When we talk about “levels of consciousness,” we’re really just talking about the different ways we learn to see the world.
There are a few different lenses, and they overlap like layers each adding to the whole. We have all at some point heard someone say low vibrational, high vibrational intuitively i understood what that meant but specifically i wondered the origins of that language. That’s Hawkins. He basically presented a logarithmic scale of consciousness ranging from 1 to 1,000, where each level represents an individual's perception of reality, emotions, and behaviors most of us live in cycles of shame, fear, anger, pride Lower Levels activity (20-175): Characterized by "emergency" emotions, egocentrism, and a view of self as victim. Then something shifts when you hit courage. Courage is the critical dividing line between Force everything (below 200) and Power everything (above 200). Levels below 200 are destructive (Shame, Guilt, Apathy, Grief, Fear, Desire, Anger, Pride), while levels above 200 are supportive of life Courage is the line where you stop living under life and start standing inside it. That divide is the inituitivly split you feel around low vibrational people.
That isn’t just some cute spiritual buzzword. Low consciousness feels like death. It feels like life draining out of you. Like decay. Like being here but not alive. And anybody who’s ever walked into a room and immediately felt something was off knows exactly what I mean. Animals know it. Children know it. They don’t “analyze” energy they feel it. Their nervous systems pick up the signal instinctively.
And so do we… when we haven’t been numbed out.
Because your body is a radar.
Your nervous system is an instrument.
Interoception is your ability to actually feel yourself inside yourself. This is the way you learn to navigate these energetic fields. These attractor fields Hawkins talked about? You don’t “think” your way through them. You sense them. You orient to them. But our culture is addicted to speed, noise, and technology that numbs that awareness(go outside and touch grass). We forgot how to listen to ourselves. We forgot the oldest intelligence we have: our body.
And this is where sovereignty stops being philosophy and becomes survival.
Ken Wilber got another angle: he says consciousness is a spectrum of identity. how split or whole we are. We break ourselves up mind vs body, self vs world, persona vs shadow, them vs us, him vs her, me vs me. Growth is unlearning all that . remembering we were whole before they taught us to tear ourselves apart. Add Polyvagal theory and now we’re talking about safety, threat, shutdown, community. Consciousness ain’t floating above the body; it’s living in the flesh. Leary and Wilson came in talking circuits of consciousness basically saying we’re capable of way more than what society trains us to function on. Most folks only ever live in the first two circuits: safety and ego. A few start touching deeper states of wholeness.
But here’s the part that matters:
There is no single, neutral “reality.” There is only the world your level of consciousness allows you to see.
If you’re living in fear, the world looks dangerous. If you’re living in ego, the world looks like competition. If you’re grounded in peace, the world looks alive, intelligent, meaningful.
Same world. Different consciousness. That’s why I talk about radical sovereignty so damn much.Sovereignty means integration. I’m not telling you to unleash rage, desire, pain, or grief recklessly. That ain’t sovereignty. That’s eruption. What I’m saying is: stop pretending they aren’t there. Rage and anger are not flaws. They are messengers. They are your subconscious screaming,
“Hey… this crossed a line.”
“Hey… That ain’t right.”
“Hey… you just got robbed.”
Meet those emotions with curiosity, not shame. Listen to them, don’t collapse into them. Because when you suppress them, you don’t become peaceful, you become hollow. You become compliant. You become exactly what this society loves producing: docile, agreeable, manageable bodies.
Real sovereignty is when you can look yourself in the mirror, see every piece and say, “Yeah. That’s me." It’s nervous-system work. It’s learning to breathe when triggered. Pause instead of explode. Feel instead of numb out. Choose instead of react.
That pause, That’s power.
Healing isn’t about going back to who you were. It’s about finally becoming who you are.
Not controlled by fear. Not owned by trauma. Not hollow, numb, or spiritually starved.
With the courage to hold both the darkness and the light without running from either.
