The 7 States of Consciousness
Consciousness is not a fixed energy or quantity. Consciousness varies greatly from person to person, some people being much more aware, alert, wise, causal, loving, and happy (the Essence Energies) in life than others. Consciousness of Self (and therefore, consciousness of Essence) also varies in the same person in the normal daily cycle of sleeping and waking. They also vary according to how much vital energy we have used and wasted in thinking and emoting and resisting life. Spirituality is all about the accumulation, conservation, and wise use of energy.
Note: There are 10 easily identified stages of human consciousness on the journey from Materiality to Spiritual Illumination. These are: Survival, Security, Sensation, Dominion, Dark Night of the Soul, Search, First Awakening, Second Awakening, Warrior, and Illumination. Do not confuse the Ten Stages with the Seven States presented here.
Your Consciousness is your ability or your amount of awareness of both Self and Other (anything in the psycanic or physical universes). This awareness can range from zero (as in deep, dreamless sleep), to Cosmic Consciousness, which is total awareness of all that exists in all universes (the state of Consciousness of the SUPREME BEING).
It is hard to classify something as fluid, complex, and multi-dimensional as Consciousness (Essence), and the different spiritual schools have various points of view on how to do so. Here, we are going to distinguish seven states of Consciousness = Essence = BEing, ranging from zero Awareness of anything to Cosmic Consciousness: the Awareness of Everything that Exists by BEing IT ALL.
The Seven States are:
- Dreamless Sleep
- Dreaming Sleep
- Walking Sleep
- Awake, Enlightenment
- Samadhi
- Illumination, Unity
- Cosmic Consciousness
Brief explanation of each State
For information on Illumination and those who have achieved it, read the book, "Cosmic Consciousness," by Richard M. Bucke, written in 1898. Download it free here.
Of the 7 States, only the first three states are known to most people. Few people even know of the existence of the States 4 through 7, much less have any personal experience with them. The States of BEing 4 through 7 do not come naturally; they are blocked by the Essence Suppressor Mass, and a person must work long and hard on hir BEing to achieve them. Only 235 humans since the "beginning of time" have achieved the 7th State, Integration or Cosmic Consciousness, of which the best known example are Jesus, Buddha, and Krishna.
1st State: Deep, Dreamless Sleep
In this level, you have no consciousness, no Reality→Experience of anything whatsoever. Ergo, you do not exist and nothing exists for you. There is no one home at all. There is neither object observed nor observer. This is a state of non-existence as far as you, the human being, is concerned. (You-psycan have gone back into the First UNIVERSE to recharge the energy necessary to create and maintain the "show" here for you. This is a state of unconscious Samadhi.)
2nd State: Dreaming Sleep
In this level, you have some Consciousness and therefore Experience, albeit muddled and confused. You will have varying degrees of vague and hazy consciousness of yourSelf, of "I" and of your existence, and of psycanic energies (thoughts, images, and emotions). You may occasionally have enough consciousness and stimulus to vaguely perceive your body or the physical universe. However, both your Consciousness and your Cause (control) of realities is very limited.
3rd State: Waking Sleep
Lost in the mind. This is the "standard" state of most humans as they go about their daily lives. It is a state of living lost in the mind, of walking around and going through the motions necessary for survival and comfort of the body with minimal OBJECTIVE AWARENESS of Self and of one's Experience in the Here and Now.
There is not much love, joy or happiness to be found in the 3rd State. It is a state of dissatisfaction and pain, interspersed with fleeting moments of being pleased when external circumstances fall into place for the person. Life is fundamentally unsatisfactory and often painful in the 3rd State of Consciousness.
Above, all there is no Permanent Center of BEing, of "I." The Awareness of Self that is the prime characteristic of the 4th State is mostly extinguished in the storms and turbulence of the psycanic universe, and the turbulence of that universe creates turbulence in the person's physical universe, including problems and conflicts with others, and health problems.
