I've always perceived as the rising of consciousness as being concommitant with the lowering of the psycho-spiritual frequencies;

Lower heart beat frequency, lower breathing frequency, lower thought frequency.

As consciousness emanates from a non dual source, through to duality, and on and on through magnitudes of mutiplicities, through an ever-proliferating kaleidoscope of thought forms that become physical forms, like the branches of a tree, until the frequency becomes so dense that it returns to a state of unity, and the process begins again. Contraction and expansion. Forever.