Continuum

• Unbounded

Identified with the cosmos, Nonlocal Relationship. Consciousness indistinguishable from Nature, Ground of Being or Divine Being. Absorption into experience of primordial unity

• Permeable Bounded

Identified with Group & Environment. Local & Near Local Relationships. Meta communication. Tensions dissolve. Imagery, fantasy, mythology disappear. Energies flow into and through self. Connection to environment and others.

Basic Samadhis, I/Thou relationship. Creative inspiration. Sense of Self as an evolving dynamic process. Awareness of Transcendent Being. Feelings of peace

• Semi-Permeable Bounded

Energetic flow. Organic Unity. Identification with others. empathic communication. Consciousness focused into Aesthetic Self. Sense of Self is open to Fantasy and mythology. Images of wholeness and integration arise.

Awareness that tensions are rooted in past events and unresolved relationships. Basic psychotherapeutic stance... Entrance into personal unconscious

Sense of Self is still experienced as subject but connected to others. Feelings of joy and bliss

• Moderately Bounded

Physio/Muscular tensions. Cognitive, Emotional communication.

Self: Sense of separateness. Physical and social relationships and one’s own identity. Thought: repetition of relationships and events. Tensions: enter consciousness as emotional and physical disturbances

Awareness of Boundaries of Skin and internal organs... Awareness shifts between Present, Past, Future

• Strongly Bounded

Emotional dis-ease. Sense of isolation and alienation. Limited Experiential communication. Trauma, Chronic repetition of thoughts and feelings, negative expectations and interpretations.

Unfocused divergent thinking. Feelings… of agitation, stress, being stuck, trapped. Hidden subtle tensions below threshold of consciousness. Sense of Self is dominated by pain, discomfort and isolation. Critical, obsession with details

Sense of self is Isolation.. Separate