Are the cognitive scientific models of how the brain and mind work supposed to be part of that conditioning which should be dispensed with? My writings do assume a naturalistic philosophy that takes science for granted as the source of our most objective and useful models of how things work.

By "consciousness," then, I have in mind how organisms become aware of their surroundings, which happens via the senses and/or the conceptual models. As a mystic, you have in mind a "deeper" sense of consciousness, but that seems to be one that questions the whole scientific enterprise. I question science, too, with a pragmatic account of knowledge and with a sociological view of humanism. But I don't dismiss scientific knowledge as mere conditioning or illusion.