mistysailor23 said:Forgive me, but I’m talking about a single unified consciousness here. To me, the subconscious and the unconscious are just different sides of the same coin—my own awareness. Superconsciousness, on the other hand, feels more like a flash of pure, luminous insight...
I'm coming at this from a yoga and Advaita perspective, mostly because it just feels like the most logical way to wrap my head around things.
So, if I look at it from that angle, I'll try to bridge the gap between the traditional teachings and my own weird little take on it.
To me, everything is just Consciousness. So even what we call "matter" is basically an illusion—kind of like how particles or a continuum don't really exist in the way we think they do.
Consciousness is consciousness, sure, but the stuff we can't control is the subconscious, since that's where our impressions come from, which then dictates our behavior—basically, our character.
If we accept things like circumstances, fate, or the law of karma, then all of that lives within the space of the unconscious.
Meditation kind of breaks down the walls between those three layers of awareness until everything merges into one single consciousness. In that state, it becomes supersconsciousness because the unconscious and subconscious have finally synced up with the conscious mind.
Basically, meditation leads us back to the source where the subject, the object, and the process all become one thing (back to that trinity concept again). See, our intellectual understanding is just... well, intellectual, obviously. But meditative realization—specifically samadhi—is actually merging with the object being known and the process of knowing itself.
Anyway, back to the objective world. Advaita brings up the number three again. The world is the feminine aspect of God (you know, maternal, concrete, giving birth to us, feeding us...) and we call it Nature (Prakriti). There are three main qualities to the world (nature), the gunas: sattva, rajas, and tamas. I usually translate them as information, energy (movement/action), and inertia (mass).
If you tried to break matter down, you'd eventually hit atoms, but they aren't anything like the little circles we draw in science class. Those are just mathematical models. In reality, they're just sources of various forces, and those sources all have some kind of relationship with each other.