Lesson 21: The Four States of Consciousness

What Must Be Taught

  1. Explain the four states of consciousness:
    • EIKASIA (sleep): Ignorance, human cruelty, instinctive and brutal world.
    • PISTIS (vigil): Beliefs, prejudices, sectarianism, fanaticisms.
    • DANOIA (self-conscience): intellectual Review of beliefs, analysis, conceptual synthesis.
    • NOUS (objective consciousness): Perfect awake conscience.
  2. To make emphasis in that a state of awake conscience should be maintained: Self-consciousness.
  3. To deepen the aspect of the IDENTIFICATION and of FASCINATION as decisive causes for the dream of the conscience (Aspects mentioned in lesson number three of First basic Chamber).

Practice

  • Observer and Observed.
  • Key SOL: Subjet, object, location. Remembering oneself.

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