Indications of Growth - Expanding the Boundaries

Shamanism for the Age of Science: Awakening the Energy Body - Kenneth Smith 2018


Indications of Growth
Expanding the Boundaries

Regardless of your stage of awareness, there are common traits that characterize growth. Only the degree of skill with these attributes separates one stage from another. Some of these qualities are:

1. Emotional equanimity, reflecting increased emotional intelligence. You have more peace and balance, both within and without your sense of self.

2. Fluency with logic, able to shift perception to at least entertain other viewpoints.

3. Holistic observation and participation with life, knowing yourself to be a part of life.

4. Enhanced sense of security.

5. Non-dogmatic approach to life; able to live and let live.

6. Well-defined principles to guide your personal life.

7. Goal oriented.

8. Engaged in learning.

9. A sense of becoming with an appreciation of being.

10. Behaving more spontaneous and less worried.

The stages reflect ever-increasing complexity of behavior, requiring the orchestration of different behaviors such as strategies, tactics, and general orientation. They also represent chunks of learning in both the first and second fields, and indicate the awakening of entire sections of the energy body. They pertain to how many emanations you align with and how well your internal energies resonate with them. The more cosmological emanations you touch, the more alive your energy body is; the more refined and harmonious the connection, the greater the awareness. Figure 4.1 illustrates this process.

Your sense of reasonableness may also quicken. This, though, hinges on your ability to integrate new relationships. You need to understand group consensus while not succumbing to it, for instance. This in turn corresponds to stretching the first-field order of what is known further into your energy body. Learning and imagination must support, balance, and stimulate each other. Reflecting this process, your baseline state of consciousness undergoes radical reformation at each level and often within a level.