Source Code Meditation by Michael Cotton

Author:Michael Cotton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Spirituality/Meditation
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Published: 2018-04-28T04:00:00+00:00

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Enlightenment States

Your ordinary everyday consciousness is a particular ‘state’ of consciousness. However it is not the only state of consciousness available to you. You have been in a dream state during sleep, possibly a drunk state after consuming too many adult beverages, a euphoric state from falling in love or having a child etc. ‘States’ can be accessed or experienced from any of the Life Altitudes (addressed in more detail later). Based on the appropriate conditions one can experience temporary states of consciousness from any level or altitude of psychological/spiritual development.

However there is also a sequential unfolding of states of consciousness that provide a shift in our very self-identity. Source Code Meditation and the 9 Summits of Transformation provide the tools to cultivate this sequential unfolding of higher shifts in our self-identity.

These enlightenment states, or sequential shifts in inner experience, progress beyond ordinary everyday consciousness – where your Self is identified with the material realm and feels exclusively identified with your mind and body. This everyday ordinary experience is called the gross state or ego self-identity. This ego self-identity is how most people experience the world most of the time. However, the esoteric branches of the great wisdom traditions have a long history and cartography of a sequential unfolding and shifting of self-identity into higher and deeper states of consciousness. These states of enlightened consciousness unfold as shifts in self-identity from ego to soul to spirit (Transcendent Self) to Non-Dual (Unitary).

It is important to note that through cultivation and development into these higher states one includes, but no longer exclusively identifies with, the previous self-identity once it is transcended. In other words the ego doesn’t disappear when we find our soul, it just takes a back seat and the soul doesn’t disappear when we find we are absolute spirit.

A good way to understand these shifts in identity, until they are experienced directly, is to understand how that which is aware in you becomes more expansive. The observer in you, that which is aware, loosens its exclusive identity with how it sees the world, dis-identifies itself with that smaller more constricted self-identity and steps into a deeper wider self-identity, that feels more real than the previous self.

Each of these enlightenment states of consciousness have advanced physiologic correlates in the higher brain as well as subtle energy or ‘energy body’ correlates. So, of particular import is to understand that to experience any of these advanced states of enlightenment consciousness and ultimately shift our self-identity we must be able to shift our brain physiology accordingly.

Of particular importance is to not get too caught up in the ‘maps’ I am providing. The SalutoGenic mechanisms, the spheres of subtle energy around your body, the Enlightenment states (State of consciousness) Life Altitudes and Epochs of consciousness and culture we will discover in more detail later in this book, have all been laid out for you in a neat sequential unfolding. And this sequential unfolding model is accurate, however in real life it is far from a neat linear process.

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