If you take a look at Gurdjieff and Ouspensky's definitions of consciousness as well as many other philosophers and psychologists's definitions you might come away a little confused. The battle for a good definition, or better yet an example of consciousness, continues to this day. By looking at various definitions and examples I came up with the following:
There are five levels of consciousness:
1. Waking sleep - physically doing something while thinking of something else. Dangerous situation.
2. Absorption - deeply engrossed in something (reading, sewing, painting, etc.) and not aware of the surroundings. Dangerous situation.
3. Attention - Narrowly noticing what is happening in the moment. A little bit better.
4. Awareness - Knowing what you are doing and what is going on around you. A whole lot better.
5. Pure Awareness - awareness plus in touch with the Absolute.
The best.
For more about this subject go to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCLfsD-dBVs&t=37s
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