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2 unusual facts about Higher consciousness


Higher consciousness

The goal of "higher consciousness" is sometimes pursued by meditation in Yoga, the Buddhist Jhanas, in the practices of Christian monks and in Sufism.

The pursuit of yoga and the Buddhist Jhanas involve feelings of oneness with the world that give rise to a state of rapture.


Human Be-In

The Human Be-In focused the key ideas of the 1960s counterculture: personal empowerment, cultural and political decentralization, communal living, ecological awareness, higher consciousness (with the aid of psychedelic drugs), acceptance of illicit drug use, and radical liberal political consciousness.


see also

Judith Hooper

With her husband, Dick Teresi, she co-wrote the books The Three-Pound Universe (1986) and Would the Buddha Wear a Walkman? A Catalogue of Revolutionary Tools for Higher Consciousness (1990).