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Levels of Consciousness are tiers of awareness which derives from the way reality is perceived. Different levels of awareness as what the individual is conscious of, perceives, recognizes, and is cognizant of in any given present circumstance, based upon what the individual considers as significant, important and of consequence. The way reality
is perceived is defined here as five basic types:
1. Childlike magical thinking
2. Literalism or Mundane Consciousness
3. Symbolic Consciousness
4. Detached
5. Enlightened.
For a dissusion on the perception of reality see:
Associative Landscape
Childlike magical thinking is that imaginative state of mind possessed by most children. This is where for the child, almost anything is possible in the imagination. There does not exist yet the experience of finite limitations like gravity, sexual propensities, property or territorial rights, strengths and
weaknesses, history of failures, or the impossibilities of accomplishment.
The individual may evolve, by inculcation or adoption, from magical thinking into either the literal or symbolic types
of consciousness. The type of consciousness that may follow magical thinking depends upon what kind of culture or family one is raised. This might be either, as in modern culture the
Mundane Consciousness, where the emphasis is
upon systematic education and scientific materialism,
or in more indigenous cultures the Symbolic Consciousness, that retains much of the magical thinking of childhood like superstition. Both of these types of awareness are
discussed in the dissertations: Finite Determination and
Proto-religious Determination
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