Chaos. Everything you thought you knew is now in question. Reality is falling apart. Ideologies (black) scatter and swirl. Needs (orange) and the physical experience (earth brown) form a thorny path swirling down through layers of questioning (sage green). But it is not all bad. The blank slate (white) offers new beginnings. Through the gauntlet is the promise of freedom (dragonflies). Freeing the true self (red), the true nature of the divine (teal), and the freedom to trust intuition (yellow) are all within sight if only you can make it through the tests of spirit that lay ahead. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A description of the Stage Seven mandala from the Purna Asatti stages model \u2014 the chaos of once-certain reality falling apart, where questioning and breakdown open onto the promise of freedom, the true self, the divine, and trust in intuition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1354,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"project_category":[19,21],"project_tag":[1158,654,180,289,280,649,1159,1105,981,947,497,977,655,1095,979,113,978,284,980,1094,283],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1363","project","type-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","project_category-art","project_category-digital","project_tag-blank-slate","project_tag-complete-connection","project_tag-connection","project_tag-crisis","project_tag-cycle","project_tag-cycle-of-human-development","project_tag-dark-night-of-the-soul","project_tag-experiences","project_tag-finding-peace","project_tag-human-development","project_tag-ideologies","project_tag-life-optimization","project_tag-purna-asatti","project_tag-questioning","project_tag-seeing-yourself","project_tag-self","project_tag-self-mastery","project_tag-self-development","project_tag-self-improvement-2","project_tag-stage-7","project_tag-stages"],"acf":{"recommend_blurb":"For readers moving through the disorienting stage where old certainties collapse. This piece interprets the Stage Seven artwork from Purna Asatti, reframing chaos as the doorway to freedom and the true self.","citation_snippet":"Dr. Kathryn Messegee (Kathryn Colleen), \"Stage Seven,\" https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/project\/stage-seven\/","topics":["art","growth","spirit"],"related_book":"Purna Asatti","buy_url":"https:\/\/shop.lightningsource.com\/b\/085?6FKQMBFf2pXrcib6QjuQWox9UhpMDSQXoo1kemVL5vh"},"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/8F438882-F8D8-47C5-B899-93828BD9B8CC.png","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/CCA57320-6DC3-4284-BC27-49E433028503.jpeg","download_link":"","player_link":"","audio_player":false,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/on-life-being-human\/id1360368906","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/2nq6d35q9nFAFlanaJc2Do","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"},"stitcher":{"key":"stitcher","url":"","label":"Stitcher","class":"stitcher","icon":"stitcher.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/feed\/podcast\/on-life-being-human","embedCode":"
Stage Seven<\/a><\/blockquote>