Elizabeth Haich passes through a pyramid undergoing a consciousness test, where she is exposed to ascending levels of awareness. The consciousness she grasps and identifies with, that's where she remains. This same test happens for all of us, every single moment.
When we stop clinging to or identifying with a particular layer of our relative existence, specifically the lowest layer we're still attached to, we experience a rebirth. Our entire life reorganizes at every level, and our experience of living fundamentally transforms. The rules of the game change.
What Happens When You Rise
The first effect you feel is spaciousness, suddenly there's much more freedom, and this freedom arrives naturally, without the effort that was once required. We gradually recognize more and more how our inner reality influences physical reality, and new possibilities that weren't accessible before arrive in consciousness as inspiration.
I write this from where I am. At a lower consciousness level, this text will sound unclear and irrelevant. Someone at a higher consciousness level could describe what I'm describing with greater clarity and detail, and more.
Level 1: Survival Consciousness
The lowest consciousness is survival consciousness. Life appears dark, foggy, confusing. Cause and effect aren't clear, they exist in the intuitive realm but aren't accessible to thought. From this place, there's constant suspicion of everything, and a continuous attempt to grab whatever is currently visible, whatever consciousness is currently focused on.
The way to get it will be "any means necessary" - force, emotional manipulation, intellectual games, and if nothing seems to work, then physical violence over life and death.
This is the consciousness we return to when we panic.
Level 2: Desire Consciousness
The next consciousness, second in height, is desire consciousness. In this consciousness, the theme is satisfying sensual desires. It doesn't revolve only around sex, it's connected to the senses and various pleasures, to different types of physical intimacy, to seduction and instincts.
In this consciousness, there's a subconscious understanding that survival is achieved through simple actions, and the focus isn't on achieving things but on being in as much physical bodily arousal as possible, preferably with others. A moment without sensory stimulation is experienced as boring, wasted.
This is the animalistic consciousness that causes us to become addicted, to guilty pleasures, and to sexual harm. When the victim is in this consciousness, they won't be aware of the harm. Only at the next consciousness level will there be recognition of the experience's impact.
Level 3: Emotional Consciousness
The next consciousness is emotional consciousness, I believe.
[My window for writing closed as Naomi needed my attention.]
Rising Through the Levels
As I rise through the levels, it becomes harder for me to describe them, and the consciousness I'm identified with I cannot describe from an experiential place because I'm still "inside." There's a fascinating description in the book Initiation, and I believe more descriptions can be found. They say the consciousness levels parallel the 7 chakras, but I have no interest in sharing intellectual understandings, that would just be repeating others' words.
For some reason, this topic came to me now.
Questions People Ask
How do I know which level of consciousness I'm at?
Look at what triggers you back into survival mode. The consciousness level you return to under stress reveals where you're still attached. Notice your default reactions when threatened, do you fight, manipulate, or seek pleasure to escape?
Can someone be at multiple consciousness levels simultaneously?
We fluctuate between levels throughout the day, but we have a baseline, the lowest level we're still identified with. Growth means raising this baseline, not just having peak experiences.
What are the higher levels of consciousness?
Beyond emotional consciousness come power/will consciousness, heart consciousness, truth consciousness, and unity consciousness. Each brings its own freedoms and responsibilities. The journey isn't about reaching the top, but about not being stuck at the bottom.
How do I transcend to higher consciousness?
Stop clinging. When you release attachment to a particular level of existence, you naturally rise. It's not about forcing yourself up, but about letting go of what keeps you down. Each release is a small death and rebirth.
