Ko hsuan's teachings explain consciousness is only experienced when you learn to uncondition yourself and discipline yourself not to permit reconditioning.  This implies you evolve to become unafraid to experience solitude and rediscover innocence at soul-level. 

Just imagine, you realize who you are isn't related to what your taught or what you choose to learn.  When was the last time you experienced a sense of absolute purity of the mind? Will you define it? Have you forgotten this state? Would you like to discover it?

Some people believe as they learn to empty their mind, they evolve to come into contact with beings in other worlds.  Call them your spirit guides, guardian angels or entities on another level.  This place is not as far away as you may assume.  Its simply that your mind is full of doubt and scepticism about what you have not yet grown to understand.

As you learn to tap into what lies beyond teh world you know, you no longer perceive yourself as you did before.  Some part of your assumed identity dissolves and you embrace what has always been underneath. 

In some sense, the identity you have created has to die.  You need to disconneect from your ingrained assumptions about yourself to be reborn.   To embrace your deepest purity is to stop pushing events but to succomb to innate spontaneity.  Raising your awareness is about senseing how you construct walls and learning to break them down.