HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS AND RAISING YOUR LEVEL OF AWARENESS
A guide to understanding consciousness, awareness, and the path of inner growth
What Is Higher Consciousness?
Higher consciousness is often described as a connection to a source of guidance beyond the everyday, waking mind ~ a deeper current of understanding that sits behind ordinary thought. In many spiritual traditions, this connection is spoken of as tuning in: quieting the surface of the mind long enough to receive insight, direction, or comfort from something larger than the individual self.
One community built entirely around this idea is Terra Lux, a nonprofit center of spiritual awareness whose teachings come through a channel named Mushiba, who has relayed messages from an entity called Waith since 1987. In this framework, higher consciousness is not an abstract theory ~ it is treated as a living relationship between the physical, everyday Self (often called the Concrete Self) and higher, non-physical levels of the same Self. Waith describes his own origin as a very high energy level or dimension, and frames his teachings as a form of service: helping people find balance between the concrete world they live in and the abstract, spiritual dimension that underlies it.
Put simply, higher consciousness is what becomes available when a person learns to hold both realities at once ~ the practical demands of daily life, and the deeper wisdom that comes from going within.
What Are Levels of Awareness?
Awareness, in Waith’s teachings, is not one single thing ~ rather, it is a cluster of related capacities. He describes awareness through several overlapping qualities: understanding, seeing clearly, openness, perspective (the bigger picture), focused attention, perception of one's own reality, and accumulated knowledge carried across experiences. Growing in awareness means growing in all of these at once.
A useful comparison is the way a person moves through school. Learning to count is a new level of understanding; learning addition and subtraction opens the world further; eventually a student reaches algebra, and later, more advanced ideas still. At every stage, the learner feels they have reached a ceiling ~ until the next level opens up and the world looks different again. Levels of awareness work the same way, except the subjects are things like patience, forgiveness, tolerance, and unconditional love rather than mathematics. And just as one student may excel in math while another excels in language, each person carries different levels of awareness across the many different lessons of their life.
Importantly, these levels are described not as a straight ladder but as an endless, circling structure ~ layers of Self swirling around one another rather than simply stacking on top of each other. Each layer has its own blend of the concrete and the abstract.
Finding Your Current Level of Awareness
To make sense of how awareness rises, it helps to have a map of the Self. Terra Lux teachings describe three basic layers: the Concrete Self (the everyday, physical-world identity), the Higher Self (an intermediary that carries a strong sense of ego and often finds itself negotiating between the other two), and the Soul (the deepest, most enduring layer). The overall aim of growth is to bring these layers into harmony with what is called The Universal Consciousness ~ though this harmony is described as something reached only gradually, and never all at once.
Because each of these layers is, in turn, made up of its own concrete and abstract aspects, the structure of Self is genuinely intricate. It is common, in this view, for one layer of Self to embrace new information eagerly while another layer resists it ~ which is part of why personal growth so often feels like an internal negotiation rather than a single clean decision.
How to Raise Your Level of Awareness
Rather than handing over ready-made answers, this tradition consistently points a person back toward their own inner authority ~ Waith’s teachings illuminate the path, but walking it is described as something each person must do alone, through direct experience, self-reflection, and a willingness to sit with unresolved questions. That search is paired with an emphasis on lightheartedness: approaching one's own flaws and resistant Levels of Self with humor rather than harsh self-judgment, since heaviness tends to close a person down while lightness makes those inner layers more willing to release what they are holding onto.
Growth is also not expected to be effortless. Different levels of Self can be in conflict with one another ~ one part is welcoming new understanding while another, protective of its own ego, resists it ~ and simply recognizing that internal tug-of-war is itself a form of increased awareness. Working through it patiently, rather than expecting instant transformation, is presented as the normal shape of the journey.
Alongside patience is a call for balance: because every layer of Self holds both a concrete and an abstract dimension, raising awareness is not about abandoning ordinary, physical-world life for spiritual pursuits, but about holding both together ~ meeting daily responsibilities while staying in conscious contact with the deeper layers of Self that carry guidance and perspective
Waith: The quality of a person's inner life shapes everything else ~ relationships, decisions, sense of meaning, and capacity to meet difficulty.
A Gradual, Non-Linear Journey
Perhaps the most grounding part of Waith’s teaching is its patience with imperfection. Growth is described as cyclical rather than linear ~ expansion followed by consolidation, clarity followed by renewed confusion ~ and stages of growth (such as awakening, seeking, deepening, moving through difficulty, integration, and maturity) are not meant to be checked off in strict
Seen this way, raising your level of awareness is less a single achievement and more an ongoing relationship with yourself: returning again and again to the Search for Self and to Lightheartedness, while learning to be patient with the parts of you that are still catching up
Bringing It Together
Waith’s guidance is that higher consciousness is not a distant, unreachable state reserved for mystics. It is an ever-present connection between the Concrete Self living an ordinary life and the higher, abstract layers of that same Self that already hold greater clarity, patience, and perspective.
Raising your level of awareness means strengthening that connection ~ through honest, self-directed search rather than waiting for answers to be handed over, and, perhaps most distinctively, through Lightheartedness, which is treated not as a lucky mood but as one of the most effective tools for loosening the grip of ego and opening the Self to growth.
Whatever a person's starting point, the invitation is the same: keep turning inward, keep holding the concrete and the abstract together, and treat the journey with enough lightness that the higher levels of Self are willing to meet you halfway.