Schools of Consciousness

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Consciousness can be defined as the set of subjective, immediate, or remoteknowledge that each being has about the world and himself and sensory perception ofsights, sounds, and smells that are close to us. But our consciousness includes manymore perceptions; any person, through introspection, is able to perceive through a lot ofbodily sensations such as temperature, touch, different pressure points on your body,release tension, the rhythm of your breathing, or the beating of his own heart, saliva,the texture of his clothes, itching, pain, etc. Besides these different physicalperceptions, through an even deeper concentration will become aware of your mentaland emotional state, you perceive the constant variety of thoughts and differentemotional states they generate from the joy caused by a memory of spontaneous happymoments childhood to sudden sadness at the thought of a tragic event. Brain waves areintroduced as a way to understand states of consciousness. The person can achieve aneven more abstract perception of time, mortality itself, or the continuity of itsconsciousness and individuality of your conscious self. This personal perception ofinner experience itself is particularly evident in the moments of greatest emotionalintensity however is always present to some extent in current and even bored with ourlives now. Three main schools explain consciousness: Neuroscientist, Quantum, andSkeptic; this chapter will cover the main schools of consciousness, and will concentrateon the Quantum paradigm that will serve as background for the rest of this book.