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THE POSSIBILITIES OF HIGHER
CONSCIOUSNESS
To a scientific materialist, consciousness or mind is merely a by-product of physio-chemical processes and the behavioral acts that an individual happens to engage in. But to a spiritualist or religious mystịc; such as Guruji, consciousness and especially higher states of consciousness constitute the most real and prior basis for things appearing as they do. In this story, which is actually a composite of three separate experiences linked by higher or supernormal states of consciousness-Guruji describes what happened when he journeyed to different places and put himself in the receptive attitude for higher consciousness.
T here have been many times when I have experi
1 enced the energy and forms of higher consciousness in my life. I want to describe three times when the powers and possibilities of my consciousness became evident to me as well as other people.
The first time occurred when I was giving a lecture in Ujjain, India, to a large audience of religious people. During the lecture I became conscious of Lord Parsva, one of the great teachers of our cycle of time in Jainism, and I felt a tingling sensation that remained during my
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