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 Consciousness development: a multi-stage process
Consciousness can be defined in the most simplistic way as being aware of all your experiences, at corporeal level as well as emotional level. Humans, just like some of the intelligent animals, are endowed with a dose of consciousness, but only the human beings have the potential to develop consciousness at superior level. Consciousness development can be either a skill that we learn voluntarily, either a natural shift within us that comes at some point as a result of certain experiences. Either way, consciousness development is a means of enriching and enlightening our life.
The starting point in consciousness development is the one where we reach awareness. It is said that the state specific to most of the humans is similar to being asleep. In “The Shadows of Ideas”, professor Jacob Neddleman points out that we live with the illusion that we are in full control of our lives and that we have the freedom of choice, when the truth is that we barely feel ourselves even physically. Everything we do lacks contact with our consciousness and it is not before awakening that consciousness development becomes possible. But unlike after our night sleep, this awakening takes place gradually.
That’s why consciousness development has been seen as a process, including several stages called differently depending on the approach but grouping around four turning points: the deep sleep mentioned above, the awakening starting point when we have a sense of being part of something more meaningful; the intensification of the awareness of our experiences and the reinforcement of their link to our consciousness; the moment where our consciousness development reaches a higher level.
Eastern tradition has identified seven stages of the consciousness development process, which are called bodies and which are basically sequences of the four stages described above. These bodies are the following:
1.The physical body: characterized by awareness of the physical existence but lack of concern for anything that goes beyond.
2.The energy body is also called the emotional body and equals with the consciousness development stage where we become aware of something beyond our flash and blood.
3.The astral body is typical to the first state of meditation when we actually feel connected to something beyond the physical presence.
4.The mental body is an enhanced astral body, filled with more energy and light. It is comparable to the inspirational mood of artists.
5. The enlightenment body goes beyond the human mind. It replaces energy with deep calmness and warmth.
6.The cosmic body consists in identification with the void that exists beyond everything.
7.Nirvana or moksha is the ultimate freedom and stage of consciousness development, where highly spiritual beliefs like for example reincarnation become possible.
Another interesting approach to the consciousness development suggests that consciousness arises at the end of three-phases process:
1.The single pulsed phase: when humans are only experiencing
2.The dual-pulsed phase: when they become aware of what they are experiencing
3.The triple-pulsed phase: when what they observe from their experiences becomes part of knowing
Regardless of the multitude of approaches, the truth is that consciousness development is a part of our evolution as human beings and therefore it is worth putting all the efforts in it.
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