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basic bodily functions and appears to                   maze is serving the purpose of keeping
        be the source of both basic creative but  something hidden at its center.
        also potentially negative impulses.

                                                                If we go by the creation story common
        The subconscious is the middle level                    to most major spiritual traditions,

        where impulses for the unconscious                      it’s about a kind of smoke and mirror
        can be processed in raw form and                        game to allow conscious or spiritual
        made available to the conscious mind,                   energy to experience the perception

        which is the everyday waking and                        of materiality. It’s what the Hindus
        working conscious under which we                        called Maya, modern science calls

        operate. The superconscious or higher                   simulated reality, and pop culture calls
        self is a kind of transcendental mind                   the Matrix.
        realm containing the archetypes or

        the blueprint patterns out of which                     To be continued …
        the perceptual world is formed. Each

        of these mind levels has discernable                    Peter Canova
        corresponding brain wave patterns                       Peter Canova is an international
        called Alpha, Beta, Theta, and Delta.                   businessman who, after a series of life-

                                                                changing spiritual experiences, began
        In the Realm of Illusion                                writing on spirituality and consciousness.

        At this point, you might well be                        He is the author of the 25x award-winning
        thinking, wow, all these mind-body                      First Souls Trilogy and has contributed

        divisions seem like such an obstacle                    to the popular Chicken Soup for the
        course how do we function at all? Well,  Soul series. His latest book, Quantum

        you’re on to something there. It could                  Spirituality, swept the American Book
        just be that this bio-psychological                     Fest Awards in four categories.
                                                                https://petercanova.com/

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