subjective and objective
condition, but that the poor are poor in
Does the body sustain conscious life, or
existence, is thus transitory and limited,
phenomena of life? It is consciousness
friendships, poor in verbal skills, poor in
is it the other way around-the power of
whereas consciousness is all-
itself that is resonated as both awareness
education, poor in social amenities, poor
life sustains the body? Because the way
encompassing and unlimited. How could
and experiencing. Both are purely
in resources, poor in health and poor in
the question is asked will be defined by
that which is transitory , with a clearsubjective. Consciousness itself is not
overall level of happiness. Poorness,
the questioner's (208) preconception of
beginning and ending, create that which
determined by content; thoughts flowing
then, can be seen as a quality
causality , the level of the questioner will
is formless, all encompassing and
through consciousness are like fish
characteristic of a limited self image
predetermine the nature of the answer;
omnipresent? However , if we see that the
swimming in the ocean. The ocean's
resulting in a paucity of resources. 2 It is
each questioner will derive an answer
notion of limitation itself is merely a
existence is independent of the fish; the
not a financial condition, but a level of
representative of his level of product of perception with no intrinsic
content of the sea does not define the
consciousness. The ener gy of that level
consciousness.reality , then the riddle solves itself: form
nature of the water itself. Like a colorless
becomes an expression of the formless. of awareness calibrates at about 60. T o the materialistic scientist the question
ray , consciousness illuminates the object
Ontologically , consciousness is an aspect
The identification and, therefore,
will appear nonsensical, a fruitless
witnessed-thus its traditional association
of "Is-ness," "Being-ness" and is implicit
experience of self could be limited to an
exercise in tautology . T o those at the
throughout world literature is with
(209) in man's definition of himself as
identification of self as one's physical
other pole, the "enlightened," the
"light. "3
human. Human-ness is only one
body . Then, of course, we might well
question will seem comical, and the
Identification solely with. the content ofexpression of being-ness. ask, how does one know that one has a
limited perception it reveals will elicit
consciousness account: for the
physical body? Through observation we
compassion. The common man might
The operation of consciousness in human
experience of self as limited. In contrast,
note that the presence of the physical
take on faith the authority of either , or of
beings is the greater subject of our study . to identify with consciousness itself is to
body is registered by the senses. The
conventional religious teachings, to Although consciousness itself may
be know that one's actual self is unlimited. question follows, what is it that is aware
answer the question. intangible, it is intrinsic to all human
When such circumscribed self
behavior . For purposes of this work, the
of the senses? All discussions of life, death and the finalidentifications have been surmounted, so
problem is how to clinically explicate the
(210) How do we experience what the
fate of consciousness must necessarily
that the sense of self is identified as
connection between consciousness and
senses are reporting? Something greater ,
ref lect dif ferences of context. The
consciousness itself, we become
behavior in an accurate and meaningful
something more encompassing than the
reciprocal of Descartes' "I think,
"enlightened. "4
way that can be scientifically studied. physical body has to exist in order to
therefore I am," is, "I am, therefore I
One characteristic of the experience of
Fortunately , kinesiology categorically
experience that which is lesser; that
think." Because thinking takes place as
pure consciousness is a perception of
demonstrates the physical expression ofsomething is mind. A person identifies
form, Descartes is correct; that which has
timelessness (or timelessness of
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perception). Consciousness is
elimination of the identification of self as
which is non-living. Life is the the M-field of the new paradigm spreads:
experienced as beyond all form and time
finite.8
expression of consciousness in the recent surveys indicate 65% of
and seen as everywhere equally present. Enlightenment is said to be relatively rare
observable or experiential world of form. respondents report having had
It is described as (21 1) "Is-ness" or "Being-
not so much because of the dif ficulty of
But the totality of human experience
experiences previously categorized as
ness" and, in the spiritual literature, "I-
following the necessary steps thereto, but
attests that consciousness is both spiritual.amness. "5 Consciousness does not because it is a condition of interest to
manifest and unmanifest. The awareness
Because science is, by its very nature,
recognize separation, which is a very few , particularly in modern society . of consciousness within form is common;
concerned only with observable
limitation of perception. The enlightened
If we were to stop one thousand people in
the awareness of pure consciousness,
phenomena, it has never been attracted to
state is a "Oneness" in which there is no
the street and ask them, "What is your
beyond form, is exceptional. spiritual concepts as a subject for
division into parts. Such division is only
greatest ambition in life?" how many
This "experience" of pure consciousness
consideration, despite the fact that many
apparent from a localized perception; it is
would say , "T o be enlightened."? itself, devoid of all content, has been
great scientists throughout history haveonly an accident of a point of view . (212)
consistently reported throughout human
personally testified to subjective
Similar descriptions throughout the
history; always the reports have been the
experiences of pure consciousness
history of thought are in accord with the
Contemporary Recognition of Higher
same.' Many who attained that state
occurring in the course of, and frequently
studies of W illiam James as reported in
Consciousness
became the Great T eachers of history and
crucial to, their work." But the exploding
the famous Gif ford lectures. The The growing level of interest in
have profoundly influenced human field of nonlinear dynamics provoked
experience of consciousness itself he
consciousness as a scientific subject was
behavior . Such beings, in the course of
curiosity and commentary regarding the
described as rare, unique, inef fable andrecently evidenced by the first
their few short years, have been capable
nature of existence and consciousness
"beyond mind;" a thought-free state of
international conference on the subject,
of creating a realization by millions of
itself, expressed in such books as Does
Knowingness, complete, all inclusive,
entitled T oward a Scientific Basis of
people, over millennial periods, of the
God Play Dice? : Mathematics of Chaos,
with neither need nor want, beyond the
Consciousness, held at the University of
contextual significance of existence. by Ian Steward. The new concept of
a limitation of experiencing a merely Arizona Health Sciences Center in
Because (213) these teachings have not
"science of wholeness" became the
individualized personal self.6
T ucson, Arizona, on April 12-17, 1994.
