What Is Higher Consciousness?

This mini-book is a chapter from my forthcoming book Enlightenment 101: A Guide to God-Realization and Higher Human Culture. Its subtitle is "Practical Spirituality and Applied Wisdom for Everyday Life." I've been working on it for many years, in between so much else, that it seems like "forever." Be that as it may, it is nearly completed, yet I still cannot project a finish date, let alone a publication date. Therefore it occurred to me that I could share some of Enlightenment 101 via this mini-book (in both ebook and paper format). I expect to follow this one with several others, each a complete chapter from the incomplete book, as a way of introducing readers to what I hope will be finished and published in the near future. This essay is expanded from a chapter in Everything You Want to Know about TM (Pocket Books, 1976 and Paraview Press, 2004).