PEACEFUL HEART, WARRIOR SPIRIT: The True Story of my Spiritual Quest by Dan Millman

Author:Dan Millman
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2021-12-17T16:00:00+00:00

The Seven Stages

A few weeks later, the Guru outlined what he called the seven stages of life, a hierarchical model of the evolution of consciousness, which, unsurprisingly, put his level of realization into its proper context. The first three stages each take seven years: first, physical embodiment, then emotional-sexual development, then higher mental functions culminating in a strong will, ideally by twenty-one years of age. Few humans emerge fully mature or prepared for the later stages.

The fourth, fifth, and sixth stages (which have no time frame) are dependent on the first three and represent “becoming fully human.” The fourth stage manifests as a transition from gross to subtle levels of being, a natural urge to love and serve (but where God is still viewed as an “other”). The fifth, or mystical, stage of life is characterized by absorption in light, wherein spiritual or psychic experiences and ecstatic visions may appear.

Sixth-stage realizers such as Jesus, Buddha, Muhammad, and lesser-known figures like Ramana Maharshi abide in and as consciousness itself, free of any apparent conditions or limitations.

The Guru claimed that he alone had attained the seventh stage, which he described as “a new possibility where there exists no separation, only God.”

His message was that no search is necessary; that there is nothing to be achieved but only realized — we need only awaken to what is “always, already the case.” This transcendent message, expressed in the pages of his early works, had first drawn me to the Guru like a moth to the flame.

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