concerned the material world as subject of popular works such as
Looking Another attribute of pure consciousness
This was an international,
experienced through the senses, theyGlass Universe and T urbulent Mirror by
is cessation of the ordinary flow of
interdisciplinary convocation of
have been labeled "spiritual."" Briggs and Peat. Recently , astronomers,
thoughts or feelings, a condition of
impressively credentialed scholars. Before the recent interest of scientists in
mathematicians, brain sur geons and
infinite power , infinite compassion, However , among the numerous
eminent the subject, the study of consciousness
neurologists, as well as physicists, have
infinite gentleness, infinite love. In this
presenters and the wide range of highly
was exclusively the concern of spiritual
been caught up in a tide of enthusiasm
state self becomes Self with a capital "S."
specialized subjects dealt with, there was
teachers and their students. But in the last
about the significance of the new
There is an accompanying recognition of
little inquiry beyond rational/materialistictwenty years the considerable interest of
discoveries. the very origin of the capacity to
explanations of consciousness as a purely
numerous theoretical physicists has (214) W e have frequently pointed
out that experience self as Self. This awareness of
physical phenomenon. turned, as we have seen, to the man is unable to observe or recognize an
self as Self is the culmination of the
In fact, approaches to the subject of
correlation between advanced theoretical
event until there is a prior context and
process of eliminating limited consciousness are as varied as human
physics and the non-material universe. language for naming the event. This
identifications of self.8
experience itself. W e have cited many of
The deepening of popular cultural focus
inability , called paradigm blindness, is
The steps necessary to be taken to
the cutting-edge insights of modern
since the 1960s created a receptive
the direct consequence of a limitation offacilitate awareness of Self as inquiry into this issue in passing. It may
audience for spinof fs of this exploration
context.12 Thus it was that the extension
consciousness have been well detailed
be helpful to review the evolution of
in such books as Fritjof Capra's The T ao
of the new intellectual substructure
historically . Numerous techniques and
contemporary thought on this matter , in
of Physics (Shambhala, 1976), and pervading the physical sciences only
behaviors have been prescribed to order to more dearly proceed to our
own Robert Ornstein's The Psychology of
slowly created the potential for new
facilitate removal of obstacles to conclusions. Consciousness (W .H. Freeman and views and approaches in the "human"
expanded awareness; these can be found
Company , 1972), now classics. The
sciences, such as psychology . The presence of some variety of
in the practice of various spiritual
occurrence of higher states of
consciousness is ordinarily considered to
Although Abraham Maslow long agodisciplines. The one process common to
consciousness, traditionally thought to be
be the distinguishing characteristic of
discussed "peak experiences," the
all such teachings is the progressive
extremely rare, grows more common as
that which is living as opposed to that
mainstream literature of psychology
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perception). Consciousness is
elimination of the identification of self as
which is non-living. Life is the the M-field of the new paradigm spreads:
experienced as beyond all form and time
finite.8
expression of consciousness in the recent surveys indicate 65% of
and seen as everywhere equally present. Enlightenment is said to be relatively rare
observable or experiential world of form. respondents report having had
It is described as (21 1) "Is-ness" or "Being-
not so much because of the dif ficulty ofBut the totality of human experience
experiences previously categorized as
ness" and, in the spiritual literature, "I-
following the necessary steps thereto, but
attests that consciousness is both spiritual. amness. "5 Consciousness does not because it is a condition of interest to
manifest and unmanifest. The awareness
Because science is, by its very nature,
recognize separation, which is a very few , particularly in modern society . of consciousness within form is common;
concerned only with observable
limitation of perception. The enlightened
If we were to stop one thousand people in
the awareness of pure consciousness,
phenomena, it has never been attracted to
state is a "Oneness" in which there is no
the street and ask them, "What is your
beyond form, is exceptional. spiritual concepts as a subject for
division into parts. Such division is only
greatest ambition in life?" how many
This "experience" of pure consciousnessconsideration, despite the fact that many
apparent from a localized perception; it is
would say , "T o be enlightened."? itself, devoid of all content, has been
great scientists throughout history have
only an accident of a point of view . (212)
consistently reported throughout human
personally testified to subjective
Similar descriptions throughout the
history; always the reports have been the
experiences of pure consciousness
history of thought are in accord with the
Contemporary Recognition of Higher
same.' Many who attained that state
occurring in the course of, and frequently
studies of W illiam James as reported in
Consciousness
became the Great T eachers of history and
crucial to, their work." But the exploding
the famous Gif ford lectures. The The growing level of interest in
have profoundly influenced human field of nonlinear dynamics provokedexperience of consciousness itself he
consciousness as a scientific subject was
behavior . Such beings, in the course of
curiosity and commentary regarding the
described as rare, unique, inef fable and
recently evidenced by the first
their few short years, have been capable
nature of existence and consciousness
"beyond mind;" a thought-free state of
international conference on the subject,
of creating a realization by millions of
itself, expressed in such books as Does
Knowingness, complete, all inclusive,
entitled T oward a Scientific Basis of
people, over millennial periods, of the
God Play Dice? : Mathematics of Chaos,
with neither need nor want, beyond the
Consciousness, held at the University of
contextual significance of existence. by Ian Steward. The new concept of
a limitation of experiencing a merely Arizona Health Sciences Center in
Because (213) these teachings have not
"science of wholeness" became theindividualized personal self.6
T ucson, Arizona, on April 12-17, 1994.
