You Are Not Book.indb - Stephen H. Wolinsky Ph. D.

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process of evolution progressively releases consciousness
from its limitation. The different stages of Samadhi 1
represent the progressive release of consciousness from
limitations.” (Taimini, The Science of Yoga, p. 33)
It’s during the process of expansion or thinning-out of
consciousness that there is a withdrawal of the external,
thinking, emotional and even body consciousness.
“Each vehicle has its own function. . . . The progressive
withdrawal of consciousness into increasingly subtler
vehicles. The recession of consciousness is not steady
and uninterrupted sinking into greater and greater
depths, but consists in this alternate out and inward
movement of consciousness.” (Taimini, The Science of
Yoga, pp. 33-36)
The body is made of THE SUBSTANCE. However, in
order to understand the body and the concept of consciousness
(which is THAT SUBSTANCE condensed), we must first
understand how consciousness animates the body through
what we call the nervous system.
To best appreciate how the veils of consciousness appear
through the body’s nervous system we will start with Alfred
Korzybski.
After 12 years of research, Korzybski, a Polish-American
social scientist, published his monumental work, Science
and Sanity, which introduced his non-Aristotelian system,
a synthesis of intellectual trends in the Western world that
evolved during 20 th century and earlier. A fundamental part
of this system is to recognize that people make sense of the
world through a process of abstracting—from our limited
sense perceptions to our use of language to describe some
aspects of what we perceived, we then make inferences and
1 Samadhi at the “I AM” phase in most forms of yoga and will be discussed
in great detail in Part II: The Veil of Spirituality.