Hypsoconsciousness: Techniques for Achieving Personal Success

by John Baines, Josephine Bregazzi (Translator)

Book by Baines, John

Genres: Psychology, Philosophy, Self Help

248 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

Reviews

[Sophía]

This is one of the best works I've read on cultivating awareness in everyday life. 'Hypsoconsciousness' is alluding to a raised level of awareness in everyday life, a necessary step for any serious students. Meshes well with Gurdjieff and Mouravieff.

[Ben Neis-Eldridge]

A good pwrspective on meditation and some excellent techniques, especially in mindful movement.

[Michael Masters]

This work poses some intriguing arguments but IMO ultimately falls flat on it’s face in all its stigmatizing of the subconscious, and by dualistically and arbitrarily pitting “higher consciousness” against the subconscious instead of reconciling them until they seize to be contradictions, a mistake that isn’t too uncommon in teachings of this nature. I’ve often found a great deal of supposed spiritual teachers are simply afraid of the subconscious mostly because it’s unpredictable, especially when not in a lucid state. The book is clearly inspired by Gurdjieff who himself said that the subconscious is the real consciousness, thus defining the real as entirely opposite as the writer of this book. Such a book is bound to inevitably plunge one deeper into maya thus negating everything it sets out to accomplish IMO.

[Yanina Zuianova]

The main theme of this book is consciousness which is the core of our psyche.
Comprehension is a necessary element of conscious human behavior. When it is absent, a person is only a machine with stereotyped reactions and a limited mind.
The habit of thinking, combined with a high level of consciousness, helps to develop higher abilities that fundamentally distinguish his human behavior from that of an animal.
All people think, but only a few contemplate, and only an insignificant part of those who contemplate are really conscious.

[Carlos]

cant open book to read?