Each ‘Day lesson’ contains a methodical rationale, plus a practical meditation exercise.

Lessons vary in length from 7 minutes to 18 minutes.

The lessons are highly condensed and it is recommended to practice each lesson more than once to gain greater understanding and to consolidate the practice.

Early lessons are more elementary, leading to highly integrated lessons toward the end of the Course. Take your time. There is no rush. A missed or misunderstood lesson will not forgive you, and will require a return to repeat and re-examine its contents. It is possible to complete the Course in 14 days, but there is no maximum time to completion; days, weeks, months or years. You have lifetime access to the Course.

Curriculum Days

1. Consciousness as Observer in the Meditation Process – clarifying meditation, differentiating between consciousness and mind, and testing some meditation skills. [7 min]
2. Consciousness and Mind – What is Consciousness? What is the Mind? ‘Who I think I am’ versus ‘Who I am’. Differentiating between Mind and Mind Space. [15min]
3. Identification of Consciousness – What is the first rule of Meditation? Freedom and Bondage in Meditation. [11min]
4. Modifications of Consciousness – What is the Identified State of Consciousness? What is a modification of consciousness and how does this relate to Meditation? What the Physical Body is, and how to use it in Meditation. [17min]
5. The procedure of Breaking the Identification of Consciousness in the Meditation. The cause of confusion, and the mechanical reflex. Meditation on the Physical body. [12min]
6. Pleasure and Pain in Meditation. What is Pleasure? What is Pain? Inclination Responses and how to overcome them in Meditation practice. [15min]
7. Desire as a modification of Consciousness in Meditation. What is Desire? What is to be done about Desire in Meditation? Choosing a worthwhile aim in Meditation. [13min]
8. Lower Mind Data Collection – the five sense organs and Meditation. The interference as well as the value of five sense data – seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching. [13min]
9. Common Sense and the Lower Mind coordination process in Meditation. What is Common Sense in the Mind? Overcoming the interference of Lower Mind data in Meditation. [10min]
10. Egoic self-integration as a modification of Consciousness. What is the Ego? How to break identification with the Ego in Meditation practice. [14min]
11. The Conceptual Egoic-self in Meditation practice. Motion Behaviours and Conceptual Forms in the Mind. How to differentiate and break identification with the conceptual Egoic-self. [16min]
12. Egoic Interest as a modification of Consciousness in the Meditation process. The cause of the high complexity of our mental life. Conscious and Unconscious self-interest. [15min]
13. Releasing Blockages and Frustrations. Illogical and irrational behaviour in the mind. Awareness, influence, and breaking identification with Blockages and Frustrations in the Meditation process. How is it so difficult to sit still in the body and bring the various levels of being to stillness? [15min]
14. Whole Pattern Principle and Meditational Integration. What is a Whole Pattern Principle? The meaning of Universal Function in Meditation. The Four Part Being and its inter-functional organisation. Meditation using a Governing Concept upon which Consciousness may rest and steer our individual life, intelligently. [18min]

This Course comprises 6 Main Lessons over 130 minutes in total.

Six lessons – basic

1. Deep Body Relaxation – Lie Down and Relax
2. Sit – Find a posture – Upright – Stillness
3. Consciousness & Meditation
4. Feeling & Awareness – Bio-Field and Three Part Being
5. Understand/Integrate – Four Part Being – Meditation Proper
6. The Overseer – Watch – Reflexive Self-Consciousness

]]> https://ihsw.org/course/introduction-to-consciousness-reflexive-self-consciousness/ Tue, 20 Jul 2021 18:55:57 +0000 https://ihsw.org/?post_type=course&p=813 Introduction to Consciousness and Reflexive Self-Consciousness

Consciousness

There are several words often used more or less indiscriminately to express what we mean when we say we KNOW anything.

We may say we know a thing, we are aware of it, we are conscious of it, we feel it, we sense it, etc.

Awareness, Consciousness, Feeling, Sensation
are words which refer to THAT whereby we know what we know.

The words consciousness, awareness, sentience, feeling, all refer to
THAT IN, AND BY WHICH, WE KNOW THINGS.

The word “consciousness” has a more specific significance. It is from the same root as “science”.
The SCI in the word is seen in the Latin scindere, “to split, to separate.”
Consciousness [as a way of knowing] knows things as separate from each other.
Consciousness defines analytically what sentience experiences wholly and none analytically.
Awareness

The word “awareness” is derived from the Old English “waer,” “cautious”. It is cognate with the Latin vereri, “to observe anxiously.”
To be wary is to be on guard in feeling, to be watchful.
Reflexive Self-Consciousness?

Reflexive Self-Consciousness

is a state of transcendent self awareness which confers upon the beings who attain it certain powers of adequate response and capacities of stimulus assimilation.

These powers man must attain, or perish from the earth as unfit for the next necessary step in the evolution of consciousness.

Course

This Course has 6 video presentations, a total of 44 component parts, and is timed through 90 minutes.

The work is excerpted from the teachings of Eugene Halliday and is offered as a beginner’s approach to a longer and more precise study which follows in other Courses.

Generally, this essential study, slowly and carefully narrated, may require more than one viewing, & perhaps a lifetime of practice.

]]> https://ihsw.org/course/meditation-steps-to-reflexive-self-consciousness/ Tue, 15 Feb 2022 14:29:57 +0000 https://ihsw.org/?post_type=course&p=1265 Meditation and Reflexive Self-Consciousness

Consciousness Expansion

All sincere individual Meditation, regardless of orientation and tradition, aims initially at the expansion of consciousness, and ultimately Reflexive Self-Consciousness.

Reflexive Self-Consciousness

Meditation which aims at Reflexive Self-Consciousness brings the individual progressively towards and into total self-determination and freedom. Reflexive Self-consciousness brings the individual into correspondence with total reality, and maximum self-response-ability; the expansion of consciousness enabling greater true-Self understanding at the level of the Unifield and Macrocosmos.

General Course Outline

This Course has 6 video presentations.

Meditations on the Physical Body, including Vital Centres

Meditations on Emotional States, including Psychology

Meditations on Ideas, Concepts and Systems of thought, including Philosophy

Meditations on Principles of Transcendence, including Religious & Faith processes

Meditations on Art and Symbols

Meditations on Will and stages of Sentience, Awareness and Consciousness

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