On Consciousness & Vedic Science

Abstract

The essays I have written on the subject of consciousness have been a record of my personal effort to understand my experiences as a healer. By putting these experiences down as specific documents for others to assess has been a challenge, not just for me but also for anyone who might read them. In retrospect I can see that part of the difficulty for a reader would have been the repetition of my description of my Samapatti experiences. I admit all of that repetition has been tedious but now, after years of that repetition we have reached a point where I do have a reasonably clear understanding of what the people who wrote the Vedas were talking about so far as consciousness is concerned. Consciousness has been a thorn in the side for western minds ever since the Greeks found philosophy as a means to understand reality and mankind’s place in the apparent scheme of things. The question of consciousness has been an integral part of my thorn in seeking to understand my Samapatti experiences, chiefly due to not having heard of Samapatti at that starting point. It has only been through writing what I found as I sought understanding that I encountered my own questions and the answers came along in their own good time.