Steve Taylor: The Evolutionary Impulse to Awaken
Sounds True: Insights at the Edge
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The Wakeful Self System
In the normal human state, we have a sense of boundary between ourselves and the world. But when people undergo spiritual transformation, it's as if a new self system takes over with a whole range of different processes and mechanisms. The wakeful self system also has a different way of perceiving the world. It perceives the world in a much more real and vivid way. And in some ways, itis similar to the kind of heightened, intensified perception which young children have. In order to understand that, you really need to think about what i callthe the self system of sleep: the ordinary, or the present, normal human condition.
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