concerned the material world as subject of popular works such as
Looking Another attribute of pure consciousness
This was an international,
experienced through the senses, they
Glass Universe and T urbulent Mirror by
is cessation of the ordinary flow of
interdisciplinary convocation of
have been labeled "spiritual."" Briggs and Peat. Recently , astronomers,
thoughts or feelings, a condition of
impressively credentialed scholars. Before the recent interest of scientists in
mathematicians, brain sur geons and
infinite power , infinite compassion, However , among the numerous
eminent the subject, the study of consciousness
neurologists, as well as physicists, have
infinite gentleness, infinite love. In this
presenters and the wide range of highly
was exclusively the concern of spiritual
been caught up in a tide of enthusiasm
state self becomes Self with a capital "S."specialized subjects dealt with, there was
teachers and their students. But in the last
about the significance of the new
There is an accompanying recognition of
little inquiry beyond rational/materialistic
twenty years the considerable interest of
discoveries. the very origin of the capacity to
explanations of consciousness as a purely
numerous theoretical physicists has (214) W e have frequently pointed
out that experience self as Self. This awareness of
physical phenomenon. turned, as we have seen, to the man is unable to observe or recognize an
self as Self is the culmination of the
In fact, approaches to the subject of
correlation between advanced theoretical
event until there is a prior context and
process of eliminating limited consciousness are as varied as human
physics and the non-material universe. language for naming the event. This
identifications of self.8
experience itself. W e have cited many of
The deepening of popular cultural focusinability , called paradigm blindness, is
The steps necessary to be taken to
the cutting-edge insights of modern
since the 1960s created a receptive
the direct consequence of a limitation of
facilitate awareness of Self as inquiry into this issue in passing. It may
audience for spinof fs of this exploration
context.12 Thus it was that the extension
consciousness have been well detailed
be helpful to review the evolution of
in such books as Fritjof Capra's The T ao
of the new intellectual substructure
historically . Numerous techniques and
contemporary thought on this matter , in
of Physics (Shambhala, 1976), and pervading the physical sciences only
behaviors have been prescribed to order to more dearly proceed to our
own Robert Ornstein's The Psychology of
slowly created the potential for new
facilitate removal of obstacles to conclusions. Consciousness (W .H. Freeman and views and approaches in the "human"
expanded awareness; these can be found
Company , 1972), now classics. The
sciences, such as psychology .The presence of some variety of
in the practice of various spiritual
occurrence of higher states of
consciousness is ordinarily considered to
Although Abraham Maslow long ago
disciplines. The one process common to
consciousness, traditionally thought to be
be the distinguishing characteristic of
discussed "peak experiences," the
all such teachings is the progressive
extremely rare, grows more common as
that which is living as opposed to that
mainstream literature of psychology
103
104
never addressed the subject of public, to the phenomena of dying and
desperate conditions recognized by Jung
we can reinterpret the struggle of man's
consciousness itself, with the exception
near -death experiences as reported by
(216) in his work with Rowland H., the first
spiritual enterprise. Pure consciousnessof such classics as The V arieties of
patients. Out-of-body experience also
link, as we have seen, in the long chain
itself, that which is described as Is-ness,
Religious Experience by W illiam James,
eventually became a relatively common
of healings that eventually became the
Being-ness, I-am-ness, represents the
long the standard scientific work on the
subject, as sur gical patients reported out-
world-wide Alcoholics Anonymous infinite potential, infinite power and
psychology of consciousness as spiritual
of-body adventures in which they
movement, lay distinctly within the realm
infinite ener gy source of all existence,
experience. Eventually , transpersonal witnessed their entire operations
and of higher consciousness. The profound
identified as Deity , God, Divinity . W ithin
psychology went beyond the bounds of
heard everything said in the operating
spiritual experience held out as hope by
this potential, the Unmanifest becomes
experimental and clinical psychology toroom.13 Thelma Moss became well
Jung to Rowland, very much akin to the
Manifest as the A vatarChrist, Buddha,
investigate those aspects of human known for her work with Kirlian
transformations of enlightenment, was
the Great T eacher , the Great Guru-whose
experience which were purely subjective. photography of ener gy fields such as
the essence of the message passed on to
ener gy field calibrates at 1,000 or more. Unusual experiences or abilities once
those around fingertips. Her photographs
Bill W ., the founder of AA. 16 It is
These individuals set up attractor patterns
discounted as hoax or hallucination
of the ener gy body of a full leaf
notable that Bill W . characterized AA as
of enormous force to which the mind,
finally became the subject of remaining after it had been cut in two are
"the language of the heart. "17
with its holographic capacity to react
parapsychology , legitimatingwell known.14 Finally even acupuncture
All these trails blazed in the pioneering
globally to attractor fields, is subject. experimental attempts to verify has gained a place of some respect in the
of theoretical and applied human wisdom
Of lesser moment, but still enormously
experiences such as extrasensory American health field, with many
have a common point of conver gence. Or
powerful, are the "ordinary" enlightened
perception. physicians learning the technique despite
perhaps it might be better said that they
teachers who have taught the path to the
The field of psychiatry originally arose
the fact that traditional medicine has not