The 3rd State gives us the illusion that we are awake and aware—and that illusion is part of how it traps us. The standard human being not only thinks s/he is awake, s/he believes that s/he is at the "top of the food chain." As s/he looks around, certainly no animal has a higher level of Consciousness, of BEing. Thus, s/he feels that s/he has it made.
4th State: Permanent Self Awareness, Objective Consciousness of Self
Also known as the Awakened State, Enlightenment, Self-Remembering, Self-Observation, Witness. In Zen, this state is called Satori; in Taoism: Wu-Wei (emptiness, no-mind).
In this state, the person is awake and aware of the Self, of "I," as a distinct entity separate from mind and all human identities. In this state, the person maintains consciousness of Self at every moment, as well as objective, non-identified, unattached, awareness of hir Experience, both psycanic (identities, thoughts, emotions) and physical. This is the state of the development of a Permanent Center of Self, of "I, which is always present, awake, and aware of Self, no matter the turbulence of the psycanic or the physical universes.
This is a state of no-mind, of out-of-mind, of silent mind. The person is in control of hir attention at all times and consciously directs and holds it where s/he will. The mind is turned off (unless needed for creation or directing action), and the person lives in the direct, pre-mind experience of Life, which is always the Here and Now. The 4th State BEing has "blown hir mind" and now lives "out of hir mind."
The 4th State transcends the fears and resistances to life that are characteristic of the 3rd State. Resistance is the only cause of pain and suffering. The 4th State person does not resist any event in Life, not even hir own death. Thus s/he does not generate the negative emotion = resistances that are the only pain and suffering that exist. S/He flows with life and is attached to no particular outcome, so that whatever happens is an interesting experience: it is the next scene in the movie of hir visit to earth. Thus, a 4th State person transcends suffering and lives in SPace, serenity, harmony, love, and joy.
5th State: Samadhi
As there is no name for this level in English, we will use the Hinduism term for it: "Samadhi." Samadhi is your first, full experience of returning to the ONE. It is a union, a merger, back into the First UNIVERSE, into the ONE INFINITE CONSCIOUSNESS CREATOR LOVE BLISS BEING.
Samadhi is usually achieved only after thousands of hours of practice of penetration and discreation. You must go behind, or beyond, or out of, both the psycanic and the physical universes. There most be total, absolute stillness on all states. There can be no mind or other deviation of attention whatsoever into either universe. Thus, it is usually first achieved in a meditative state in which all experience of the other two universes is transcended.
6th State: Unity Consciousness
As you progress in your expansion of Identity, of BEing, recuperation of the TOTALITY of yourSELF, and RE-Integration to the ONE, the state of Samadhi gradually strengthens and lengthens so that it becomes your normal full time state, including while using your mind and/or focused externally in the physical universe. Thus, the experience of ONEness with and LOVE for all that exists becomes the your experience all the time, even while moving about normally in daily life.
In the 6th State, you have your individuality, but at the same time live in, not just the intellectual understanding, but the experience of ONEness and the BLISS of LOVE for everybody and everything all the time. You constantly and fully communicate with the ONE and know the divine purpose for everything. You know that the happiness and eternal life of every BEing is in the long run absolutely assured.
But even this state is not the final one possible. Separated, personal individuality can merge and fade until only the identity of ONE remains, which is the 7th State. However, some BEings choose to remain in this 6th state, even for all eternity. You are free to do as you please.
7th State: Cosmic Consciousness
In this state, you have merged all individuality back into the ONE. There is no duality whatsoever. The ONE has awakened with full consciousness of SELF within the creation, which is now also experienced as SELF. Your former individuality is now the same as all other individualities: one more of the infinite experiences of IT of ITSELF. This state is called Nirvana in Buddhism, and is the state from which Jesus Christ said: "Who has seen me has seen the Father. The Father and I are ONE." This is God awake and walking the planet.
When enough of humanity (maybe as little as 5%) reaches the 6th and 7th States, all of humanity will pulled up and infused with more Consciousness, so that all of humanity awakens to being God Awake on the planet. Humanity will move into a golden age of love and cooperation beyond our imagination.
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