Properties of Consciousness Focused consciousness implies something different from ordinary consciousness. Focused, coherent states of consciousness appear to provide clarity to knowing, an organizing influence on perceived reality.
Ordinary consciousness encourages entropy of thought and frenetic, dissonant perceptions of reality.
The following is an excerpt from the article Moving Mind, Moving Matter by Dean Radin, Ph.D., Noetic Sciences Review , No. 46 - Summer 1998. Third, the strength of consciousness in an individual fluctuates from moment to moment, and is regulated by focus of attention. Some states of consciousness have higher focus than others. We propose that ordinary awareness has a fairly low focus of attention compared to peak states, mystical states, and other nonordinary states.