• unfold mental potentials

• different perceptions

• different qualities of the mind

• unfathomable

• waking state of consciousness

• sleep state of consciousness

• dreaming state of consciousness

• fourth state of consciousness (transcendental)

• inner silnece, no boundaries

• pure intelligence

• self-awareness

• free will of the individual

• consciousness is primary

• perception can be misleading

• nervous system

• deep rest

• rejuvenate the system

• source of thought

• resilience

• Who am I?

• What makes me human?

• EEG machine to measure brain waves

• high / low road of perception

• frontal lobe of the brain

• motoric system

• to value information

• the technique of transcendental meditation (TM)

• the mind as the ocean

First, he explained what the waking state of consciousness is. We talked about how we process information and how we can understand and function as human beings. There is also a sleep state of consciousness, which is reached when you’re in deep sleep. That’s the reason why we dream at night; it’s because of our consciousness, and what happens in our dreams feels real to us. We also talked about self-awareness. Self-awareness is knowing what’s happening around you and being able to decide what to do, for example, when someone says something to you, you think about how you want to respond instead of blurting out the first thing that comes to your mind. That’s the reason why your mind has free will.

After that, he told us where our thoughts come from. He showed it in a way that was very interesting. He said that our mind is like an ocean. At the bottom, there is silence, and that is where our thoughts pop out from. Our thoughts are like bubbles that come to the surface, where there are waves. The waves are the surface of our mind, where we think about our thoughts. The deeper you go, the more hidden thoughts you’ll find that you don’t even remember, and at the bottom, there is silence where thoughts don’t exist and there is only silence. By having thoughts and being able to think before we act is the reason why we’re human, and everyone has it different, which is why we’re unique.

So everything that he said to us was about reaching your true self and being able to relax and focus, even when times are rough.

Although I have a difficualty remembering everything that he said I'll try to summerise It. The first thing he talked about was how our conciusness changes our prespective of the word "does our counciousness make the world or does the world make our counciousness. The thing I was the most intersted in was how our brain can sometimes black out or just stop the process of thoughts falls in complete silence.

He talked about how this can happen after a long day of hard work or traning and although I never realized It sometimes after practice my brain to falls in complete silence. The other thing which I found interesting was the who am I question meaning that when we sleep we don't remember or just don't necesearlly have that in mind of who we are we exist without a second thought thought.

And in the end he talked a little bit about the technique that he was teaching I didn't really understand It maybe because he didn't really have any mor time to explain It.

I found this presentation interseting and hope to be able to hear other presentations like this one again!

What particularly stood out for me was his take on the four states of consciousness. The first one was the waking state of consciousness, which is the usual state you are in when you are awake, alert, and aware of yourself. The second one is the sleep state of consciousness, where your awareness of the external world is greatly reduced or absent, and your body goes to rest. The third one is the dreaming state of consciousness, the sleep state where your consciousness remains active internally; I think lucid dreaming is an example of this. And the fourth one is the transcendental state of consciousness, where you are conscious but not thinking. He kept it professional throughout the entirety of the class and showed his passion regarding the topic.

He also explained what transcendental meditation is and what it does. So, in short, it relaxes the mind and helps reach the deepest state of consciousness, the transcendental state as mentioned earlier.

So, overall, it was a good way to spend an English lesson. Even if the topic doesn’t interest you, learning new things is crucial in life, even if you think the things you learn are meaningless.

In the beginning, he told us about his sports career. He was really good at his sport, but after a while he could not concentrate, so he asked for help from his teammate, who told him about meditation. He started doing it, and it helped him a lot, so he decided that he was going to learn it and become a “master” of it.

Moving on to mindfulness, he told us a lot of things that I cannot really remember because of the unknown words, but I remember he was talking about consciousness, especially the waking, sleeping, and dreaming states of consciousness. For me, the most interesting of these was the dreaming state of consciousness. Moreover, I remember he was talking about inner silence. Inner silence is the quiet space beneath our thoughts, where the mind rests without needing to analyze, judge, or react. Furthermore, he talked about the source of thoughts. The source of thoughts is the quiet mind underneath them. Thoughts pop up on their own, shaped by memories, feelings, and what we notice around us.

