The following sources provide highly nuanced definitions for the following key concepts and those definitions

are consistent with my own word usages in the essays archived in these Scribd collections. 1) consciousness & 2) self awareness - Ursula Goodenough and Terrence W. Deacon, From Biology to Consciousness to Morality, Zygon, Volume 38, Issue 4, pages 801819, December 2003 3) mysticism & 4) mystical consciousness - Louis Roy, Can We Thematize Mysticism?, Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies, 21 (2003): 47-66 5) contemplation - Ernest Larkin, Contemplative Prayer Forms Today: Are They Contemplation?, The Diversity of Centering Prayer, Editor, Gustave Reininger, Continuum, New York, 1999. 6) nonduality - David Loy, Nonduality: A Study in Comparative Philosophy, New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 1988 7) ego Philip A. St. Romain, God, Self and Ego,lulu.com, April 2010 8) pneumatological imagination - Amos Yong, Beyond the Impasse: Toward a Pneumatological Theology of Religions, Baker Academic, March 2003