what is Higher consciousness?

[Viking]

Leo always talks about higher consciousness, especially in the last video (mindblowing video as usual). What is meant by this? higher consciousness eating, higher consciousness relationships, higher consciousness living, etc. What is the difference between that and wisdom? or just "being better"?

We talk about consciousness all the time but it's such a loose term I feel like.

[Nahm]

@Ilya There is the experience of someone who has never asked themselves what they are. Then there’s the view of Godhead / Absolute / “outside of everything that is”. We’re all somewhere inbetween. The greatest adventure that never happened. 

[Leo Gura]

@Ilya See videos:

• Low Quality vs High Quality Consciousness
• Understanding Awareness

[Pallero]

@Ilya Good question.

High consciousness, same as high awareness, means that your perception and understanding of reality is bigger, wider, more nuanced than if you had lower consciousness or awareness.

For example, you're cooking a meal and you see an unfamiliar word in the recipe, "clove". You wonder, "what is clove"? So you google it, you read about it, find out what it is. Then you go to the supermarket and buy some to make your meal. Clove is on the shelf next to coriander, but you never noticed it before. You are now a little wiser. Your awareness became a little higher. You are now aware of the existence and maybe usage of clove.

This is what we do in personal development, but instead of spices, we usually want to focus our awareness on ourselves - our negative thinking, limiting beliefs, false assumptions et cetera. We do this by educating ourselves, looking inside ourselves and doing various exercises. 99% of what we do is usually unconscious or subconscious. We want to bring it into our consciousness in order to get rid of stuff we don't want to do and choose to do more the stuff that we want to do. To live happier, more fulfilling lives.

Higher consciousness eating means knowing what and how you are eating, having made the choice to eat certain things in a certain way - instead of eating what everyone else around you is eating. Et cetera.

I hope that answers your question.

[Joseph Maynor]

Higher-consciousness is growth, maturity, increased awareness, increased perspective, increased knowledge of reality as it is — less delusions, or false, self-serving beliefs.

[snowleopard]

@Ilya  Not being fond of the higher/lower hierarchical designations, which can become another trap of the segregated self-identity, it can perhaps also simply be expressed as unsegregated consciousness.

[Highest]

It is a state that happens after intense years of meditation and self-inquiring, or by using several psychedelics.