Taking everything into account, some parts of the lesson were interesting, but for some parts I could not understand what he was talking about. I am not really interested in this topic, but I listened to it and learned new things from it.

He mentioned two ways of how the mind processes something it feels or sees. It was very interesting to hear about these two. The higher one has emotions and thinks, and the lower one doesn’t do anything, it just transfers all the information directly to the brain center. He also told us that whenever something influences our brain, the higher way turns off or just slows down and doesn’t work properly. I have experienced this several times, and I found it interesting to hear about why it works like that.

After all, I liked the lesson a lot and enjoyed his presentation, so maybe I might start thinking about learning how to meditate.

Another thing I learned is that thoughts and perceptions travel in two different ways to the mind, and sometimes the brain doesn’t think about the response and just makes a move. This happens when the thoughts don’t go through the frontal lobe. Later on, he also showed us how he thinks about the mind and the source of thoughts. According to him, it’s like an ocean, and at the bottom there is the source of thoughts. If you are able to reach it, you will enter a different state of mind and will not have any thoughts, just peace and quiet.

There was another topic, “Who am I?”. He said we are the mind, but there are a lot of other beliefs. I partly believe this. I think our body is a shell in which the mind is put. The mind controls the body, and after death we leave this “shell”. Overall, I think it was interesting, but also unique, because a person doesn’t always encounter a topic like this in school.

​In all honesty, I don't actually know. In the moment, the amount of new information was really hard to process, and I think I still haven't processed it all. On the way home, I was thinking about questions and ideas that came to my mind after the lecture. To me, it is still strange and hard to believe that these things can have such a big influence on our minds and intelligence; to the eye, it doesn't look complex, but when I try to imagine something that could unlock these important qualities of the mind, this just isn't what comes to mind.

​This is why it's hard to believe that it actually works—but it does. Even though I haven't done this myself and probably haven't unlocked these qualities in my mind yet, I believe that it works because of the way Peter spoke about it. He was so calm and understanding that I believe him.

​Eventually, my first thought was that the technique is not what unlocks these qualities; it’s just the human. I think a lot of things in the world work like this: you can do anything you put your mind to. The hard part is actually believing that you can do it. When someone cannot believe in themselves, they need a shoulder or a ledge to grab onto so they can find that belief. This could be a person, a technique, or even a specific thought. The important thing is that these things help us believe in ourselves. After thinking about this, I learned that it is proven to work, so that is something.

​I still don't know a lot about myself, and if someone were to ask me who I am, I would be in trouble, but I am improving as I go on about in my life. There were parts of the lecture that I could relate to, and that was really nice because it made me think about things I usually don't consider.

The lecture was great, Peter was really nice, and he was very peaceful. I loved the way he talked; I don’t know how someone can be this tranquil. I learned some new information, even though I didn’t understand everything. It would have been better if we didn’t have a 45-minute time limit, because the meditation part was the one that interested me the most. We also talked about how to unfold your mental potential, which I would like to learn more about. We talked about the biological parts of the brain too. The most interesting for me is the frontal lobe of the brain; this is where we process the information we get. I had never heard about this, but I liked learning new things.

Even though the time was limited, I enjoyed it, and it was a bit unusual but overall a great experience.

Peter explained four states of consciousness. The waking state is when we are aware of ourselves and have thoughts. Sleep is exactly the opposite. Then there is the dream state, in which we have thoughts but no self-awareness. The transcendental state is the deepest one because it goes beyond normal thinking. He described it as a state in which we have self-awareness but no thoughts at all.

According to Peter, this state strengthens self-awareness and allows people to experience that consciousness is primary, meaning it comes before thoughts, emotions, and even the physical world. This experience can help people act with more free will in their lives. He said that we have to look beyond the surface and think deeply about everything, including what might change because of a decision and what the consequences might be. We should not take every thought seriously, but instead decide whether it moves us forward or keeps us stuck.

My favourite sentence from this lecture was: “Only you can see if you are at peace with yourself.” I felt it deeply.

In my opinion, Peter’s lecture was interesting because it shows that reality is not always what it seems.