--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> 
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> 
wrote:
> > >
> > > Do you honestly believe that the waking state
> > > is only one state of consciousness, and thus
> > > that "knowledge is different in different states
> > > of consciousness doesn't apply to it?"
> > 
> > Obviously, it depends on how you define "states of
> > consciousness."
> > 
> > For instance, "knowledge is different in different
> > states of consciousness" does not apply to claiming
> > I'm the person who always "starts it" one day and
> > then only a week later making several posts attacking
> > me, entirely unprovoked.
> > 
> > > I'll be interested to hear your answer, because
> > > I don't. I see the "waking state" more from a 
> > > Buddhist POV these days, and thus as having
> > > "ten thousand states of mind,"
> > 
> > "States of mind" are not the same as "states of
> > consciousness."
> > 
> > > all of them
> > > different, all of them *as* different from one
> > > another in terms of how the world appears when 
> > > viewed from that state of mind as Maharishi's 
> > > CC is from his "Waking State" or GC or UC.
> > 
> > No, states of mind aren't different from each
> > other the same way CC/GC/UC is from waking state.
> > Category error.
> 
> Ok. 'Nuff said. That explains a great deal.

Good.  I'm glad you now recognize the error you've
been making.  Apparently what you've been thinking
of as "different states of consciousness" were
really only *different states of mind*.

Once you begin to experience different states of
consciousness, the distinction will be very clear.


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