We
live in the age of Awakening. More and more
people are concerned about this: Who or what am I? I'm just the sum of my
personal life story, memories, experiences, thoughts and sufferings? Or is
therein me a hidden dimension of a mysterious consciousness, which is
superimposed by the noise of my personal life stories?
The spiritual
awakening means for the person the ability "to clearly see that what I
perceive, experience, think or feel, is after all not the same as what I am.”
As soon as a person recognizes who he or she is not, immediately comes the
recognition of who he or she actually is: "The light of consciousness, in
which perceptions, experiences, thoughts and emotions come and go. This
consciousness in the background, is the deeper, real self.”
The Presence thus created
(conscious alertness) brings about the sense of tranquility and internal peace.
The sustained conscious attention launches the spiritual process of
transubstatiation that leads the individual to conscious alertness, new
perspective and new ways of observing. This process, by transforming the
consciousness of the person, changes the entire personality of the individual.
The transformationof the Consciousness, the beginning of spiritual consciousness, is when the
person experiences that he or she is the consciousness that perceives the
operation of Ego. In Tolle’s opinion, when a person is aware that he/she is
thinking, the consciousness that experiences this is not part of the person’s
thinking. This is another dimension of consciousness.
Eckhart Tolle believes that
this conscious alertness has already appeared at a small, but rapidly
increasing part of mankind.
Following the teachings of
Eckhart Tolle Frank M Wanderer created the Conscious
Alertness Scale and carried out its statistical analysis. The purpose has
been developing a new measuring instrument for the recognition of spiritual
consciousness. An attempt has been made to find out whether this new
consciousness exists at all and to what extent it is present in the population
concerned (college students).
The measuring instrument thus created was used
to seek an answer to the question as to whether the Conscious Alertness was
present among college students, and whether there was any difference between
the two genders in this respect. Eight hundred and fifty-four students were
involved in the survey.
Frank research has verified
his research hypothesis, that is, Conscious Alertness is present among college
students.
The Conscious Alertness Scale revealed three dimensions of the
Presence:
- Reduction
in the functions of Ego
- Transcending
the functions of Ego
- Alert
consciousness in the present
Among college students, the Alert consciousness
in the present dimension of the Conscious Alertness had the highest
prevalence.
Within that dimension, the sense of an "inner
body” (an internal vividness behind the external body) was the most common. Of
the students, 14,4% experience this feeling several times a day and 13,1% of
them at least once a day. An individual is only able to experience this emotion
if he or she is consciously experiencing the current moment. Of the college
students, 9,8% experiences an emotion several times a day and 9,1% does so once
a day that the surrounding world is the reflection of the universal existence.
Of the students, 8,5% see themselves in moments of clear conscience several
times a day and 4,6% of them experiences this at least once a day. Of the
students, 5,9% experience the sense of peace and happiness without any
particular reason every day, and 3,3% of them are visited by this feeling
several times a day.
The second most common dimension of Conscious
Alertnesswas Reduction in the functions of Ego. Within that, the
reduction of the desire to possess things was particularly conspicuous.
Of the students, 9,8% rarely and 3,3% of them never or
almost never experienced the longing for something more. Being offended and
nursing, sustaining the sense of being offended as the strategies of
reinforcing the Ego also had a diminishing tendency among many of the college
students (rarely: 6,5%, never or almost never 2,6%; nursing the sense of being
offended: rarely 5,2%, never or almost never 2,6%). The prevalence of
experiencing the sense of "I am right” as a strategy of sustaining and
reinforcing the Ego also diminished considerably among college students. Of
those college students, 5,2% of them rarely and 3,3% of them never or almost
never experience this emotion. Of the college students, 7,8% rarely experience
the recklessness and dissatisfaction rooted in dissatisfied want and desires,
and 1,3% of them almost never do. The withdrawal of the Ego was the least
spectacular at complaining (rarely 2,6%, never or almost never 1,3% of them
complain) and boasting (2,1% boast rarely, 0,7% never or almost never do so).
The prevalence of Transcending the functions of
Ego was the least common among the components of the Conscious
Alertness.
Within that dimension, transcending thinking and
emotions were the most frequent patterns of behavior. 3,3% of the students
experience this impression daily and 2% several times a day. Of the students,
2,6% have the impression that their thoughts and emotions constitute only a
small fragment of their real personalities, and 0,7% of them encounter this
feeling several times a day. In the frequency of occurrence, this was followed by
the detachment from external things, which was experienced by 3,2% of the
students every day and 0,7% of them several times a day. Students appeared to
be least capable of transcending the perpetual operation of thinking; only 1,4%
of them experienced that the stream of their was aimless and repetitive.
Eckhart Tolle argues that
the emergence of the Conscious Alertness is relatively independent of gender;
it appears in men as well as in women.
Our research findings
underpin this opinion, as we were unable to reveal any considerable difference
between the genders in any of the dimensions of Conscious Alertness.
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From the book>> Frank M. Wanderer:
The Chant of the Heart: Enjoy the Nectar of Being
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Frank is also the author of the following books:
- 3 Stages in the Evolution of the Human Spirit EGO – ALERTNESS – CONSCIOUSNESS
- The Chant of the Heart: Enjoy the Nectar of Being
- The Flames of Alertness: Discover the Power of Consciousness!
- The Biggest Obstacle to Enlightenment: How to Escape from the Prison of Mind Games?
- and several other books on consciousness and enlightenment.
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