This is spiritual gatekeeping. The awareness layer is so vague (just 'present,' 'oneness,' 'silence') that it's unfalsifiable. Anyone who disagrees is 'still controlled by feelings.' You've built a frame where you can never be wrong, which is the opposite of clear thinking.
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This is spiritual gatekeeping. The awareness layer is so vague (just 'present,' 'oneness,' 'silence') that it's unfalsifiable. Anyone who disagrees is 'still controlled by feelings.' You've built a frame where you can never be wrong, which is the opposite
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Human Mind
There are three major layers of the human mind:
* Feeling-based
* Intelligence-based
* Awareness-based
1) Feeling-based – This base layer is one of the heaviest layers found in the human mind. The majority of our actions come from this layer. This layer is so heavy that it even dethrones the intelligence-based layer.
A person who is completely controlled by this layer is someone who looks like a person chasing after pleasures or something that feels good. Even a person who works hard and is seen as a highly disciplined person doesn't mean that person doesn't have this layer. Because the very reason for discipline is some kind of goal, and most goals give us some kind of relief. So, even if a person is disciplined, that person can still be under the control of this layer, because a peace of mind is also a kind of feeling which I call a false peace. Even the dominant parts of society—your so-called elite people of society—generally fall under this base layer. They are the ones who simply know how to become powerful in society, but that power comes from sheer control by this layer. You can see that even those big-pocket people are still running behind small things. Small things like rich cars, sex, beauty, false peace of mind, showoff, and controlling poor people.
They might be powerful in society, but they are simply being controlled by this layer.
This layer also has a heavy clutch on criminals because it works heavily on our emotions. Criminals, for the most part, are emotional beings. Even if they don't show it, the very reason for their crime is because of emotions or pleasures. The main reason is because they want quick, easy, and as-soon-as-possible access to those feelings.
You can now see that the majority of the population shows these signs. Everyone who is doing any kind of action has feelings or some kind of false peace of mind behind it. They think if they achieve something they will feel fulfilled, which is not the case. The actual case is that they do such things not because of peace, but because of pleasures which give them a temporary feel of peace.
2) Intelligence-based layer – This layer is present in everyone, even in those controlled by the feeling-based layer, but it simply doesn't have much effect on those people because feelings take over control. A heavy effect of this layer can be seen in people like inventors and creative artists—those who discover something new or are trying to discover something new. They generally try to discover something that does not already exist in the current world. These types of people have their own topics and subjects. One example is Sir Isaac Newton. He created his own subject. They don't follow any system; they create their own system. This layer has a heavy effect on artists too, because the majority of the time, artists like to create their own world through their imagination, which isn't seen by anyone else. The majority of artists want to create something new in their field.
These types of people generally don't mix with the normal population. They don't like to start a conversation that has no merit or any kind of knowledge in it.
If you talk to them, you will see that even if a conversation starts between you and them, they will eventually steer that conversation back to their own topic.
3) Awareness-based – The above two layers can be seen in the entire population; it's just that some are heavily controlled by the feeling-based layer and a few are driven by the intelligence-based layer. But in the awareness-based layer, it is a completely different story. This layer cannot be seen in the majority of the population. It is completely undeveloped in them—not just having less effect, but completely absent. In the history of this world, very few people have reached this level.
People like Jesus Christ, Krishna, Osho, Buddha, Tarun Pradhan, and Jiddu Krishnamurti—these people have completely achieved this layer.
That is why many of us call them God. You can see how powerful a being can be who achieves such a layer, because even many religions started because of them. Their teachings are accurate; they pinned down the concept of awareness. Awareness has many names—oneness, being present, silence, completeness.
It's just sad that people understand their teachings so wrong. In many of their teachings, you can connect the dots. Each of them points towards your inner self—your inner state of oneness. But it is just sad that people ask them stupid questions. People even pray to them for such stupid reasons. What are these stupid reasons? "Please help me and make my wish come true." Such a stupid thing to ask. They are part of the Guru field. As I said in a previous post, you can simply pray to the Guru field or to those who become one with that power. So you can pray to them, but instead of praying for your life to become easy, pray for removing your ignorance. Ask them for guidance on what is best for you.
Example: "My greetings to the divine Buddha, show me guidance. Do what is best for me."
This is the best you can ask: Do what is best for me, or remove my ignorance. Remove your ignorance and you will also achieve this state. Just through the knowledge of oneness, this layer starts forming in your being's mind. And the more you repeat this knowledge, the more strongly this layer will build in your being's memory.
The end of this layer is awareness. Only awareness left. What is it? Simply being present this is how simple it is. But to reach this simple thing a being have to gone through various walls. It depends on being ignorance to achieve the final state of simply being present. Only awareness left in end.
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Does removing ignorance and reaching awareness feel like something you've experienced?
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I've spent time in spiritual communities. People serious about practice still buy cars, fall in love, get irritated at traffic. They've developed a different relationship to feelings, but they're not past the feeling-based layer. Your hierarchy tends to make 'progress' mean detachment.
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You're right that most people are driven by emotion over reflection. But the three-layer model doesn't match neuroscience. The 'awareness layer' (meditation or dissociation) as a permanent developmental stage most never reach: that's a much bigger claim than evidence supports.
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If awareness is so transformative, why are their followers still trapped in the feeling layer? What's the mechanism that would unlock it in others?
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This is spiritual gatekeeping. The awareness layer is so vague (just 'present,' 'oneness,' 'silence') that it's unfalsifiable. Anyone who disagrees is 'still controlled by feelings.' You've built a frame where you can never be wrong, which is the opposite of clear thinking.
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The part about elite people chasing cars and sex reads harsh. Status stuff can be hollow, sure, but plenty of driven people are also curious and working on real things.
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Did Jesus, Krishna, Buddha actually describe the mind in this three-layer structure, or are you reading that into their work? What texts show they taught this hierarchy?
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The three layers are clearly entangled, not discrete. You say discipline comes from feeling-based because goals give relief, but that's just saying humans want outcomes. What's the evidence that awareness-based consciousness is distinct from intelligence at scale?