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Universal Consciousness persists. Meditation practice is spontaneous, with attention freely flowing to transcendental levels. Life is lived selflessly with the full support of nature’s influences. Desires are effortlessly fulfilled. Needs are easily met. Limiting beliefs of every kind, including that of death or nonexistence are absent.
     
    • God-Conscious – The reality of God is known as God is —as the only expressive Being, Life, Power, and Presence from which the worlds and souls emanate. As with early superconscious and cosmic conscious stages of spiritual unfoldment, awakening to this level is usually progressive. Insights dawn, and perceptions provide knowledge which is validated by experience. This stage is beyond even the most refined intellectual ability to know. It is, usually, first intuitively apprehended, then directly experienced or realized. One at this level may outwardly conform to any wholesome lifestyle while engaging in self-responsible actions without experiencing any veiling or clouding of realization. During early stages, when God-consciousness is not complete, one should maintain a regular routine of spiritual practices for the purpose of removing remaining delusions and illusions from the mental field. When God-consciousness is complete, the soul is liberated from former restrictions.
     
    • Enlightenment – Flawless realization (with knowledge) of the allness of Consciousness: from the field of pure existence-being (that which is absolute, unmodified or pure), to God, Cosmic or Universal Mind, the primordial field of unmanifest nature, and the causal, astral, and matter realms. When established at this stage there is no other level to experience and nothing more to know. Fully enlightened souls live in the world only to fulfill evolutionary purposes and to assist souls to their higher good.
     
    Awakening through the progressive stages of spiritual growth may be experienced during meditation. The stages we move through may also be recognized as we observe ourselves actualizing constructive psychological changes and demonstrating improvements in functional abilities. We may notice that our problem-solving abilities become more pronounced, insights enable us to know what we did not know before, and that our way of viewing life is increasingly more universal and decidedly more satisfying. While revealing meditation perceptions are satisfying at the subjective level, the life-enhancing changes we experience while engaged in objective relationships validates our spiritual progress and makes life more enjoyable.
     
    When meditating, some discernible signs of superconscious awareness are mental peace, emotional calm, and a secure sense of being inwardly centered while being alert and attentive to what is occurring. We may still be aware of fluctuating moods and shifting mental processes but we are a witness to them and not as involved with them as we formerly were. At this stage the meditator may doubt the validity of the experience even though it is pleasant and the aftereffects are beneficial. With repeated practice of superconscious meditation, doubts vanish as more expanded states of consciousness unfold.
     
    Every mental perception leaves an impression or memory. Mental impressions resulting from environmental stimulation and our own thoughts, moods, and desires, are not always constructive in their further influences. However, the impressions resulting from superconscious experiences are always entirely constructive, and tend to weaken and neutralize destructive mental impressions. This is why self-defeating habits and behaviors often fall away after one has been meditating on a regular schedule for a few weeks or months. Another reason why such habits and behaviors can be more easily renounced when a spiritual growth program has been implemented, is that, with new resolve, one is inspired to make better choices. When a sense of enlightened purpose is the determining factor, we are