Stage Two

The divine nature (teal) starts to move away from the main focus while the true self (red) sends forth various experiences to teach and form the person into who they will need to be to carry out their purpose. Experiences are scattered and seemingly separate. Here, bubbles represent lessons to be learned, sage green represents the physical experiences themselves, earth brown represents the physical body, and tan represents how we attempt to encapsulate these experiences and make sense of them. The birth experience (bottom left) is never encapsulated. In some schools of Psychology, this leads to issues later in life. There is a feeling that experiences become etched within our physical body as we encapsulate them. Experiences are seen as sometimes only partly encapsulated or understood, and sometimes not at all. As we flow towards the bottom right, experiences become more detailed, more concretely encapsulated and more deeply etched into the physical body. We begin to think that we understand, but experiences often get away from us as seen with the chaos flower overflowing its bounds of understanding at the bottom right. Within that part of the piece is an area of great detail. This trapezoid (because experiences are hard to encapsulate) is divided using the golden ratio as a metaphor for the natural arrival of experiences. Out of the smallest divisions grows a sequence of experiences that include breast, feeling fed, face, natural world, etc. The seemingly chaotic nature of experiences seems to flow out in an attempt to connect them. There is a sense of looking up at the stars (top right) and the ever present nature of the physical universe looking on. The clash between the teal color of the universe / divine and the sage green of experiences at this stage is intentional. There is a sense of discomfort as our experiences may not at first seem to be in harmony with the divine (why is this happening to me?).