A Small Outline of Consciousness

This is just a small overview, to give some basic understanding about consciousness. For the purpose of easier study of the mind. Before the arising of the most rudimentary forms of mentation, primarily during deep dreamless sleep, there is the condition of utter unconsciousness. This is termed the stream of bhavanga, which being "all unconscious",…

Dreams, Hallucinations and Thoughts below the Threshold of Consciousness

These are the mental activities of Life left to itself They constitute the first stirrings of a latent mind seeking manifestation. Their essential characteristic is that mental activity and thought are entirely governed by sensation and bodily processes. Yet, analogous to the generation of concepts through mental processing, during these processes, there happens a synthesis…