 The highest level of consciousness is self-awareness, in other words, the awareness of you and your thoughts without being your thoughts. Self-awareness is the ability to sit in the bleachers and watch yourself thinking and think, ooh, that's weird, where did that come from? Why do we do that, Paul? And it allows you to deconstruct an uncouple consciously and detach from default patterns of behavior that no one in your family line ever, ever questioned.