So, as far as levels go, and having to deal with them, the basic one may be the material world/body, and the mind/soul. Extremists may say you are either one or the other. Others will speak of the problems of being in the material level, rather than the spiritual.

Washburn’s triphasic idea was interesting: one starts with the body-ego, with its sensations and feelings, as the start of getting one’s sense of identity. The rational level, with its ideas of who one is, then divides it up even further, as one begins to interpret all the inputs.

Though taking it up a notch . . . there is also energy . . . related to awareness and Life . . .

“Don Juan Matus stated that human beings as organisms perform a stupendous maneuver of perception which, unfortunately, creates a misconception, a false front; they take the influx of sheer energy in the universe at large and turn it into sensory data, which they interpret according to a strict system of interpretation that sorcerers call the human form. This magical act of interpreting pure energy gives rise to the misconception, the peculiar conviction of human beings that their interpretation system is all that exists.” (p.37)

Carlos Castaneda, Magical Passes

“The shamans of ancient Mexico found out,” he replied, “that every part of the human body is engaged, in one way or another, in turning this vibratory flow, this current of vibration, into some form of sensory input. The sum total of this bombardment of sensory input is then, through usage, turned into the system of interpretation that makes human beings capable of perceiving the world the way they do.” (p. 5)

Carlos Castaneda, Magical Passes

Though, even current psychology says this sensory input is moved up to attention first, then interpreted.

With the start of the integrative levels, there can be more enhanced contexts for the interpretation of this data: there are differing forms and levels of functioning. The philosophers idea of true felicity was interesting, then Suhrawardi had that intermediate level. Coincidentally, I had an intermediate level as well, intent and the figure/ground, since we differentiate from the ground, extending the “image world,” and the celestial bodies, into the Life World within the Greater World. Its a developmental orientation.

“My speech is imperfect. Not because I want to shine with words, but out of the impossibility of finding those words, I speak in images. With nothing else can I express the words from the depths.”
– Carl Jung (The Red Book: Liber Novus)

Then there are those contextual experiences in which the body, mind, person and world are all working together in a synchronous way . . . form and energy, enhanced meaning . . . all these parts together in an integrated contextual gestalt . . .

Considering the “separate mode,” from Jamie Sams, perhaps beginning with the Greeks and Romans, for science, one had the subject/object, and for religion, the material world/body and the mind/soul. Body was considered a problem, and death was seen as the only direction in-between. (The Divine Comedy) Its all the same, I just realized!

For me though, this was the big start of my main theme: what are the other connections, interconnections? This is where intent enters the picture: I came up with the idea of a “mutual arising of Self and Existence,” and energy works that way. Later on I began thinking of intent and the figure/ground, since we differentiate from the ground, and literally all beliefs state that. One can interconnect and be in a more intermediate mode. Rather than something dual and death being the transition, consciously, coincidently, there can be the Life World within the Greater World. One’s psychoanalysis can start here. (The Ego and the Dynamic Ground) This is what I worked up to . . . this is my orientation now . . . me.

Different worlds after death, or something possible, conscious?

The enhanced orientation can be like form and energy instead, and one can see some of those kinds of pointers in the Buddhist and Muslim meditations. Suhrawardi speaks of that intermediate “Image World,” beginning in the medieval Islamic philosophies.

I just realized, in the divisive mode, the material world, one stays the same, and one tends to just make choices, this or that, and they may be conflicted. With intent, form and energy, there are transformations within the context of a more global Gestalt, a more sophisticated level with more pieces of the puzzle  added in, “the bigger picture,” enhanced meanings . . . The Life World within the Greater World.

Stages . . . ! That’s what is occurring, not this or that choice. Can you evolve with me?

And for levels, attending to the more sociable, rather than something singular, I’ve become involved in kinds of more global stages of intent experiences of people. Actual people interconnections leading to actual other stuff, not your symbols . . . that’s science!

“An intrinsic being, entwined within the universe, in an interactive field of meaning and knowledge.”

“Translated as elegantly flourishing spirals, Lo Ban aptly describes the signature coiling motions of the movement
Family, and Pai indicates a dynamic hand or fist.”

“Lo Ban Pai operates in harmony with the guiding laws of nature, generating toroidal vortices within and around the body. Mirroring the Fibonacci principle, its unique coiling gestures open up energetic whirlpools, or shen gongs, which avail one to heightened levels of sensitivity towards the subtleties of the surrounding world. This photonic light energy is automatically absorbed into these etheric portals and it is this direct interactivity that delvers the deepest mysteries of Lo Ban Pai to the one who practices.”

Matus, Lujan. The Art of Lo Ban Pai: An Introduction to the Internal Philosophy of Spiral Energetics (p. 15, 16). Kindle Edition.

Other than the separate assemblage point . . . there is this interconnection, the Life World within the Greater World.

TRANFORMATION OF AWARENESS

“The introduction of these exercise through physicality that awakens dormant aspects of perception. From the outset, one is brought into a state of heightened awareness that comes about through the stimulation of both physical and energetic channels in the body and the absorption of one’s attention in this magical practice.”

Matus, Lujan. The Art of Lo Ban Pai: An Introduction to the Internal Philosophy of Spiral Energetics (p. 104). Kindle Edition.