Many people think that meditation is to reduce consciousness, but it is to the contrary. It is to augment it, to expand it, to acquire more lucidity. For this reason, its vehicle is called superconscious. There are many meditation groups that do not know how to explain what to do to attain this expanded state of consciousness and simply tell you to sit and be quite. To meditate is to wake up. To not meditate or to finish meditating and return to the mental state is to enter into a process of consciousness hibernation. It is like shielding lucidity with the heavy armor of logic and reason.