A Study in Consciousness: A Contribution to the Science of Psychology
About This Book
Besant's most philosophically rigorous work — an attempt to develop a systematic science of consciousness grounded in Theosophical metaphysics. She examines the nature of consciousness at each level of the human constitution, from the physical to the spiritual, and argues that the phenomena studied by academic psychology represent only the outermost shell of a consciousness whose deeper dimensions are accessible to trained inner perception.
What You'll Learn
Consciousness is not produced by the physical brain but is a property of the universe itself — the brain is its instrument at the physical level, not its source. The ego — the personal self — is a complex of matter from the mental and causal planes organized around a central thread of consciousness; understanding its structure explains both its limitations and the path beyond them. Sleep, trance, meditation, and death all involve the same basic process — the withdrawal of consciousness from denser planes to subtler ones.
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