IIP Consciousness Development Program: System developed by author Waldo Vierra, M.D., who founded the International Institute of Projectiology (IIP) in 1988 in Brazil. IIP defines projectiology as the science that studies the out-of-body experience as a tool for achieving self-awareness.

The program involves training in the management of bioenergy. potential benefits include: access to other planes of reality, amplification of the intellect, elimination of the fear of death, increase of psychic abilities, recall of past life experiences, and self-healing.

(See also: Consciousness Development Program, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

SEVEN LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS

1                             Elemental: Moon

2                             Mineral: Saturn

3                             Vegetable: Venus

4                             Animal: Mars

5                             Human: Mercury

6                             Demi-God: Jupiter

7                             7               God: Sun

(See also: SEVEN LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS, Magick, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul, )

Consciousness Revolution - N

New Age advocates call for a "consciousness revolution" a new way of looking at and experiencing life. The primary focus of the new consciousness is oneness with God, all mankind, the earth, and with the entire universe.

(See also: Consciousness Revolution, New Age, Body mind and Soul)

Alaya Consciousness

The fundamental consciousness of all sentient beings.

As defined by the Yogacara School, Alaya means the "storehouse", implying that this consciousness contains and preserves all past memories and potential psychic energy within its fold; it is the reservoir of all ideas, memories and desires and is also the fundamental cause of both Samsara and Nirvana.

 (See also: Alaya Consciousness, Buddhism, Body Mind and Soul)

Cosmic Consciousness - N

A spiritual and mystical perception that all in the universe is "one." To attain cosmic con-sciousness is to see the universe as God and God as the universe.

(See also: Cosmic Consciousness, New Age, Body mind and Soul)

Pure Consciousness:

See: Parashakti, Satchidananda, tattva.

(See also: Pure Consciousness, Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)

Siva consciousness: Sivachaitanya.

A broad term naming the experience or state of being conscious of Siva in a multitude of ways, such as in the five expressed in the following meditation.

-       Vital Breath: prana. Experience the inbreath and outbreath as Siva's will within your body. Become attuned to the ever-present pulse of the universe, knowing that nothing moves but by His divine will.

-       All Pervasive Energy: shakti. Become conscious of the flow of life within your body. Realize that it is the same universal energy within every living thing. Practice seeing the life energy within another's eyes.

-       Manifest Sacred Form: darshana. Hold in your mind a sacred form, such as Nataraja, Sivalinga or your satguru - who is Sadasiva - and think of nothing else. See every form as a form of our God Siva.

-       Inner Light: jyoti. Observe the light that illumines your thoughts. Concentrate only on that light, as you might practice being more aware of the light on a TV screen than of its changing pictures.

-       Sacred Sound: nada. Listen to the constant high-pitched ee sounding in your head. It is like the tone of an electrical transformer, a hundred tamburas distantly playing or a humming swarm of bees.

These five constitute the "Sivachaitanya Panchatantra," five simple experiences that bring the Divine into the reach of each individual. Sivachaitanya, of course, applies to deeper states of meditation and contemplation as well.

See: jnana, mind (five states of mind), Sivasayujya.

(See also: Siva consciousness, Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)

consciousness: Chitta or chaitanya.

1)    A synonym for mind-stuff, chitta; or

2)    the condition or power of perception, awareness, apprehension.

There are myriad gradations of consciousness, from the simple sentience of inanimate matter to the consciousness of basic life forms, to the higher consciousness of human embodiment, to omniscient states of superconsciousness, leading to immersion in the One universal consciousness, Parashakti. Chaitanya and chitta can name both individual consciousness and universal consciousness.

Modifiers indicate the level of awareness, e.g.,

-       vyashti chaitanya, "individual consciousness;"

-       buddhi chitta, "intellectual consciousness;"

-       Sivachaitanya, "God consciousness."

Five classical "states" of awareness are discussed in scripture:

1)    wakefulness (jagrat),

2)    "dream" (svapna) or astral consciousness,

3)    "deep sleep" (sushupti) or subsuperconsciousness,

4)    the superconscious state beyond (turiya "fourth") and

5)    the utterly transcendent state called turiyatita ("beyond the fourth").

See: awareness, chitta, chaitanya, mind (all entries).

(See also: Consciousness, Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)

Consciousness- Raising

Inspiring radical spiritual awareness in self or others.

(See also: Consciousness- Raising, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

Christ Consciousness

The spiritual and mystical experience of the unity of all the universe. To attain cosmic consciousness is to see the universe as God and God as the universe, and everything as part of this whole.

(See also: Christ Consciousness, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

Atomic Consciousness

World consciousness, omniscience (in that world) does not mean that the individual knows everything about everything that is or happens. But it is possible for him to find out more or less quickly everything he wishes to know, independently of space and past time in a given world, to ascertain all relations in the three aspects (matter, motion, and consciousness) of that world.

(See also: Atomic Consciousness, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

Active Consciousness

The ability of consciousness to let dynamis act through it. The self-active consciousness that becomes possible through evolution.

Having active consciousness the monads themselves initiate their consciousness expressions. In the vegetable and animal kingdoms this activation occurs in groups (through group-souls). In the human kingdom consciousness becomes more and more self-active

(See also: Active Consciousness, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

Actualized Consciousness

Awakened, functioning consciousness. Actualized consciousness goes through different degrees of activation: passive, active, self-active.

(See also: Actualized Consciousness, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

planetary consciousness

Awareness and experiencing the Earth as a living entity

(See also: Planetary consciousness, Body Mind and Soul)

prosperity consciousness

Visualization or meditative approach to realizing material wealth

(See also: Prosperity consciousness, Body Mind and Soul)

divided consciousness

Ability or state of performing two or more tasks simultaneously

(See also: Divided consciousness, Body Mind and Soul)

field of consciousness

In ESP experiences there are many potential combinations of seeing, hearing, sensing. When the medium is under a proper self-disciplined conscious control, he can be aware of the major thought-flow focus and simultaneously know of fringe or marginal awareness and impressions impinging into the periphery of consciousness

(See also: Field of consciousness, Body Mind and Soul)

Cosmic Consciousness

Attunement to the infinite

(See also: Cosmic Consciousness, Body Mind and Soul)

Christ consciousness

A term the Christian tradition has used for intuitive knowing or the realization or attainment of high consciousness. The pure level of consciousness in which the mind, love, and will of God are made known to the enlightened person

(See also: Christ consciousness, Body Mind and Soul)

cellular consciousness

Theory that the body cells all possess awareness

(See also: Cellular consciousness, Body Mind and Soul)

Universal Consciousness

The universal mind

(See also: Universal Consciousness, Body Mind and Soul)