The higher the level of consciousness the higher the vibration that creature has. With some creatures such as an amoeba or a rat, the mind, soul and body are connected but not enmeshed. With a dolphin or an ape they are enmeshed but not very deeply. The universe made a quantum leap when the amalgamation of the mind, body and soul of a conscious creature blended more perfectly together. When that happened the consciousness of that creature was raised to the level of the awareness of awareness.
Awareness is a quality of consciousness.
When the creative energy of God touched evolution at the time of the conception of that already conscious creature man was created, or more accurately, men and women. A stronger unity of mind, body and soul comes with every insight or intuition or act of benevolence or agony or ecstasy a person has. This stronger unity is a higher level of consciousness. In sleep consciousness dissolves. The essence of consciousness, its powers and qualities and memories, are retained in the parts .