Higher States of Consciousness

Yet since experiencers of d-ASCs often describe them as higher or lower states, we should, to be adequately descriptive, examine more closely the idea of higher states. 

What does a person mean when he says, I m high or I m in a higher state of consciousness  

The primary value in this scheme is rationality, adherence to 

This ordering of these conditions and d-SoCs is not scientific for it has never been made explicit and subjected to detailed examination to determine how well it orders reality. Further, its implicitness under ordinary circumstances makes it a barrier to better understanding. When a value system or a set of assumptions is implicit, you do not know you have it, so you do not question its value. You automatically perceive and think in terms of the value/assumption system. For example, anything said by a person labeled psychotic must be viewed as a sign of his craziness, not to be taken at face value. Patients are crazy the doctors are sane. 

A quite different valuing of d-SoCs is held by many people we 

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Higher states of consciousness on the Buddhist Path of Concentration... 

Higher states of consciousness in the Arica system. Some still lower states are not shown. 

Some systems do not seem to recognize the transference aspects of this situation or any need to eventually resolve it, while others seem to assume that the experience of higher states of consciousness will automatically take care of any problems. Giu djieff s emphasis on constant self-observation and self-remembering will, if practiced well, make manifestations of transference fairly apparent to students, but they may still need specific psychological help to resolve transference manifestations. 

In earlier chapters I avoid talking about "higher" states of consciousness, as the first job of science is description, not evaluation. Here, however, I want to speculate on what one relatively objective definition of the adjective higher, applied to a d-SoC, could mean with respect to communication. If we consider that understanding many communications from other people is more valuable than understanding few of their communications, then a higher d-SoC is one in which communications form a variety of d-ASCs are adequately understood a lower d-SoC is one in which understanding is limited, perhaps to the particular lower d-SoC itself... 

The fourth stage of alchemical transformation is Conjunction. It can be related to the chakral system where the heart is the fourth center of awareness. The heart can also represent the World Tree -- they are both a central clearing house where the spiritual meets the physical and blends and harmonizes them so that higher states of consciousness may be integrated. 

Figure 17-4. Higher states of consciousness oa the Buddhist Path of Insight.

What, then, is a higher state of consciousness It is something... 

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