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Unlimited Horizons
continuous inner comments on other drivers' styles when we steer our car. We only need to remember social meetings where we can hardly wait to talk of our own experiences - without ever hearing what others say.
Intense shocks sometimes alert us to this condition, but we have no idea how to extract our attention from this almost hypnotic state. None of the goals we pursue on this level lead to the stable experience of higher stages.
All convictions, opinions and viewpoint, all philosophies and belief systems we found our life on - irrespective if we developed them on our own or accepted them from others - retain us on this stage. Even if presented with information that might lead out of this, we either are incapable of recognizing it, take it for false, reject it because it irritates us, or deem our current ideas far superior.
Yet it is easy to find the way out of this stage. We only need to grasp growth-opportunities we previously rejected. We only need to courageously try out new avenues that make us break out of the known circle of our life. We only need to physically manifest all those ideas we only dreamt about so far.
Without this sense of adventure we remain subjected to the inertia, the arbitrariness and the emotional chaos of STAGE 1 till our life ends.
How to Shift to a Higher Stage Would it be known how easy it is to permanently shift focus to higher stages, far more would go for it. Everyone has this ability.