By higher consciousness we are implying a realm of awareness beyond regular consciousness.
Higher consciousness is awareness at the source of our thinking, feeling, and acting.
Higher consciousness is that dynamic awareness which enables ordinary consciousness. Higher consciousness enables you to think, enables your feeling nature to work. It enables you to act wisely and well. Higher consciousness is the essential intelligence, energy, and power that enables breathing and brain function, that enables sensations to enter us through our sense organs. This incredible consciousness can do far more for you than merely maintain your blood flow.