Super-consciousness

This enigmatic forth state is this limitless consciousness Sir John Woodroffe speaks of in his The Serpent Power, but there is a fifth state even more of an enigma than The Sleepless Sleep. Rarely spoken of, they call it Turiyaatitam "Beyond the Sleepless Sleep". It is the super-conscious state, the universal mind, where there is no object, only one vast and luminous self-awareness that contains within it all things. 

A Some of the most interesting and informative experiments in this field were done by Pepper s group and then at Keele and elsewhere with anhydrous perchloric acid as the initiator. It is therefore historically important that in the present super-cautious, safety conscious era, few, if any, workers are ever likely to follow Pepper s pioneering work with this hazardous material, to test the reproducibility of these classical findings. The same applies of course to our studies on the polymerisation of various 1,3-dioxacycloalkanes, most of which were also done with anhydrous HC104, see Chapter 7. There is no substitute for it, as every acid behaves differently and in particular the lazy worker s substitute aq. HC104 + acetic anydride, is a very different initiator system. 

If these super-real visions involve wave phenomena, then the external world takes on a radiance and a revelation that is staggeringly clear. The experienced insight that the world of phenomena exists in the form of waves, electronic images, can produce a sense of illuminated power. Everything is experienced as consciousness. 

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