Refelction 9

While reading Transformation: Awareness and Consciousness, you get the sense of trying to understand personal and cultural knowledge. It’s tough to understand if one does not have an open mind to the complexity of the reading. I had a hard time trying to understand it myself. To simplify it, I broke it down to simple definitions and explanations of my own .Awareness are complicated to explain. For example, you can’t really explain what life is or what electricity itself looks like or is. So what is it to be aware? I think awareness is like wakefulness. You are on your guard and your senses are high. You know and feel what is around you and that is what makes you “aware” of your surroundings. Bing Aware is a fundamental part of being a superior observer. Doctors, like a man named Chopra, Say that awareness is like a force field or energy field that is unseen but it is felt when present. Then things get complicated. The reading starts to intertwine Quantum mechanics and physics into the definition of awareness. This immensely complicated science was studied by great men like Albert Einstein and Neils Bohr. To them, both energy and matter are particle and wave based. This means that anything subatomic can be seen with an advanced microscope. But awareness cannot be seen? Or can it. Consciousness is not the same as having awareness. Consciousness is sort of like a level of awareness. One can be conscious and unconscious. But at some point between you enter awareness. Conscious is mental and awareness is not mental. It does not require you to use your mind to feel surroundings. Creature consciousness, transitive consciousness and state consciousness are some subdivisions to a greater explanation of consciousness. From here on out the reading gets a little more complex. To a man named Wilson, we have 8 different levels of consciousness. I found two of them rather interesting. For example, on level 0, our bodies become paralyzed and we drift into the dreaming state of mind. On level 6, called transcendent level, we begin to connect higher in the awareness scale. The experience is mind blowing and makes you feel as you have reached a euphoric state of mind. At this point you feel successful and as though nothing can stop you. I liked reading this because it got me to see a point of view of something I have never really been interested in. It is amazing to see the different types of opinions and the same exact subject.