The Eternal Moment Bookstore – Toronto

some of mine:
If I am conscious of what I am doing, how can I tell the difference from knowing exactly my actions from what is impulsive? If I am aware of my instincts, what does it mean to be able to do something spontaneous?

If self-growth means to look within oneself, how will society affects who we are? Should society affect our "self" behavior and change our "self" behavior?

just some of my thoughts. do you have any answer to them? what are yours?

Even if you are conscience of what you are doing that doesn’t mean your able to stop the action once its in motion. Whether your not aware or not willing to look ahead enough to see the outcome doesn’t matter in affairs of the heart. The hearts behavior comes from past experience, the behavior is based on emotions from learned feelings or the gut feelings that come from experience that we aren’t aware of on a conscience level, these can come from past experiences that you were to young to remember or even past lives!

When emotions are driving you, they override the navigation system your mind provides and the hearts emotions move so fast that your mind doesn’t have time to take back control!
Self growth is exactly that…self growth…if that includes what you have learned from society and had allowed you to improve on yourself that’s great but if society is dragging your self awareness into a structure that takes away your personal thoughts needs or feelings then the society is having a negative affect and your self growth needs to include getting away from following society’s thoughts and getting to your true self’s needs!
EDIT-Thoughts about or even the understanding that what your doing isnt good for you isn’t always strong enough to stop the emotions that drive the actions. We have things we need to learn, our soul learns from the our actions….our heart drives our soul, so our heart will make us stumble so we can pick ourselves up and try again! Ever seen the analogy of the rock rolling down the hill and with every hit it takes the rough edges get worn down and broken off until the surface of the rock is smoother….that is our soul, and our heart keeps us rolling down the hill and our mind will try to navigate….and sometimes its good and we miss the bumps and sometimes our souls desire to learn, grow and evolve wont allow our mind to protect us and we take the hit even if we see it coming! Just my opinion, so don’t be too hard on yourself when you stumble because if you learn from it, you really haven’t lost more than you’ve gained.

i wonder if we have true soul mates or if all soulmates are just people we have karma with for good or bad and are these people chosen for you or if you can create karma with someone in an attempt to create better soulmates for your next lifetime….

Does acquiring a higher level of self-consciousness lead to experience a higher degree of self-suffering?

im 13 now
and last year
as many students at this age are
i was very self-consious and always
felt like i had to be more- wht cool was a popular
and it karma’d me

not caring bout tht stuff anymore
i feel happier
and joyful bout my life- and bout the people that liek me

just saying XP

i thnk it does

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Are there any actual different states of consciousness other than conscious and unconscious? Are "higher states of consciousness" or "waking up to an ultimate reality" just ways of saying more efficient brain processing?

This is a big subject
The answere is YES
Seven States of Consciousness
1.Waking
2.Dreaming (REM sleep)
3.Dreamless Sleep (non- REM)
4.Transcendental Consciousness (TC)
5.Cosmic Consciousness (CC)
6.Glorified State of Cosmic Consciousness (GC)
7.Unified State of Cosmic Consciousness (UC)

Men seem to just want sex from women, like animals do. Animals just live for sex, kind of like men.

Now women care about the man and are capable of love. I have never witnessed a man love a woman. I mean he’ll support her and be affectionate because he wants sex but it’s never love.

Let me guess, not much experience with men? Men are just as capable of love as women. Men don’t just want sex, you are just too worthless to provide anything more.

Hmm-hmm?
@Loosey™. Now I’m confused.
Higher consciousness in a nutshell has to do with what has been touched on by some of you, but more structured and scientific in its application to achieve certain targeted altered states for an express purpose. More or less.
@froufrou. Straight from God’s lips.

Not the great body of scientists. They’re struggling to come to terms with their own ignorance as it is. The ‘great break through’ will come when several unrelated scientists from different locations come to the same realization at the same time.

Also, any huge enquiry requires funding. The people who fund research into these things don’t do it unless there’s something in it for them. As we’re dealing with spirit, the door is closed to the old ways.

Higher states of consciousness can only be achieved when time and rationality are put aside. Being that this is the foundation of science today , it’s only logical that several independent scientists coming out has to be the way before real science takes hold.

Few people have the perspicacity to see it, but science as it is today is just another form of religion.

The new science will not be able to tolerate the old. It is too rigid and turgid and stuck in the past. The old science is too fearful of the new.

The dawn of real science is upon us. Unfortunately this also means a lot of confusion and upheaval as the old worldview structures will not be broken up easily.

It is a major contributing factor, along with Introspection, Observation, Visualization, and Concentration (the other four "keys")

network?

I have a very high level of consciousness but there are unintended consequences. Some of my wild thoughts have escaped and are loose in the yahoo community. They are very sexually aggressive and adult males are in the most danger. Lately they seem to be swinging both ways. Some of the people who have seen my wild thoughts have reported them to the yahoo authorities. If you are a fan of wild thoughts and you happen to see one of mine loose just e-mail me and we can decide what we can do with it. My wild thoughts will not be going away anytime soon. There is just an overcrowding in my mind zoo.

and elaborate, please.
and please, if you will, tell me how taking a hallucinogenic drug is by any means is an insight to a high consciousness opposed to just simply being on drugs.

"higher" and "lower" imply value judgments, so lets avoid them.

You are familiar with the "beer goggles" phenomenon, I am assuming? A man suddenly finds a woman attractive that he normally wouldn’t – this is because he *does* genuinely find that woman attractive, but he must first get out of touch with the standards he has been inundated with since childhood in order to realize that.

And, as soon as be sobers up, those forced standards come rushing back and he no longer "officially" finds her attractive. Odd that his penis and brain where telling him otherwise last night, huh?

Well, what other stuff are we unable to objectively evaluate because we’ve trained ourselves to consider certain potentially false assumptions to be set in stone?

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