This is my first comment on youtube in a year or so. I listen to podcasts as I'm going to sleep. What has stuck with me from this one is just how much of our functioning has nothing to do with so-called consciousness. I think actually the most spiritually-striving among us may really have the goal of losing consciousness as much as "raising" their levels of it -- not that that's a bad thing. Anyway, I'm turning this back on now and going back to "sleep". vvj.