share a common point of origin. Bill
realization of the "Self." The Self has
from the attempt to address the tangible
recognized any ener gies other than
W ilson's revelation from the depths of
been described by the enlightened
etiology of the intangibles in humanmechanical, electrical or chemical. despair did not proceed from conceptual
throughout time as infinite, formless,
behavior and disease. Psychiatry , as a
Holistic approaches operate from a
rationality or any other introspective
changeless, all present, unmanifest-and-
branch of medicine, concerned itself with
dif ferent context of the nature of human
focus of self, but from a leap to higher
manifest.l Herein is the One (218) ness, the
pathology; therefore it dealt almost consciousness than does traditional
consciousness, a transport of Self to a
All-ness and God-ness of all that exists,
exclusively with the lower levels of
medicine, with emphasis on healing
Presence of Infinite Light and Power . 18
indistinguishable from the Creator ,
consciousness and their neurophysiologic
rather than treating. And though their
That this transformational experience has
whose power in the human realm is acorrelates. Consciousness as such connection with the theoretical
led to the recovery of millions is merely
giant attractor field which allows and
remained outside the paradigms of breakthroughs of recent decades may
not testimony to the power of ener gy fields
encompasses variation (free will) so that
psychiatry . appear explicit, the alternate therapies
which calibrate at 600 or more. That is
"all paths lead to Me." T eachings and
In medicine, physicians who worked
employed by holistic health-care givers,
the level at which there is a crossover of
other works that treat of this have
from a lar ger paradigm of the healing
whether physicians, alternative
the experience of consciousness from
typically calibrated at 700 in our studies. process and included non-traditional practitioners or lay healers-however
form to formless. At the ener gy field of 600, ordinary
modalities in their therapeutic approaches
widely they dif fer in their approach andThis formless power , the "Higher Power"
thought ceases. Beyond temporal linear
became known as "holistic" practitioners,
method-all have one common element:
of the worldwide twelve-step self-help
process, existence is witnessed as
an appellation that at first carried distinct
all are based on techniques to influence
movement and the basis for its millions
Knowing-ness, omnipresence, non-
overtones of unprofessionalism among
not protoplasm as such, but an ener gy
of recoveries,19 is the same wellspring of
duality . Because existence has no
the ranks of the medical establishment. field which surrounds, courses through
power to which all these far -flung
locality , the "me/you" duality and
But the contributions of pioneering (215)
and conditions the human body .15
branches of intellectual exploration have
consequent illusion of separationindividuals in this field, especially in
Outside the medical domain, the
been not so much thrusting forward as
disappears. 2 This state is the peace
such areas as recovery from heart attacks
phenomenal success of the twelve-step
working their way bank. It is the power
beyond all understanding, infinite,
or the use of prayer to speed up
self-help movement, to which we have
of pure consciousness itself. unconditional love-all encompassing, all
recuperation in sur gical patients, frequently alluded, has impressively
knowing, all present, omnipowerful and
demanded serious recognition. established that healing can be ef fected
22. SPIRITUAL STRUGGLE
coincident with the Self, which is the
Elizabeth Kubler -Ross brought the through the practice of principles of
FROM THE UNDERST ANDING of
awareness that the Manifest is one with
attention of the professions, as well as the
consciousness. The capacity to healconsciousness at which we have arrived,
the Unmanifest. 105
106
never addressed the subject of public, to the phenomena of dying and
desperate conditions recognized by Jung
we can reinterpret the struggle of man's
consciousness itself, with the exception
near -death experiences as reported by
(216) in his work with Rowland H., the first
spiritual enterprise. Pure consciousness
of such classics as The V arieties of
patients. Out-of-body experience also
link, as we have seen, in the long chain
itself, that which is described as Is-ness,
Religious Experience by W illiam James,
eventually became a relatively common
of healings that eventually became the
Being-ness, I-am-ness, represents the
long the standard scientific work on the
subject, as sur gical patients reported out-world-wide Alcoholics Anonymous infinite potential, infinite power and
psychology of consciousness as spiritual
of-body adventures in which they
movement, lay distinctly within the realm
infinite ener gy source of all existence,
experience. Eventually , transpersonal witnessed their entire operations
and of higher consciousness. The profound
identified as Deity , God, Divinity . W ithin
psychology went beyond the bounds of
heard everything said in the operating
spiritual experience held out as hope by
this potential, the Unmanifest becomes
experimental and clinical psychology to
room.13 Thelma Moss became well
Jung to Rowland, very much akin to the
Manifest as the A vatarChrist, Buddha,
investigate those aspects of human known for her work with Kirlian
transformations of enlightenment, was
the Great T eacher , the Great Guru-whose
experience which were purely subjective. photography of ener gy fields such as
the essence of the message passed on to
ener gy field calibrates at 1,000 or more.Unusual experiences or abilities once
those around fingertips. Her photographs
Bill W ., the founder of AA. 16 It is
These individuals set up attractor patterns
discounted as hoax or hallucination
of the ener gy body of a full leaf
notable that Bill W . characterized AA as
of enormous force to which the mind,
finally became the subject of remaining after it had been cut in two are
"the language of the heart. "17
with its holographic capacity to react
parapsychology , legitimating
well known.14 Finally even acupuncture
