Lesson 3: Awakening of the Consciousness

Consciousness: is the ability to receive immediate knowledge without thinking.

“ego” is the subconscious.

We must learn to activate our free Consciousness.

  • If we do not use it, it is as if we do not have it.
  • Awakening is to put into practice our free Consciousness.

1. Sleep

Is the state that the physical body is asleep and the Consciousness is absorbed in dreams.

  • There is no control, no logic or coherence.
  • In this state we can know nothing, neither about ourselves nor about the world.
  • It is a state of subjective projections in which external stimuli do not reach our Consciousness, and if they do, they are transformed into imaginary shapes and dreams.

2. Vigilance

The body is awake and operating but the Consciousness continues to sleep.

  • It is actually a state, not of wakefulness, but of sleepwalking: sleeping with eyes open
  • When the physical body wakes up we don’t see dreams because of the impressions we receive from the senses, but we continue to dream.
  • It is a subjective situation in which everyone has their own opinions, views, beliefs, theories, etc. There is no common truth.

3. Self-awareness

Self-awareness is a state in which we are self-aware, we remember ourselves (self-remembering).

  • It comes on its own only in rare and very short moments.
  • It is achieved by properly associating Consciousness with the environment and the physical body.
  • To provoke this situation and stabilize it requires special training and discipline.

4. Objective Consciousness

It is a state of perfect enlightenment, complete awakening and complete absence of the “ego”.

  • In this state man knows Reality as it is, the Truth.
  • It is the state of the Great Masters.
  • In order to reach the 4th state, we must first establish the 3rd stage within us.

The sleep of Consciousness occurs in 3 stages:

  1. Identification: To identify is to equate with something.
  2. Fascination: Other things no longer exist, there is only what fascinates us.
  3. Sleep: When this condition becomes even deeper, the person falls asleep.

Practice: The Key S.O.L.

It is a technique to provoke the state of Self-Consciousness.

Subject

  • “Who am I?”
  • We remember ourselves, we feel our body, our inner Being.

Object

  • “What am I doing now?”
  • We realize what we are doing now, we do not identify with what we do, or with what happens, we experience the event consciously.
  • Many times we do not realize what we are doing: we do something but we think of other things and our Consciousness is absent.

Location

  • “Where am I?”
  • We realize the place we are now.
  • We observe the place as if it is very strange, as if we are there for the first time.
  • The Key of Distinction: “Where am I? am I in the physical or in the astral world?”

We do not answer any of the 3 questions mentally

The 3 Characteristics of Consciousness

  • Duration — How long have we been conscious?
  • Frequency — How often we remembered ourselves?
  • Range — What were we conscious of?