Perceptive awareness is not the same as abstract awareness. Abstract means nonperceivable.

Morality is abstract. This means it cannot be determined through perception. It is determined through experience.

There are several types of realities which perception will not create. In many cases, perception simply does not extend that far. An example would be the structure of atoms. In higher spiritual states, atomic structure can be perceived. So acquiring this type of abstract reality depends upon spiritual state.

However, abstract reality can also be derived through study. People often acquire a lot of knowledge about atoms and molecules without directly perceiving them. Science is a method of acquiring abstract knowledge which goes beyond perception.

There is a high tendency to assume that the increased perception of higher spiritual states reveals everything. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The demons refer to satan as "the lord of knowledge and light" due to his nearly unlimited perception. Spirit cannibals such as satan acquire powers rivaling God's through their nearly unlimited spiritual perception which includes the ability to perceive forward and backward through time. Yet satan and his types cannot understand the simplest abstract complexities. Their sinfulness grows out of their lack of moral awareness.

One type of abstract reality which cannot be acquired through perception is cause-and-effect relationships. Energy, for example, causes objects to move. Predicting what energized objects will do requires abstract understanding which perception does not produce. Evil spirits have poor ability to predict.

Another type of abstraction which cannot be acquired through perception is the integration of values into realities. Morality is of this nature. It's a question of whether something should or should not be done. Values determine the "should" or "should not" aspect of behavior.

The values of morality are derived through experiences which people find to be good and necessary or bad and intolerable. Various experiences create different moral values. Persons who have never known anything but power see no reason not to harm or destroy other persons. Persons who have been harmed or destroyed (by various criteria) find that people should not be harmed.

Morality is that which sustains life. Persons who have been harmed and threatened determine that life should be sustained, which requires morality. Some persons have never experienced enough harm to determine that life should be sustained, and they have deficient moral values, which means they are corrupt or evil. They might want to survive themselves, but they don't care about survival of others, which is not morality.

Values are dependent upon awareness derived from perception and experience. What does awareness have to do with values? There are realities related to values. Awareness is integration of realities into the unified reality in the mind. So all of the realities related to values give values meaning depending upon their incorporation into related realities in the mind.

The reason why this abstract word salad is necessary is because a person can observe some real problems in this area. The main problem is that the heightened perceptive awareness which goes with spirit powers is given an over-significance. In other words, persons with spirit powers often assume they know almost all there is to know, or at least all that is relevant, and they are some sort of gods for knowing something others don't know. Without this error, the meditation type religions would probably not exist. What else do they produce besides such godliness?

A lot of the hard core atheism stems from higher spiritual states, where the persons assume they know so much and are such gods that they don't have to answer to anyone. They deny the existence of the spirit world to eliminate accountability knowing it is a lie.

They error in assuming that what they perceive is all there is to know. In fact, they know so little that they are close to brain dead, and they don't know how stupid they really are.

For example, they assume that you can control people through intimidation and coercion and achieve some lasting and meaningful results. They don't know that the victims are just waiting for a chance to strike back, which eventually they do. In other words, they assume that conflict resolution is achieved through intimidation and coercion rather than morality and truth. This error is inherent and quite observable in all wars.

Even at the most innocuous level one notices the erroneous assumption that perception is complete awareness. This occurs in many of the "near death experiences". The experiencers often view their lives in a way which they consider to be total awareness. Afterwards, they can't really explain it, but they tend to improve the way they live. They tend to not notice that Christ and the prophets already described everything they experienced including the correct path for improvement. Their perceptive experience didn't tell them all of that.