Consciousness: . . . a new approach

Consciousness is the source of life on earth and yet our understanding of consciousness is inadequate. We know something about the brain and the functioning of mind but we do not understand the nature of awareness and the pure feeling of being alive. This ignorance of consciousness constitutes a self-limitation which creates personal difficulty and conflict in the world. In a direct approach, the author investigates the nature of his own consciousness, and finds that individual, global and universal consciousness are different expressions of a single fundamental reality. This realisation creates the opening for a wide-ranging self-transformation which transcends personal limitation. It is a dramatic and life changing work. CONTENTS PART I INDIVIDUAL CONSCIOUSNESS What Does It Mean to Be Human? What Is Consciousness? The Scientific Approach; The Direct Approach; The Turning Point; Transition - When 'I' Become Conscious; Egocentric Man - Terracentric Universe; A Great Duality; A Singular Individual; The Polarity Grid; The Hierarchy of Consciousness. PART II GLOBAL CONSCIOUSNESS Changing the World; What Can We Change? How Can We Change? The Change Cycle. PART III UNIVERSAL CONSCIOUSNESS The Power of Consciousness; The Problem of Atheism; The Problem of Religion; The Purpose of Religion; The Universal Mind; The Source of the Self; Finding the Self; Accepting the Self; The Power of Image; Can We Walk in Beauty, or Not? The Realisation of Life; A Personal Completion.