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The Map
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The more we listen to this awakening part of ourselves, and the more we transform our new insights into action, the faster we progress to higher stages.
One Year to the Stability of PHASE 3 Most people reach this stable phase in ten to twelve months. How long it takes in a specific case depends on the intensity of our desire to explore higher levels and how much energy we invest to really experience this.
The Static Character of STAGE 4 The stable third phase of STAGE 4 is highly static. Here we get easily trapped in a complacency that blocks all access to higher levels.
This often manifests
• as smug, self-satisfied contentment with the continuity with which we seem to grow as the stubborn conviction that we are progressing well on our path to real sovereignty as a preference for ritual and (spiritual) techniques instead of investing energy in gaining real understanding as a tendency to lean back in a supposedly 'detached' way and to observe, - rather than actively shaping our life along the new possibilities at our disposal now and facing the corresponding (possibly uncomfortable) challenges as a reluctance to define real higher goals for us, and