We can be busy and successful professionals such as doctors and lawyers, surgeons and scientists, and run sophisticated businesses, and have organized families, we can be artists, and even be professors of religion and mysticism, and all we need to succeed in these fields, is this second level of experiencing Consciousness, which is the next level after sleeping at night.
At this second level of experiencing Consciousness, there is only provocation from the outside. At this level, we only try to pay attention to a task such as our job or whatever it is that needs our attention, or we can say that we try not to fall asleep when we need to pay attention. But at this second level, we always ignore the experience of Consciousness itself and
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We get glimpses of a higher experience of Consciousness when it is provoked from outside, as for example, if we see something very beautiful. Sometimes we are provoked into a spiritual experience when we see something new or strange, or in moments of deep love or deep understanding. Sometimes deep emotional suffering, perhaps about important relationships or a loss of someone, can provoke a higher spiritual experience of Consciousness. But in those moments, for the person who has no spiritual purpose, the emotion and the higher experience of Consciousness is not valued or even noticed, and the spiritual experience disappears after the provocation. Only what provoked the spiritual experience is important to the person who does not value higher experiences of …show more content…
We may be developing professionally or at doing whatever we practice doing, but we are not developing ourselves, which is our intellectual-emotional mind, by our intellect paying attention to the experience of Consciousness and our intensified emotions by will maintaining that experience. When we are talking about developing our intellectual-emotional mind, it is through having more will to pay attention to the experience of Consciousness and being emotional about