Consciousness Quotient
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The term Consciousness Quotient (CQ) is a theoretical term that refers to the amount of Monadic Consciousness currently present in a Physical Unit. As explained in The Great Awakening, consciousness fills up the Physical Unit much like water fills a glass. The fill point or level of consciousness present in the PU at any one time is variable and can be indicated via a simple percentage figure. While sleeping, consciousness is almost wholly absent, present at about the two percent level. While awake and in Normal Consciousness, consciousness fills the glass to about ten percent. In certain higher states of consciousness, whether chemically or naturally induced, and during the end-times awakening of consciousness, higher percentages are attained.
It is important to note that the CQ is not genetically determined. Higher states of consciousness, peak experiences, evolutionary advances or whatever you want to call them are not confined to the select, the chosen, the genetically fit mutants. The CQ of the PU is plastic and may be raised through various forms of spiritual practice, the exploitation of Entheogens, Shamanic practice, and so on. The CQ of a PU may be lowered by exposing the PU to emotional, psychological, spiritual, and/or physical trauma, by filling the PU full of toxins, or by interfering with proper fluid and nutrient intake.
Under ideal and healthy conditions, the CQ of a PU would rise continuously to a peak level of attainment, typically achieved past the age of fifty and extending until the voluntary or accidental death of the PU. However, since ideal conditions do not yet exist on this earth, in a typical situation, the CQ of the PU would rise from a low of about one percent at birth to a high of about fourteen percent in the adolescent stage. At this point The System and its agents (whether willing or unwitting) would begin the process of reducing the CQ of the PU to allow the insertion of the PU into an appropriate niche in the Slave System of this world.