All these trails blazed in the pioneering
globally to attractor fields, is subject. experimental attempts to verify has gained a place of some respect in the
of theoretical and applied human wisdom
Of lesser moment, but still enormously
experiences such as extrasensory American health field, with many
have a common point of conver gence. Or
powerful, are the "ordinary" enlightened
perception.physicians learning the technique despite
perhaps it might be better said that they
teachers who have taught the path to the
The field of psychiatry originally arose
the fact that traditional medicine has not
share a common point of origin. Bill
realization of the "Self." The Self has
from the attempt to address the tangible
recognized any ener gies other than
W ilson's revelation from the depths of
been described by the enlightened
etiology of the intangibles in human
mechanical, electrical or chemical. despair did not proceed from conceptual
throughout time as infinite, formless,
behavior and disease. Psychiatry , as a
Holistic approaches operate from a
rationality or any other introspective
changeless, all present, unmanifest-and-
branch of medicine, concerned itself with
dif ferent context of the nature of human
focus of self, but from a leap to highermanifest.l Herein is the One (218) ness, the
pathology; therefore it dealt almost consciousness than does traditional
consciousness, a transport of Self to a
All-ness and God-ness of all that exists,
exclusively with the lower levels of
medicine, with emphasis on healing
Presence of Infinite Light and Power . 18
indistinguishable from the Creator ,
consciousness and their neurophysiologic
rather than treating. And though their
That this transformational experience has
whose power in the human realm is a
correlates. Consciousness as such connection with the theoretical
led to the recovery of millions is merely
giant attractor field which allows and
remained outside the paradigms of breakthroughs of recent decades may
not testimony to the power of ener gy fields
encompasses variation (free will) so that
psychiatry . appear explicit, the alternate therapies
which calibrate at 600 or more. That is
"all paths lead to Me." T eachings and
In medicine, physicians who workedemployed by holistic health-care givers,
the level at which there is a crossover of
other works that treat of this have
from a lar ger paradigm of the healing
whether physicians, alternative
the experience of consciousness from
typically calibrated at 700 in our studies. process and included non-traditional practitioners or lay healers-however
form to formless. At the ener gy field of 600, ordinary
modalities in their therapeutic approaches
widely they dif fer in their approach and
This formless power , the "Higher Power"
thought ceases. Beyond temporal linear
became known as "holistic" practitioners,
method-all have one common element:
of the worldwide twelve-step self-help
process, existence is witnessed as
an appellation that at first carried distinct
all are based on techniques to influence
movement and the basis for its millions
Knowing-ness, omnipresence, non-overtones of unprofessionalism among
not protoplasm as such, but an ener gy
of recoveries,19 is the same wellspring of
duality . Because existence has no
the ranks of the medical establishment. field which surrounds, courses through
power to which all these far -flung
locality , the "me/you" duality and
But the contributions of pioneering (215)
and conditions the human body .15
branches of intellectual exploration have
consequent illusion of separation
individuals in this field, especially in
Outside the medical domain, the
been not so much thrusting forward as
disappears. 2 This state is the peace
such areas as recovery from heart attacks
phenomenal success of the twelve-step
working their way bank. It is the power
beyond all understanding, infinite,
or the use of prayer to speed up
self-help movement, to which we haveof pure consciousness itself. unconditional love-all encompassing, all
recuperation in sur gical patients, frequently alluded, has impressively
knowing, all present, omnipowerful and
demanded serious recognition. established that healing can be ef fected
22. SPIRITUAL STRUGGLE
coincident with the Self, which is the
Elizabeth Kubler -Ross brought the through the practice of principles of
FROM THE UNDERST ANDING of
awareness that the Manifest is one with
attention of the professions, as well as the
consciousness. The capacity to heal
consciousness at which we have arrived,
the Unmanifest. 105
106
T ruly spiritual states can be said to begin
200 do, in fact, generally preclude
we have seen, was the precise experience
the ad- (221) dicted invariably recommend
at a calibrated level of about 500
spiritual experience. The classical chakraof Bill W ilson which resulted in the
avoiding the influence (i.e., the ener gy
(unconditional love) and continue to
system recognized by many spiritual
founding of AA. This experience seems
fields) of former lifestyle associations. infinity . T eachers who calibrate in the
disciplines correlates almost exactly with
typically to be characterized by a total
These addicts found that leaving the drug
high 500s and the 600s are frequently
the Map of Consciousness that has
transformation of consciousness and was not enough. T o do so was
merely to recognized as saints; their state of
emer ged from our studies. The level 600
liberation from the entrainment of lower
attack the A>B>C of addiction. As long
consciousness is often described as corresponds to the crown chakra, 500
to attractor fields and a sudden emer gence
as they could not make the commitment
sublime. 3
the heart, 200 and up to the solar plexus,
into higher awareness. (This type ofof will to entirely leave the influence of
It is a common experience for as yet
while the lower attitudes and emotions of
experience, common in the early days of
the field-of which the music, like the
unenlightened devotees to enter such a
spite, envy , resentment and jealousy are
AA when its members were frequently
drug, was simply a manifestation-they
sublime state when in the presence of
associated with the spleen. The base
