Consciousness
Consciousness
The first seven states are from the Handbook to Higher Consciousness by Ken Keyes JR
This Center makes you preoccupied with food, shelter, or what-
ever you equate with your personal security. This programming
forces your consciousness to be dominated by your continuous
battle to get "enough" from the world in order to feel secure.
2. THE SENSATION CENTER.
This Center is concerned with finding happiness in life by provid-
ing yourself with more and better pleasurable sensations and ac-
tivities. For many people, sex is the most appealing of all sensa-
tions. Other addictive sensations may include the sound of music,
the taste of food, etc.
3. THE POWER CENTER.
When your consciousness is focused on this Center, you are con-
cerned with dominating people and situations and increasing your
prestige, wealth, and pride-in addition to thousands of more
subtle forms of hierarchy, manipulation, and control.
Comments:
The next 3 centers are easier to experience with an understanding of the universe and meditation. Through studying nature, biology and evolution we see that we are all necessary parts of the same entity. Through meditation we let go of our separateness and forgive ourselves and others. We eventually learn that there is nothing to forgive only lessons to be learned in our inexorable movement toward a happier existence.
4. THE LOVE CENTER.
At this Center you are transcending subject-object relationships
and are learning to see the world with the feelings and harmonies
of flowing acceptance. You see yourself in everyone-and
everyone in yourself. You feel compassion for the suffering of
those caught in the dramas of security, sensation, and power. You
are beginning to love and accept everyone unconditionally-even
yourself.
5. THE CORNUCOPIA CENTER.
When your consciousness is illuminated by this Center, you ex-
perience the friendliness of the world you are creating. You begin
to realize that you've always lived in a perfect world. To the de-
gree that you still have addictions, the perfection lies in giving you
the experience you need to get free of your emotion-backed de-
mands. As you reprogram your addictions, the perfection will be
rienced as a continuous enjoyment of the here and now in
your life. As you become more loving and accepting, the world
becomes a "horn of plenty" that gives you more than you need to
be happy.
6. THE CONSCIOUS-AWARENESS CENTER.
It is liberating to have a Center from which your Conscious-
areness watches your body and mind perform on the lower five
centers. This is a meta-center from which you non-judgmentally
witness the drama of your body and mind. From this Center of
Centers, you learn to impartially observe your social roles and
life games from a place that is free from fear and vulnerability.
7. THE COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS CENTER.
When you live fully in the Sixth Center of Consciousness, you are
ready to transcend self-awareness and become pure awareness.
At this ultimate level, you are one with everything-you are love,
peace, energy, beauty, wisdom, clarity, effectiveness, and one-
ness.