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CHAPTER 1
HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS
Higher or cosmic consciousness is a state of awareness that connects the spiritual. Self of the individual with the vastness and infinity of the universe. There are many ways that the experience of higher or universal awareness can be awakened. The following group of stories express and describe the energy of higher consciousness in interrelated ways to everyday life.
It is important to remember that consciousness is not an ordinary object in the world. In fact, it is no-thing at all or as some Buddhists say, it is a pure nothingness. Yet in these stories, Guruji experiences the changes in his consciousness as quite real. And this is the crucial difference: when consciousness is experienced as higher, lower, or altered, there is always the subjective knower connected to it, making it quite other than a mere nothingness.
In philosophical circles, there has been a little known debate raging for years over whether consciousness can be said to exist at all. For Guruji, there was never any question about the reality of consciousness and its power to move the world and get things done. Keep this in mind when reading about some of Guruji's first experiences and experiments with consciousness. It is a metaphor, like an apple tree, that can bear real fruit.
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