"last-gaspers," is not reported by "high
could not escape entrainment to the low
teachers whose ener gy fields calibrate at
chakra has to do with animal survival,
bottom" members who constitute the
ener gy attractor , the ABC of addiction. 550 and over , through the process of
absorption with which prohibits spiritual
majority of newcomers to Alcoholics
Recovered addicts who leave the ener gy"entrainment"-the dominance of a progress; thus all spiritual teachings
Anonymous today .) field of their self help programs rather
powerful attractor field. Until the devotee
advise against worldliness, suggesting
Just as the entrainment or influence of
predictably relapse.9 Besides having
himself arrives at the higher state of
avoidance of attachment to sex or
the higher ener gy fields has an anabolic,
relinquished the infusion of the combined
awareness, this state will not persist
money .6
or growth-enhancing, ef fect on a subject,
power of their fellow members, their
when he is out of the higher ener gy field
The lower regions are also the locus of
entrainment by lower attractor fields has
assertion that one can go it alone is a
of the teacher . 4 Advanced spiritual
addictions; one can be fixated at any of
a catabolic, or destructive, ef fect; thenotorious symptom of an oncoming
seekers often fluctuate in and out of this
the lower levels. Almost all of these
most widespread example in today's
r elapse, because it indicates an
"presence of the Beloved" as they
ener gy fields and the behaviors
culture is the influence of some forms of
infiltration of arr ogance and pride,
approach enlightenment; this loss of the
associated with them now have given rise
violent pop music. Among our test
calibrating at 175, well below the
higher state and descent to a lower is
to specific self-help groups, all of which
subjects, punk rock, death rock and
power of the energy field r equir ed for
identified in both Eastern and W estern
concur that without a spiritual context,
gangster rap music made every subject
healing. literature as an "anguish of the soul. "5recovery is quite unlikely . In
go weak, confirming earlier observations
(Fr om my experience with volunteers with
Spiritual work, like other intensive consciousness-raising programs in
made by Dr . John Diamond.7 In a more
diseases, this self assertion also applies. pursuits such as sport, can be arduous
general, a universal dictum is that one is
recent study of students reported in The
T racy)
and frequently requires the development
powerless until one tells the truth. All
Arizona Republic, July 4, 1994, Dr . The same principle, of course, operates in
of specific tools for the task, including an
spiritually oriented self-help groups
James Johnson of the University of North
the other direction. T o seek
extremely focused (219)
intent and require this first step. They ar e
Carolina found rap music to increase
enlightenment is to seek entrainment tounfailing concentration. The dif ficulty of
unanimous that an open mind and
tolerance for and predisposition to the most powerful attractor patterns. The inner work results from the great ef fort
willingness ar e necessary pr er equisites
violence while promoting materialism
key , again, is will, a constantly repeated
required to escape from the familiar
to pr ogr ess; in other words, one must
and reducing both immediate interest in
act of choice. Here the chaos-theory
gravity of lower attractor fields and move
have r eached an energy field of 200 in
academics and long-term success. principle of sensitive dependence on
to the influence of a higher field. In order
one's development to be healable . A common experience observed in initial conditions provides a scientific
to ameliorate this struggle all religions
Lingering within the influence of fields
therapy groups and clinics is that drug
explanation of the traditional way ofissue proscriptions against exposing below this entails a real danger of
abusers do not recover if they continue to
spiritual progress. In all spiritual
oneself to the lower ener gy fields; it is
becoming so deeply entrained that one
listen to heavy metal rock; a one-year
disciplines the opening wedge predicated
only from an authoritarian viewpoint that
cannot escape. This is not always so ,
follow-up of inpatient and outpatient
for advancing one's awareness is
such error is depicted as "sin." A more
however; history has (220) noted many
cocaine addicts from Sedona V illa, a
described as "willingness." History
liberal viewpoint accepts man's dalliance
occasions of individuals in the very
branch of Camelback Hospital of shows what has been clinically shown
as in lower ener gy fields as pardonable
depths of entrainment suddenly breaking
Phoenix, Arizona, indicated that not a
well: a persistent willingness is the
"failing. "through to a high level of consciousness. single cocaine abuser who continued to
trigger that activates a new attractor field
But attitudes, emotions and behaviors
Such sudden breakthroughs are still seen
listen to this violent and negative and allows one to begin to leave the
old. characteristic of the ener gy fields below
on occasion in modern society; this, as
music r ecover ed. 8 Self-help groups for
W e may visualize a lesser attractor field
107
108
T ruly spiritual states can be said to begin
200 do, in fact, generally preclude
we have seen, was the precise experience
the ad- (221) dicted invariably recommend
at a calibrated level of about 500
spiritual experience. The classical chakra
of Bill W ilson which resulted in the
avoiding the influence (i.e., the ener gy
(unconditional love) and continue tosystem recognized by many spiritual
founding of AA. This experience seems
fields) of former lifestyle associations. infinity . T eachers who calibrate in the
disciplines correlates almost exactly with
typically to be characterized by a total
These addicts found that leaving the drug
high 500s and the 600s are frequently
the Map of Consciousness that has
transformation of consciousness and was not enough. T o do so was
merely to recognized as saints; their state of
emer ged from our studies. The level 600
liberation from the entrainment of lower
attack the A>B>C of addiction. As long
