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THE FOURTHWAY MANHO E-JOURNAL Volume 85 November 6, 2019 |
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ON CONSCIOUSNESS By Professor Dr. Tan Man-Ho (An excerpt from the original work, Real World Views, Book 13 by Professor Dr. Tan Man-Ho entitled "Principles of the Logico-Psychophilosophical Methods in its Application to Problems of the Real World", March 1982 ~ September 1983 Discourses, Chapter 3, Section B : "On Consciousness" pp. 90 ~ 93)
B. ON CONSCIOUSNESS 1
Man is differently conscious. It is
the moment's sphere of consciousness that makes him talk about a subject
matter. 2
The worthy consciousness to dwell in is
the objective consciousness. All other mechanical and habitual
consciousness are but subjective drops that arise accidentally. You
cannot avoid them even for a second. 3
That consciousness which is directed
outwards into the First World
and seldom directed inwards into the
Second World is the consciousness of the
extrovert. That consciousness which is directed inward into the
Second World
and forms the Third World
is the consciousness of the introvert. The consciousness of the
mechanical men is either inward or outward, the two directions cannot exist
at once. It is either/or. It is dualist in nature. But
both can still occur mechanically. 4
Experience is a result of consciousness
remembering its own historical-psychological path. Consciousness is
capable of remembering its own passage and goes back into the past by
bringing the past into the present as its conscious subject matter. 5
When there is esoteric consciousness for
man on earth in a certain historical period, there is a possibility of
esoteric groups. As the group grows in size, it gradually loses its
esotericity. Its decline begins as soon as it organizes. This
would rapidly turn into a Confusion of the Tongue. 6
Hidden behind one ray of consciousness
there may be another and so on and so forth. Unless consciousness in
the flesh of man is raised to a very high level, the real world can never be
known even if there existed many books and creations done by the conscious
man of the past. 7
They are in the consciousness and the
states; they also have not yet pass through other states; that is why they
cannot recognize the states and produce the states which they are not.
Every state for them is chance presence and it only happens by itself; and
chance contact of the state with another different state, they cannot
understand it but however they can sense the difference vaguely. 8
The table of the states of consciousness
is shown below: Between sleep and awake there is a preparatory
period or transition period. In real sleep, the passenger, the
coachman, the horse and the carriage are truly asleep and do not communicate
with one another. When waking-up is about to happen, one of the four
bodies begins to be active. It begins to establish contacts and
communicate with the other bodies. Gradually two bodies become active,
then three and finally four. And we are ready to wake-up. This
preparatory period may take from 5 to 15 minutes in normal case.
Sleep-awake (5-15 minutes). In practice, before one wakes up one must really
allow the preparatory work to begin. Do not hurriedly jump out from
the bed. Spend some time, for this preparatory work. Make slow
movements first, for all the four bodies, then bigger movements, etc.
And finally, wake-up.
T1, T2 and T3 are the Transition Periods
9
The Seven-Cycles of Consciousness per day:
There are four main states of consciousness but they occur in cycles for an
ordinary man as well as the higher man within a day. Sleep – Awake
cycle with brief excursion to the level of Self-Consciousness occurs mainly
for ordinary man within a diurnal day with the sleep state mostly at night
and the sleep-wake state during the day. The state of
self-consciousness occurs only occasionally when there is a danger or when a
person is gripped by fear. Objective-consciousness occurs only for higher man
who has gone through conscious labor and intentional suffering or the WORK.
Only he is able to maintain this higher state for more hours during his
diurnal day when compared to ordinary man.
ON CONSCIOUSNESS CYCLE
The 'Do' of the next cycle (Micro-God or
the Enlightened One - The man who never sleep!) Objective consciousness
10
In mental culture, it is the Conscious-I which
leads and guides the knowledge (Jana). Objective consciousness cannot
be retained for long if the physical body is not healthy. 11
The consciousness of an individual man is however
only one drop of all the scattered consciousness in the body of our Most
Respected Universe. The universe's upper department expects us to do
the job well there.
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