Consciousness second edition
The development of human awareness
1. Funktioning with innate impulses
* Innate impulses express pure instinct
* Instinct includes emotions and the expression thereof
2. Functioning with unconsciously recognised patterns
* Using unconscious patterns and symbols to understand and to express feeling
* Symbolic stories, rituals, signals... are understood as a whole, without reasoning
3. Functioning with the impulses of wanting and power
* The extasy of being the moving power
4. Functioning, bound in a tradition
* Experiencing the security of following an example
* Experiencing the security of a sure truth
5. Being at home in oneself
* Recognising the themes and the validity of the own thinking
6. Being at home in the own chosen group(s)
* Being able and willing to understand another person, also emotionally
7. Being at home in the world
* Recognising that other groups, all groups, have the same validity.
8. Being at home in creation
* Recognising that the aim of being is growing, developing
* Recognising that everybody and every thing is in a necessary phase in a good development.