Alt Stage Six
An early concept artwork created for Stage Six of the personal-development model, later set aside as the official piece — illustrating how compartmentalized that stage is while still holding many interconnections.
Student Questions – Starting To Mentor Others
Encouragement and answers for people beginning to mentor others through the developmental journey, addressing common fears about readiness and worthiness and stressing that lived experience, not expertise, is enough to guide someone from Stage Six onward.
Following Sandards That Are Wrong For Me Pulls Me Back To Stage Six, And How To Get Back To Stage Eight And Higher
A personal essay on how creativity flows freely in Stages Eight and higher but stalls in earlier stages — tracing how the demands of marketing a finished book, album, and art pulled the author back to Stage Six, and how questioning those rules restored the flow.
Stage 6 – Connecting To Others – Forgiving And Accepting Others As Human
A Stage Six teaching on forgiving and accepting others — even those who wronged you — as flawed humans, releasing grudges to free your time and attention, while still taking practical steps to protect yourself from genuine danger.
Stage 6 – Connecting To Others – Seeing Yourself In Others
A Stage Six exercise for seeing every person — liked or disliked — as a reflection of some past, present, or future aspect of yourself, and for consciously connecting to the divine light within each one to deepen compassion.
Stage 6 – Connecting To Your Heart – Breaking The Trance Of Unworthiness
A Stage Six teaching on breaking the trance of unworthiness seeded in early childhood, learning to feel the divine light of love within, and becoming the unconditionally loving parent-figure for oneself.
Stage 6 – Connecting To Your Body – Setting Goals And Making Progress
A Stage Six teaching on connecting to the body by setting specific, measurable, attainable goals for nutrition, exercise, and overall wellbeing, breaking them into weekly and daily milestones and celebrating progress along the way.
Stage 6 – Connecting To Yourself – Forgiving And Accepting Yourself As Human
A Stage Six teaching on forgiving oneself for past regrets and accepting one’s ongoing humanity — seeing the earlier self with compassion, learning from mistakes, and designing the future instead of reliving the past.
Stage 6 – Connecting To Yourself – Taking Responsibility For Your Life
A Stage Six teaching on taking full responsibility and authority for one’s own life — recognizing that one’s own choices, not other people, cause and can solve most problems — as the foundation for lasting change.