The state of consciousness is the actual brain wave pattern as measured on the Mind Mirror, while the content of consciousness includes the thoughts, feelings, emotions, and all of the material of the mind.

The range of content work includes accessing repressed psychological material and suppressed creativity, using visualization or what we call "sensualization" for improving health and well-being, and deepening meditation and spiritual practice. This is related to perceptual stacking discovered independently by Anna Wise and Dawna Markova.

Watching the interplay between the state and content of consciousness for many thousands of hours on many hundreds of people greatly heightened as well as deepened the understanding of the awakened mind -- how it developed, how it was used, what it was used for, how to help to develop it more quickly and efficiently, and how to use it more effectively. 

There are many varieties of awakened mind patterns, and through looking at the variety of styles of awakened minds that occur on many different types of people with many different kinds of content, the inherent truth behind the awakened mind becomes apparent.

It was the ability of the state to allow the flow of information (content) from the conscious mind to the unconscious mind and back again that identified whether this state was truly an awakened mind.  The many varieties and forms of the integral awakened mind, depend on the individual's own personal development, on his or her intention or need at the time, and on his or her normal signature pattern. 

Anna Wise, in her book, The High-Performance Mind (Tarcher/Putnam 1995), identified many of these varieties of awakened mind as well as identifying a number of brain wave patterns that were often easily mistaken for an Awakened Mind brain wave pattern.  Patterns that were mistaken for an Awakened Mind invariably had subtle forms of bottlenecks or blockages in the flow of information between the conscious, subconscious, and the unconscious mind. 

Therefore she determined that:

1.  It is the interrelationship of the peak frequencies of each of the four categories of brain waves (beta, alpha, theta, and delta) that actually identifies whether the individual has an awakened mind.

2.  This correct interrelationship of peak frequencies of the awakened mind allows the flow of information to occur between the conscious, subconscious and unconscious mind.

3.  Alpha is the bridge between the conscious and the subconscious mind.  Without alpha the individual will not be able to remember with his or her beta brain waves what occurred in the theta (subconscious) state -- whether it is dreaming, meditating, dealing with repressed psychological material, dealing with suppressed creativity, or even retrieving a lost memory.

4.  There is a "line of consciousness" that occurs in alpha and is specific to each individual at any given time.  The content that resides above the frequency of the line of consciousness is available for the normal (beta) conscious thought process of the individual. 

The content that resides below the line of consciousness at any given time is "subconscious" or even "unconscious" and unavailable to the conscious mind.  This subconscious content can be made available to the conscious mind by activating the line of consciousness and having the individual develop an awakened mind brainwave state with the appropriate intervals in between the peak frequencies that allows the content to be retrieved from the subconscious.

5.  For the purposes of consciousness training using the spectral analysis of the Mind Mirror, the frequency identification of the brainwave categories of beta, alpha, theta and delta is variable depending on each one's relationship to the other, and the specific content purpose of the particular category.

For example, theta at 7.5 might contain subconscious content if the line of consciousness is at 10 or 12 hz. (or even as high as 15) in one individual, while in another individual the frequency of 7.5 hz. might be the line of consciousness, itself, and, therefore, be acting as an alpha wave with the subconscious access in the range of 4 hz.

By watching this process over and over again on the Mind Mirror with many different clients under many different circumstances, the individualized nature of the awakened mind state became apparent.  A step-by-step developmental process was seen as the awakened mind emerged in each individual.  From this a step-by-step process was developed into a generic protocol for training the awakened mind.  This protocol can be individualized in accordance with the client's signature pattern and specific needs. It can also be used to teach groups the basic awakened mind pattern.