consciousness is often described as corresponds to the crown chakra, 500
to attractor fields and a sudden emer gence
as they could not make the commitment
sublime. 3
the heart, 200 and up to the solar plexus,
into higher awareness. (This type of
of will to entirely leave the influence of
It is a common experience for as yet
while the lower attitudes and emotions ofexperience, common in the early days of
the field-of which the music, like the
unenlightened devotees to enter such a
spite, envy , resentment and jealousy are
AA when its members were frequently
drug, was simply a manifestation-they
sublime state when in the presence of
associated with the spleen. The base
"last-gaspers," is not reported by "high
could not escape entrainment to the low
teachers whose ener gy fields calibrate at
chakra has to do with animal survival,
bottom" members who constitute the
ener gy attractor , the ABC of addiction. 550 and over , through the process of
absorption with which prohibits spiritual
majority of newcomers to Alcoholics
Recovered addicts who leave the ener gy
"entrainment"-the dominance of a progress; thus all spiritual teachings
Anonymous today .) field of their self help programs rather
powerful attractor field. Until the devoteeadvise against worldliness, suggesting
Just as the entrainment or influence of
predictably relapse.9 Besides having
himself arrives at the higher state of
avoidance of attachment to sex or
the higher ener gy fields has an anabolic,
relinquished the infusion of the combined
awareness, this state will not persist
money .6
or growth-enhancing, ef fect on a subject,
power of their fellow members, their
when he is out of the higher ener gy field
The lower regions are also the locus of
entrainment by lower attractor fields has
assertion that one can go it alone is a
of the teacher . 4 Advanced spiritual
addictions; one can be fixated at any of
a catabolic, or destructive, ef fect; the
notorious symptom of an oncoming
seekers often fluctuate in and out of this
the lower levels. Almost all of these
most widespread example in today'sr elapse, because it indicates an
"presence of the Beloved" as they
ener gy fields and the behaviors
culture is the influence of some forms of
infiltration of arr ogance and pride,
approach enlightenment; this loss of the
associated with them now have given rise
violent pop music. Among our test
calibrating at 175, well below the
higher state and descent to a lower is
to specific self-help groups, all of which
subjects, punk rock, death rock and
power of the energy field r equir ed for
identified in both Eastern and W estern
concur that without a spiritual context,
gangster rap music made every subject
healing. literature as an "anguish of the soul. "5
recovery is quite unlikely . In
go weak, confirming earlier observations
(Fr om my experience with volunteers withSpiritual work, like other intensive consciousness-raising programs in
made by Dr . John Diamond.7 In a more
diseases, this self assertion also applies. pursuits such as sport, can be arduous
general, a universal dictum is that one is
recent study of students reported in The
T racy)
and frequently requires the development
powerless until one tells the truth. All
Arizona Republic, July 4, 1994, Dr . The same principle, of course, operates in
of specific tools for the task, including an
spiritually oriented self-help groups
James Johnson of the University of North
the other direction. T o seek
extremely focused (219)
intent and require this first step. They ar e
Carolina found rap music to increase
enlightenment is to seek entrainment to
unfailing concentration. The dif ficulty of
unanimous that an open mind and
tolerance for and predisposition to the most powerful attractor patterns. The inner work results from the great ef fortwillingness ar e necessary pr er equisites
violence while promoting materialism
key , again, is will, a constantly repeated
required to escape from the familiar
to pr ogr ess; in other words, one must
and reducing both immediate interest in
act of choice. Here the chaos-theory
gravity of lower attractor fields and move
have r eached an energy field of 200 in
academics and long-term success. principle of sensitive dependence on
to the influence of a higher field. In order
one's development to be healable . A common experience observed in initial conditions provides a scientific
to ameliorate this struggle all religions
Lingering within the influence of fields
therapy groups and clinics is that drug
explanation of the traditional way of
issue proscriptions against exposing below this entails a real danger of
abusers do not recover if they continue to
spiritual progress. In all spiritual
oneself to the lower ener gy fields; it is
becoming so deeply entrained that onelisten to heavy metal rock; a one-year
disciplines the opening wedge predicated
only from an authoritarian viewpoint that
cannot escape. This is not always so ,
follow-up of inpatient and outpatient
for advancing one's awareness is
such error is depicted as "sin." A more
however; history has (220) noted many
cocaine addicts from Sedona V illa, a
described as "willingness." History
liberal viewpoint accepts man's dalliance
occasions of individuals in the very
branch of Camelback Hospital of shows what has been clinically shown
as in lower ener gy fields as pardonable
depths of entrainment suddenly breaking
Phoenix, Arizona, indicated that not a
well: a persistent willingness is the
"failing. "through to a high level of consciousness. single cocaine abuser who continued to
trigger that activates a new attractor field
But attitudes, emotions and behaviors
Such sudden breakthroughs are still seen
listen to this violent and negative and allows one to begin to leave the
old. characteristic of the ener gy fields below
on occasion in modern society; this, as
music r ecover ed. 8 Self-help groups for
W e may visualize a lesser attractor field
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escape the ener gy fields that gradually
ultimately , there are few things more
certainly is, or there would be no
the introduction of a third element (free
come to dominate their behaviors.
