Jhana states

It may be that some d-SoCs cannot be reached directly from another particular d-SoC some intermediary d-SoC has to be traversed. The process is like crossing a stream that is too wide to leap over directly you have to leap onto one or more stepping stones in sequence to get to the other side. Each stepping stone is a stable place in itself, but they are transitional with respect to the beginning and end points of the process. Some of the jhana states of Buddhist meditation may be of this nature (see Goleman s chapter in Transpersonal Psychologies 128 ). This kind of stable transitional state should not be confused with the inherently unstable transitional periods discussed above, and we should be careful in our use of the words state and period. 

We do not know enough about these states in scientific terms to be sure whether they represent nine d-SoCs with the quantum jump between each or a smaller number of d-SoCs, some of whose distinctions actually are differences in depth within a d-SoC For purposes of discussion here, however, we will assume these jhana states, and the states described in Figures 17-4 and 17-5, are all d-SoCs. (back)... 

LOW 1st JHANA Hindering thoughts, sensory perception, and awareness of painful bodily states all cease. Initial and unbroken sustai ned attention to primary object of concentration, feelings of rapture, bliss, and one-pointedness MATERIAL STATES... 

Now, is the +24 state higher or lower than the sixth jhana Is the state... 

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