Avatar Adi Da Samraj’s
Seven Stages of Life Overview
with Emphasis on the First Three Stages
The psycho-physical structures of the human being are at the “root” of each of the first six (or inherently egoic) stages of life. One mode or another of psycho-physics, gross to subtle to causal, is the “root” of each of the egoic stages of life. By examining the language, the proceedings, and the practices of any given tradition, it is possible to identify what stage of life is speaking through the philosophical language of that tradition.
When the language activity of the brain is reinforced to the point that it is more or less continuous, the whole body becomes possessed by the illusion that “I” is exclusively identical to the verbal and differentiated consciousness. Thus, thought becomes chronic, constant, out of control. There is fear of the loss of thought as well as anxiety about the inadequacy of thought—that is, the vulnerability of the self to experience, on account of the absence or weakness of knowledge. “I” and thought are felt to be identical. The self is believed to be exclusively within and above, in or at the brain.
This is the chronic state of the usual man. Observe it yourself. When you consider your foot, doesn’t it seem to be “down there”? The verbal and brain identification of self is merely a sign of arrested organ-adaptation, like neurotic fixation on the organs of the mouth, anus, or genitals. It is a sign of neurotic or problematic adaptation in the third stage of life. One must awaken as the whole body confession of self and become a total sacrifice, through radical intuition and love, into the All-pervading Divine Radiance and the Unqualified Consciousness or Divine Ignorance that precedes all mentality, high or low.
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