Super-Conscious Awareness
A state of mind characterized by greatly reduced external awareness and expanded interior awareness which is frequently accompanied by penetrating intuitive insight, emotional (and sometimes physical) euphoria, and occasionally, visions. Although the experience is usually brief in physical time, such experiences can last several days or more, can recur with frequency, and in the spiritually advanced adept, can be maintained with constancy. Subjective perception of time, space and/or self may strongly change during this state of conscoiusness. The euphoria experienced in this state of mind, sometimes described as a state of ever-new joy, is referred to as bliss (the Eastern model) or ecstacy (the Western model).