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        Unless the painful lessons of life
consciousness, its pattern of thought,
humility comes the capacity to laugh at
which we deal ourselves are thus
perception, feeling and memory, is theoneself and increasingly be less the
transformed, through humility, into
consequence of entrainment of the Objectively, it can be seen that
thoughts victim of the mind and more its master. gateways to growth and development,
attractor ener gy field by which it is
really belong to the consciousness of the
From thinking that we "are" our minds,
they are wasted. dominated. It is well to remember that
world; the individual mind merely
we begin to see that we have minds, and
this domination is volitional. It is not
processes them in new combinations and
W e witness, we observe, we record
that it is the mind that has thoughts,
imposed, but is the outcome of one's own
permutations. What seem to be truly
apparent processions of experiences. But
beliefs, feelings and opinions. Eventually
choices, beliefs and goals. original thoughts appear only through theeven in awareness itself nothing actually
we may arrive at the insight that all our
happens. A wareness merely registers
By consensus we synchronize with a
medium of genius and are invariably felt
thoughts are merely borrowed from the
what is being experienced; it has no
field pattern which implies specific styles
by their authors to be found or given, not
great database of consciousness and were
ef fect on it. A wareness is the all-
of processing and influences all our (203)
created. It may be the case that we are
never really our own. Prevailing thought
encompassing attractor field of unlimited
decisions according to its accompanying
each unique, as no two snowflakes are
systems are received, absorbed, identified
power identical with life itself. And there
set of values and meanings. What
alike; however, we are still lust
with, and, in due time, replaced by newis nothing the mind believes that is not
appears an important and exciting piece
snowflakes. ideas that have become fashionable with
fallacious at a higher level of awareness. of information from the perspective of
W e all inherit the human condition of
us. As we place less value on such
one level might be boring or even
mind in our unasked-for birth. T o
The mind identifies with its content. It
passing notions, they lose their capacity
repulsive at another level; truth is transcend the limitations of mind, it is
takes credit and blame for what it
to dominate us, and we experience
subjective. That can be frightening. The
necessary to dethrone it from its tyranny
receives, for it would be humbling to the
progressive freedom of, as well as from,
current elevation o£ science to the status
as sole arbiter of (204) reality. The vain
mind's vanity to admit that the only thingthe mind. This in turn ripens into a new
of infallible oracle is an expression of our
mind confers its imprimatur of
it is doing is experiencing, and, in fact,
source of pleasure; fittingly, the pleasure
insecure compulsion to feel there is some
authenticity on the movie of life it
only experiencing experiencing. The of existence itself matures as one
ascends kind of a measurable, universally happens to view; its very
nature is to mind does not even experience the world,
the scale of consciousness. predictable objective world "out there"
convince us that its unique view of
but only sensory reports of it. Even
21. THE STUDY OF PURE
upon which we can rely. experience is the genuine article. Each
brilliant thoughts and deepest feelings are
(205) only experience; ultimately, we have
CONSCIOUSNESS
But in transcending the emotional individual secretly feels that his
but one function: to experience
distortions of perception, science itselfexperience of the world alone is accurate. V arious ASPECTS OF
experience. (Gee, sounds like Ramtha. creates yet another conceptual distortion,
In our discussion of the levels of
CONSCIOUSNESS have been the
T racy)
due to the limitation of its parameters. consciousness, we noted that one of the
subject of traditional philosophy, and the
Science must o£ necessity remove data
downsides of Pride is denial. Every mind
The major limitation of consciousness is
expressions of consciousness as mind or
from context in order to study it, but in
engages in denial in order to protect its
its innocence. Consciousness is gullible;
emotion have been the subjects of the
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A>B>C observed as the phenomenal
the end it is only the context which gives"correctness. " This begets the fixity and
it believes everything it hears. world. the data its whole significance or value. resistance to change which prevents the
Consciousness is like hardware that will
This schema provides a model for a
The eventual discovery arrived at by
average consciousness from advancing
play back any software put into it. W e
better understanding of the nature of
advanced theoretical physics can be
much more than five points in a lifetime. never lose the innocence of our own
causality, which occurs on the level of
reached from any or ganized field of
Great leaps in level of consciousness are
consciousness; it persists, naive and
the film, not the level of the screen. human knowledge: the more detailed
always preceded by surrender of the
trusting, like an impressionable child. ItsBecause the world routinely applies its
one's analysis of the structure of "out
illusion that "I know. " Frequently, the
only guardian is a discerning awareness
ef forts to the screen of life at the level of
there," the more one discovers that what
only way one can reach this willingness
that scrutinizes the incoming program. A>B>C, these endeavors are inef fectual
one is examining is, in fact, the nature of
to change is when one "hits bottom" by
Cover the ages it has been noted that
and costly. Causality stems from the
the intricate processes of consciousness
running out a course of action to its end
merely observing the mind tends to
attractor patterns of levels of ener gy, the
in here. There is nothing "out there" other
in the defeat of a futile belief system. increase one's level of consciousness. 3 A
ABCs of the configurations imprinted on
than consciousness itself. The habitualLight cannot enter a closed box; the
mind which is being watched becomes
the film of mind, illuminated by tendency to believe otherwise is our
upside of catastrophe can be an opening
more humble and begins to relinquish its
consciousness. fundamental illusion, a vanity of the
to a higher level of awareness. If life is
claims to omniscience. A growth in
human mind, which tends always to view
viewed as a teacher, it then becomes just
The nature of the stream of
awareness can then take place. W ith
its transitory subject as "mine. " that. Unless the painful lessons of life
consciousness, its pattern of thought,
humility comes the capacity to laugh at
which we deal ourselves are thus
perception, feeling and memory, is the
oneself and increasingly be less the
transformed, through humility, intoconsequence of entrainment of the Objectively, it can be seen that
thoughts victim of the mind and more its master.
The major limitation of consciousness is its tendency to be victim of the mind and more its master.
What is the major limitation of consciousness?
Science must remove data from context in order to study consciousness.
What is the role of science in the study of consciousness?
Consciousness does not recognize separation; it is a condition of interest to the Creator.
What is the relationship between consciousness and the brain?
No, a person's sense of self is not limited; it is merely a product of one's own
Can a person's sense of self be limited?
There is a correlation between the study of consciousness and the study of addiction; it is not possible to recover from addiction without a spiritual context.
What is the relationship between the study of consciousness and the study of addiction?