It is not so much that consciousness has different intensities, although that may be true additionally, but that it has different frequencies or harmonics. The implicit principle that presences experience, or functioning, has a dimension by which the scope and depth of experience is determined, most especially in determining the nature of distinctions. In this paradigm the lower frequencies produce a world of fixed and opaque distinctions and the higher frequencies a world of subtle interdependences in which distinctions are situational and catalytic. Both time and space are also determined in this way by the kinds of distinctions that they sustain. A pure first-person world can thus only arise above a certain threshold. The nature and quality of phenomenality is determined by the dominant harmonics of the observer, which leaves an opening for the operation of other subordinate harmonics suggesting a different world in counterpoint to the one in which your main story is unfolding. This idea is itself a metaphor, and hence a synthesis at a certain level of transparency. It is meant to normalise ideas such as the intertwining of the timeless and time, and of self and other. If you look closely you can see how much of your human reality is based upon these key indeterminacies, all of it really. And again you will see that the contextual and regulative ideas that form the horizon of experience on one level of experience are the natural objectivities at another level, and that they could not serve as they do if they were not real for a potential observer who also happens to be you. There is a world of conditions - perhaps this is what is meant by the causal plane. The selection of the harmonic structure of the observer is not made by the observer but by the observed, by the situation of the life that is being illuminated. The pure observer vibrates at all frequencies at the same time, selection takes place only with individualisation.