As you may have noticed, we are not all born with the same level of
consciousness. Some come out screaming and complaining, and stay that way,
while others are much more calm, intelligent and attentive. And fun.

    The process could be seen as thus.
The basic stage is the foundation. The second stage is reproduction.
The third stage is survival -- and has two aspects: Fight or Flight.
The forth stage is enquiry/curiosity. The fifth stage the flowering of the
searching -- which blossoms into unsentimental and non-personal love and
caring. The sixth stage is, through the love and caring, attempting to share
the realisations of the realisations. The seventh stage is the realisation
that, to put it very simply, we are all one. The eighth stage is entering
into that oneness. The ninth stage is totally dissolving into that oneness
-- ascension.

    Due to our restrictive sexual conditioning most people never really get
clear of stage two. Sex is never really comfortable and natural to them. It
stays lust, desire, obsession, or guilt -- rather than an expression of
love.

The fourth stage is a stage where most people choose to get very stuck.
Its like this. Nearly all of us are frustrated as children -- we don't like
being told what we can and cannot do, and often what we want to do is
natural for us -- so in addition to any anger we came to this world with, we
get even more angry. Because we are conditioned into believing anger is
wrong, we suppress it -- as much as we can. As mentioned, it seems we are
born with varying levels of this anger depending on the level of development
with which we were born.

Anger is poison -- so the self-healing system does everything it can to
discharge the anger. If we suppress it strongly enough it goes into our
immune defences -- and we get ill. The other method is discharging.

Because we have been taught that anger is wrong we do not just let it be --
not suppressing and not expressing -- unknowingly we are looking for a valid
excuse to discharge at someone. If we are unhappy it is someone else's
fault. Trouble is, discharging that way does not work -- in fact it becomes
addictive. As we discharge it loops around and comes back to us. The wheel
of Samsara; as we sow, so we reap. So most people get stuck there. Very
stuck.

The fifth stage is our possibility of release, and freedom. A possible
turning point. Trouble is we are not even told about this stage let alone
encouraged to experiment. We are trained to be zombies.

From the fifth everything is much easier. When we start to let go of what we
have been told about what is and is not, good and bad, right and wrong,
benefit and harm, possible and impossible, and look for ourselves, many
things start to clear. We can look at the fourth stage and see its
handicaps, and start to disconnect. With this opening we pass into a stage
of feeling blessed. We realise that nothing is ever against us -- in fact,
everything, every single thing is for us. The fear that has haunted us all
our lives dissolves. Wonderful.

Then at the sixth we start to see what we can do and share with/for others.
Not an easy stage! Most people are so asleep, and dreaming they are awake.
They are addicted to their suffering and complaining. Their story is their
definition to/of themselves. And we try to share anyway. Unconditional love
is the healing element

    (Have you seen that photograph on the web of the impossibly thin
starving black child -- with the Vulture sitting waiting?)

The seventh is a whole new realisation -- that we are indeed all one.
Everything and everyone is/are interconnected.

In the eighth stage we enter the oneness -- while still retaining the
awareness of a consciousness. This is a lot of fun. Real freedom.

The ninth. Gone, gone, gone forever -- dissolved into the unformed.
Except, there is no forever -- only now.

    So, supporting the levels of sex and anger are the ones we need to
acknowledge and transcend. Not so easy. It is so much easier to blame.
After those two are acknowledged the worst is over and we are on the way
home. And it can happen in an instant. In fact it usually does.