LEVELS IN THE EVOLUTION OF SELF-AWARENESS

 
   
   
     
   
 
     
 

RISING CONSCIOUSNESS
Consciousness appears in minute sparks in the hidden inner dimension of the simplest living things. If there is anything going on between a creature's experience of the world and its responses, that is mind, that is consciousness. And mind has evolved. The levels that consciousness evolves through are: recognition, perception and association, representation, centred experience, the beginnings of self-reflection, mindfulness, absorption, non-dual insight, and enlightenment.

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