This is a thread I'd really like to make as I consider it to be one of the most vital of the spiritual teachings you can come accross and it also spans across all religions and belief systems. You won't come accross anything about this in exoteric Christian texts, at least not literally spelled out, it probably has the most in common with the Eastern type faiths.
I first came accross this when I was 17 and had just started studying philosophy and religion as the Agnostic/Atheist mindset I'd subscribed to for some time just didn't resonate with me anymore and I felt there had to be more to it than that. I found a book written by a Theosophy inspired Danish writer who wrote about a gradual development of consciousness throughout many lifetimes on Earth and found it completely fascinating.
I have it stored quite well in my memory so I will just see what I can dig out. I just did Yoga so I'm energised and good for receiving inspiration.
The 7 States of Consciousness
There is also a system that uses 12 states, corresponding to the 12 chakras, but I think the first 7 are more than enough for most.
The 1st Level of Consiousness
This state is purely survival-driven and someone who functions completely out of this state, and the root center, will be focused on their own survival to the detrimitent of anything else. The emphasis here is on self-maintainence, self-protection, and also attacks of others as it's very fear-driven. More predatory nature, and can be quite evil, as higher impulses like love and consciousness aren't activated yet.
Someone here works pretty much as an animal. Very primitive, and can get very violent, rage/aggression has an important part to play here. Focus is on securing the basis needs of life and there is a very strong focus on this, to the extent that nothing else hardly registers in the consciousness. Food, shelter, resources, pro-creation, one's own children as an extention of oneself, social status, and leadership.
This pretty much sums the 1st consciousness level person up. There aren't really many pure types like these who aren't moderated by higher consciousness states but there are a few. Many criminals are here, but more the ones who fall into crime as a way of life. Drugs are common as the ability to feel positive emotions is so limited in this low-consciousness state.
The 2nd Level of Consiousness
This corresponds with the sexual chakra and someone who have activated this chakra and reaches this consciousness level can also experience emotional pleasure from sexuality (not much love). It's the center for emotional pleasures and emotional highs. Any form of sensation will be sought after here.
So basically hedonism, and all kinds of pleasure-seeking activites preoccupies the person. Partying, socialising, sex, drugs, music, entertainment, material things, anything that's perceived as fun.
This center allows the individual to begin to enjoy life and not just act to fulfill primitive survival needs. But not much in the way of love, morals, or conscience here. It's still every man for himself and here individuals can also become quite evil, or at least indifferent to other people's pain, which is also a form of evil.
The 3rd Level of Consiousness
This is the level of the ego or solar plexus and someone here will start to develop a sense of self. While before they would act mostly subconsciously and without any awareness of themselves, how they presented themselves, or came accross to others, this comes very much into focus now.
Ambitious drive. Comparing yourself with others. It's through this level that you find yourself and start to gain indivduality and express an unique personaliy. When this chakra is weak, undeveloped, or blocked someone won't seem to have much identity and you will find it hard to separate them from the anyone else. While if they're strong here they can make a powerful impact and be unforgettable.
This is also the level of the average human being, probably most in the world are still at this level. It's pretty much the level of the average person who wants the normal basics of life. To socialise, make a family, make a carreer for themselves, etc. and live a good life. It doesn't go so far beyond this. But at this level the indivdual start to develop genuinly friendliness towards others.
The 4th Level of Consiousness
The fourth level is like a bridge between the lower and higher levels. It's first here people start to get a taste of higher consciousness experiences.
You will start to suspect there must be a God or a spiritual dimension to life, even if you don't understand it yet, and this is where people will begin a genuine start to search for some form of spiritual enlightenment.
This is also the level of the heart, and where you first will be given the ability to feel real love. Love very much becomes a focus, in all ways, also through the plant and animal kingdom. Someone becomes genuiny romantic and falls in love easily. The ability for sacrifice is also awakened here. Someone will also start feeling a deeper appreciation for art at this point, it's where the magic starts to happen.
The 5th Level of Consiousness
This is a higher version of the 4th. Only on this level those impulses and experiences will be much stronger, much more real, and also you will begin to really understand them.
