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Exploring Consciousness
know a few locations and routes from one area to another. Then, as we navigate through the city again and again, the general map becomes ingrained and sinks into our system. Over a period of time discernment increases and we know the city thoroughly. Later while driving through a street we will immediately and effortlessly notice a new shop, or a building that has been renovated.
10. Similarly categorizing consciousness means establishing references in our field of consciousness and systematically exploring different levels and states of consciousness. These may at first appear like altered states, but through repeated sessions of PAM become utterly familiar. It becomes as if we had always known them, not just because they are now completely understood and categorized, but also because we realize that these states have always been with us in what used to be the subconscious and unconscious background of our Consciousness. In the process of purification this type of categorization helps in making the unconscious becomes conscious.
11.Though broadly we know these states of consciousness relate to the Kosas, when we want to categorize we require a methodology that is sufficiently pragmatic and scientific. But unlike other methods of scientific research where the scientist and his object are separate, in a study of states of consciousness the object and the subject are the same. The sadhaka is a scientist in spiritual realm and
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