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This does not mean that one is 'unconscious' but that one's
responses become automatic; about which, one can be highly
conscious. Consequently, 'enlightenment' is an appropriate label
for the stage beyond 'mastery.' This can also be called 'reflective,'
although one is often reflective beginning with intentionality.
The distinction is that 'enlightenment' represents a particular
attainment of higher awareness, whereas reflection per se is the
directing of attention toward an object. I would emphasize the
nature of enlightenment as a dissolution of boundaries to the
point where one is conscious of a higher level of reality in which
self and other become part of a unified field, albeit from the point
of awareness of an enlightened master, as it were. This is that
form of mentoring referred to as guruship (assuming the guru is,
in fact, qualified through this degree of enlightened competence).
What should be apparent is that there is learning distinct from
awareness. One 'learns' through means independent of
awareness, although awareness may accompany learning.
Awareness can also interfere with learning. The two are simply
not the same. One may in fact be a capable teacher with
awareness and lack the actual skill one is teaching. This may be
unusual, but is certainly not unheard of. It can arise with persons
who become disabled, but are still aware, or it may arise with
persons who are aware but never acquired the physical skill.
Certainly Einstein was never 'God' to have thought experiments
enabling him to imagine how 'God' might have designed the
universe. More illustratively, athletes can improve their
performance through visualization. Visualization, in fact, can
improve the efficacy of exercise in general, whether physical or
mental. This should be telling us that awareness and the physical
process of learning occur somewhat independently, albeit
interactively.
Anyhow, I suggest that 'conscious competence' is really just
'learning' in 5 stages, from accidental to enlightened, passing
through intentional, skillful, and masterful. Many other labels can
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