This is http://www.essayz.com/a9310081.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %REFLECT CONSCIOUS OBJECT REAL SELF OTHER RELATE 931008 There are different levels and kinds of consciousness in terms of the focus of attention. Attention may be focused upon the: 1. Needs of the organism. 2. Needs of others. 3. Desires of the organism. 4. Desires of others. 5. Ideals and principles of the organism. 6. Ideals and principles of others. 7. Ideas generated by the organism. 8. Ideas generated by others. 9. Objects in the environment. 10. Subjective realities in the environment. 11. Both objects and subjective realities. 12. Relationships between objects present. 13. Relationships between subjects present. 14. Relationships between objects past. 15. Relationships between subjects past. 16. Patterns of relationships of all kinds. 17. Overviews of objective relationships. 18. Overviews of subjective relationships. 19. Articulations of particular paradigms. 20. Articulations of paradigm comparisons. 21. Creations of communal integrity. 22. Overviews of kinds of communal integrity. Each kind of focus is associated with different kinds and levels of consciousness. Some kinds of consciousness are exclusive of other kinds of consciousness; the participants in some kinds of consciousness being participants in collusive games of mutual self deception which discount and repress awareness of other kinds of consciousness in defensive maneuvers which are disintegrative of higher levels of consciousness. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================