{"id":743,"date":"2012-01-21T10:29:29","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T10:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/?p=743"},"modified":"2012-02-18T22:45:49","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T22:45:49","slug":"levels-of-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/levels-of-awareness","title":{"rendered":"Levels of Awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How many levels of awareness are there?<\/p><\/div>\n

I THINK I am who I am – and you are who you are – and every creature or plant is what it is – separate from me. That makes me wonder if there is a\u00a0hierarchy\u00a0of awareness\u00a0involved\u00a0here. Basically, I’m aware of myself (roughly my mind – and to a lesser extent, perhaps, my body) as “level1”. Level 1 might be thought of as “inside me.”<\/p>\n

I’m also aware of the other humans and animals in my\u00a0immediate\u00a0vicinity (maybe “level 2”). I might add to level 2 the awareness of germs that affect my body – not a direct awareness as I can’t sense that level directly, but through education. Level 2 might also include earth (in my immediate vicinity), the sun and stars I can see. Level 2 might be thought of as “outside me.”<\/p>\n

I’m unaware beyond that – or am I? Level 3? What would that include? Maybe such things as “sixth sense” – whatever is beyond “inside me” (level 1) and “outside me” (level 2).<\/p>\n

How many levels are there? Can I become aware of more than 2?<\/p>\n

I’m pretty sketchy on level 1, let alone level 2 (mostly unaware).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I THINK I am who I am – and you are who you are – and every creature or plant is what it is – separate from me. That makes me wonder if there is a hierarchy of awareness involved here. Basically, I’m aware of myself (roughly my mind – and to a lesser extent, perhaps, my body) as “level1”. Level 1 might be thought of as “inside me.” Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1116,"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions\/1116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}