Here you will have a form of direct experience of God and the spiritual world in a way that leaves you in no state of doubt or much confusion as to the reality of it. Genuine mystical and spiritual experiences are very commone here. Though this can be very hard to communicate with someone who haven't experienced the same.
The 5fth level also corrsponds with the throat center, which is the center for self-expression, language, truth, higher intellect, and creativity.
The 6th Level of Consiousness
Third eye activation happens here. It's where you start to develop psychic skills or what is seen as supernatural skills.
Clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, telpathy, remote viewing, astral travel, future prediction, etc.
This happens here but can be dangerous if it's developed too fast without a solit basis of emotional and mental stability and little self control or knowledge of what is happening. The 5 lower energy centres should be activated and balanced first or this could end up quite bad for a person.
This is supreme when it comes to higher inspiration, it makes it effortless and almost automatic, and also just quickly getting to the truth of any matter. Also great for artistic work as inspiration flows so powerfully.
The 7th Level of Consciousness
This is where you start to open up your the crown center, so you will be receiving the energy of the Creator down your crown, and can start to communicate with God from within. You receive internal thougts and impulses or energy experiences.
At first it might start out as a very thin thread, but with time ot will be widened until it makes up a very wide channel and even a whole column to emcompass you. Then you're really living with God. and you can live your life according to God's will, as God's will more and more become your will. From this point on life becomes very easy and you don't make any mistakes that can work against you any more.
This is full God identifciation/enlightenment and from this point you will be able to hear God in your heart at all times. You will be abe to hear his voice and for him to guide you when it comes both to the spiritual and physical world. You're being taught absolute truth from within when this state is reached and healing abilities are also awakened.
The way it generally works is that each chakra needs to be activated from the base and up as you move onto higher states. This doesn't mean that someone who reside on the 5th level will always have the lower chakras running harmoniously though.
They can have been blocked, de-activated, or imbalanced in some way. This sometimes happen when people want to focus on the higher states, so they can forget about the lower consciousness centres which are supposed to be the base and keep us stable and grounded. When you move upwards you should also find a way to integrate the lower consiousness levels and draw from them all.
This can cause different problems but more of a problem for the majority of humankind at this stage is that they haven't reached the higher levels yet and tend to be stuck in the 3 lower leves where they can't really see beyond the mundane life.
I first came accross this when I was 17 and had just started studying philosophy and religion as the Agnostic/Atheist mindset I'd subscribed to for some time just didn't resonate with me anymore and I felt there had to be more to it than that. I found a book written by a Theosophy inspired Danish writer who wrote about a gradual development of consciousness throughout many lifetimes on Earth and found it completely fascinating.
I have it stored quite well in my memory so I will just see what I can dig out. I just did Yoga so I'm energised and good for receiving inspiration.
The 7 States of Consciousness
There is also a system that uses 12 states, corresponding to the 12 chakras, but I think the first 7 are more than enough for most.
The 1st Level of Consiousness
This state is purely survival-driven and someone who functions completely out of this state, and the root center, will be focused on their own survival to the detrimitent of anything else. The emphasis here is on self-maintainence, self-protection, and also attacks of others as it's very fear-driven. More predatory nature, and can be quite evil, as higher impulses like love and consciousness aren't activated yet.
Someone here works pretty much as an animal. Very primitive, and can get very violent, rage/aggression has an important part to play here. Focus is on securing the basis needs of life and there is a very strong focus on this, to the extent that nothing else hardly registers in the consciousness. Food, shelter, resources, pro-creation, one's own children as an extention of oneself, social status, and leadership.
This pretty much sums the 1st consciousness level person up. There aren't really many pure types like these who aren't moderated by higher consciousness states but there are a few. Many criminals are here, but more the ones who fall into crime as a way of life. Drugs are common as the ability to feel positive emotions is so limited in this low-consciousness state.
The 2nd Level of Consiousness
This corresponds with the sexual chakra and someone who have activated this chakra and reaches this consciousness level can also experience emotional pleasure from sexuality (not much love). It's the center for emotional pleasures and emotional highs. Any form of sensation will be sought after here.
So basically hedonism, and all kinds of pleasure-seeking activites preoccupies the person. Partying, socialising, sex, drugs, music, entertainment, material things, anything that's perceived as fun.
