Essence and development of awareness: scientific and religious representations

Nepomnyashchy A. V., Haybulina E. I.

The purpose of this article – to give the overview of approaches to a question of awareness in religious practice, psychological consultation and modern science. In the text it is shown that the quality of awareness is a subject of practice of Buddhists from the moment of origin of this religion that is reflected in the level of everyday life practicing and directly in meditation. The awareness plays an important role in spiritual life of Christians, being realized in a trezvleniye concept, and in sufis spiritual life which have a special practice of concentration on the spiritual purposes. The purpose of this practice is the condition of the fana or self-destruction in God. J. Krishnamurti and K. Wilbur emphasize that the awareness can stop process of an attribution and bring to detection of true quality of understanding. The awareness plays an important role in psycho-therapeutic practice, allowing to be more free from determinism. Approaches in studying of awareness from the point of view of artificial intelligence are described. Approaches to a question of gradation of awareness are shown. The description of the approach to a question of awareness offered by V.M. Allakhverdov according to whom the awareness is necessary to eliminate the contradictions arising during decision making is given. In the article questions of that why understanding when the decision is made for some time before his understanding as the awareness in meditation when no decisions are made that happens to awareness in a condition of a conscious dream of the practicing Buddhist is possible is necessary are raised. Possible answers on these questions from the positions of integral vision received on the basis of the application of models of the person and his consciousness developed in religions of pure experience are offered

Keywords:person, awareness, consciousness, models, religion, representations, subjective experience, witness, triad structures.