Four States of Consciousness and Elemental Correspondences

Elements and four states of consciousness such as waking, dreaming, dreamless sleep, and finally deep trance. These are also states of consciousness that every human retraces in each incarnation, passing through the deep trance consciousness typical of pre-natal life, then to that typical of the newborn, then passing to that of the child and finally to the ordinary waking consciousness of youth and maturity.

The consciousness corresponding to the element earth developed in the current period of Earth is the so-called waking consciousness, cemented and paralyzed in the physical body, externalized in the world of the senses and bound to three-dimensional space. The solidity of matter provides well-defined boundaries between what is perceived by the incarnated consciousness as "non-self" and which coincide with the limit imposed by the skin of the physical body. This condition of total identification with the physical body limits and obscures consciousness to higher dimensions, but also favors individualization and allows self-consciousness.

To the element water, formed in the planetary period of the Moon, corresponds the fluid state of consciousness that finds a form of analogy with that of dreams. Objective realities are no longer "dead" and perceived in their exteriority, but are formative impulses that give rise to images and forms, pleasant or unpleasant. These images, which may be partially subjective, are not signifiers of a determined and univocal external aspect, but are significators of the action, qualities and history of the reality that originated them. In other words, in this state, the vision of an object or image communicates not only its physical description, but also the emotional meaning associated with the psychic impulse that originated it.

To the element air, specialized in the planetary period of the Sun, corresponds the state of dreamless sleep. Here consciousness is expanded, not limited by the body or by a form. There is always an exterior life, but it is made of relationships, connections, informal flows with realities that we could define as "uranic", without defined form. Logical reasoning does not exist but the reciprocal transfer of the flow of consciousness.

To the element fire, originating from the Saturn period, corresponds the state of deep trance consciousness not accessible to the waking state. Without bodily limits, the external world is all perceived as an interior phenomenon, as a form of muffled warmth. Life in the Saturn period was an "immediate participation in the worlds that man felt within himself as today he feels his heart".

The transcendent or active consciousness, associated with the Ether element, is still in formation and is currently in our subconscious. The subconscious possesses the ability to enter into telepathic contact with the entire panpsychic Universe of which we are part, and thus the transformation of the subconscious into conscious and then superconsciousness allows the opening of the Self to the realities typical of Cosmic Ascension. This consciousness, currently precluded, will be proper to the next evolutionary cycle called Jupiter.

Appendix: Panpsychism and Landauer's Principle on Energy and Consciousness

Accepted by Journal of Scientific Exploration 2022
DANIELE CORRADETTI
Universidade do Algarve
Estr. da Penha, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal
e-mail: [email protected]

Abstract - Panpsychism has gained attention as a philosophical position that might address the hard problem of consciousness. In this article we will define a specific panpsychistic framework that allow the use of Landauer's Principle for a quantitative measurement of consciousness. We then propose an experimental set-up that might confirm or reject this hypothesis.

Keywords: Panpsychism, Consciousness, Information, Landauer's Principle

Panpsychism, from the Greek pan "all" and psyche "soul" or "mind", might be considered as "the view that the basic physical constituents of the universe have mental properties, whether or not they are parts of living organisms". Despite its ancient origins and its persistence in the history of Western philosophy, Panpsychism was a philosophically undervalued position until the second half of the 20th century. However, thanks to important works of various scholars, Panpsychism has recently gained new academic attention.