This center allows the individual to begin to enjoy life and not just act to fulfill primitive survival needs. But not much in the way of love, morals, or conscience here. It's still every man for himself and here individuals can also become quite evil, or at least indifferent to other people's pain, which is also a form of evil.
The 3rd Level of Consiousness
This is the level of the ego or solar plexus and someone here will start to develop a sense of self. While before they would act mostly subconsciously and without any awareness of themselves, how they presented themselves, or came accross to others, this comes very much into focus now.
Ambitious drive. Comparing yourself with others. It's through this level that you find yourself and start to gain indivduality and express an unique personaliy. When this chakra is weak, undeveloped, or blocked someone won't seem to have much identity and you will find it hard to separate them from the anyone else. While if they're strong here they can make a powerful impact and be unforgettable.
This is also the level of the average human being, probably most in the world are still at this level. It's pretty much the level of the average person who wants the normal basics of life. To socialise, make a family, make a carreer for themselves, etc. and live a good life. It doesn't go so far beyond this. But at this level the indivdual start to develop genuinly friendliness towards others.
The 4th Level of Consiousness
The fourth level is like a bridge between the lower and higher levels. It's first here people start to get a taste of higher consciousness experiences.
You will start to suspect there must be a God or a spiritual dimension to life, even if you don't understand it yet, and this is where people will begin a genuine start to search for some form of spiritual enlightenment.
This is also the level of the heart, and where you first will be given the ability to feel real love. Love very much becomes a focus, in all ways, also through the plant and animal kingdom. Someone becomes genuiny romantic and falls in love easily. The ability for sacrifice is also awakened here. Someone will also start feeling a deeper appreciation for art at this point, it's where the magic starts to happen.
The 5th Level of Consiousness
This is a higher version of the 4th. Only on this level those impulses and experiences will be much stronger, much more real, and also you will begin to really understand them.
Here you will have a form of direct experience of God and the spiritual world in a way that leaves you in no state of doubt or much confusion as to the reality of it. Genuine mystical and spiritual experiences are very commone here. Though this can be very hard to communicate with someone who haven't experienced the same.
The 5fth level also corrsponds with the throat center, which is the center for self-expression, language, truth, higher intellect, and creativity.
The 6th Level of Consiousness
Third eye activation happens here. It's where you start to develop psychic skills or what is seen as supernatural skills.
Clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, telpathy, remote viewing, astral travel, future prediction, etc.
This happens here but can be dangerous if it's developed too fast without a solit basis of emotional and mental stability and little self control or knowledge of what is happening. The 5 lower energy centres should be activated and balanced first or this could end up quite bad for a person.
This is supreme when it comes to higher inspiration, it makes it effortless and almost automatic, and also just quickly getting to the truth of any matter. Also great for artistic work as inspiration flows so powerfully.
The 7th Level of Consciousness
This is where you start to open up your the crown center, so you will be receiving the energy of the Creator down your crown, and can start to communicate with God from within. You receive internal thougts and impulses or energy experiences.
At first it might start out as a very thin thread, but with time ot will be widened until it makes up a very wide channel and even a whole column to emcompass you. Then you're really living with God. and you can live your life according to God's will, as God's will more and more become your will. From this point on life becomes very easy and you don't make any mistakes that can work against you any more.
This is full God identifciation/enlightenment and from this point you will be able to hear God in your heart at all times. You will be abe to hear his voice and for him to guide you when it comes both to the spiritual and physical world. You're being taught absolute truth from within when this state is reached and healing abilities are also awakened.
The way it generally works is that each chakra needs to be activated from the base and up as you move onto higher states. This doesn't mean that someone who reside on the 5th level will always have the lower chakras running harmoniously though.
They can have been blocked, de-activated, or imbalanced in some way. This sometimes happen when people want to focus on the higher states, so they can forget about the lower consciousness centres which are supposed to be the base and keep us stable and grounded. When you move upwards you should also find a way to integrate the lower consiousness levels and draw from them all.
This can cause different problems but more of a problem for the majority of humankind at this stage is that they haven't reached the higher levels yet and tend to be stuck in the 3 lower leves where they can't really see beyond the mundane life.
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