The book I'm working on right now is on relationships -- about how we can use our relationships as paths to consciousness.
This is where the authors' neuroevolutionary path to human consciousness begins.
Paradoxically, it was an act of unprecedented terror that put this 13-year-old suburbanite on another path to religious consciousness.
Sai Baba stressed the importance of surrender to the guidance of the true Satguru or Murshid, who, having gone the path to divine consciousness himself, will lead the disciple through the jungle of spiritual training.
The "personal" computer was now seen as a path to individualism; communal consciousness would arise from the new connectedness of online life.
Of the three, Tibetan Buddhism is probably the most difficult and exotic path, with its emphasis on prostrations, visualizations, guru worship and deity yoga, in which the practitioner identifies with Tibetan deities as a path to higher states of consciousness.
The TM technique is a path to higher states of consciousness by cultivating the mind to "self referral". Through the process of transcending -- taking the mind from its gross, active level to it's most silent, expansive, innermost level, beyond the finest activity of the thinking process -- the self awakens to its own nature.
Whatever you think of Paul Ryan and his stream-of-consciousness pseudo-budget "The Path to Prosperity," it's a major re-engineering of America as we know it, and that ranks it in the category of big ideas.
And that perspective -- that coal is the essential, unavoidable path to prosperity -- has sunk deeply into Asia's consciousness.
The whole essence of the inner journey pushes him to evolve, to expand his consciousness and awareness to go further down the path to new territory.
