GOD IS AS WE ARE
WHO IS GOD?
Stage One: Fight-or-Flight Response: God the Protector
Vengeful
Capricious
Quick to anger
Jealous
Judgmental–meting out reward and punishment
Unfathomable
Sometimes merciful
Stage Two: Reactive Response: God the Almighty
Sovereign
Omnipotent
Just
Answerer of prayers
Impartial
Rational
Organized into rules
Stage Three: Restful Awareness Response: God of Peace
Detached
Calm
Offering consolation
Undemanding
Conciliatory
Silent
Meditative
Stage Four: Intuitive Response: God the Redeemer
Understanding
Tolerant
Forgiving
Nonjudgmental
Inclusive
Accepting
Stage Five: Creative Response: God the Creator
Unlimited creative potential
Control over space and time
Abundant
Open
Generous
Willing to be known
Inspired
Stage Six: Visionary Response: God of Miracles
Transformative
Mystical
Enlightened
Beyond all causes
Existing
Healing
Magical
Alchemist
Stage Seven: Sacred Response: God of Pure Being–“I Am”
Unborn
Undying
Unchanging
Unmoving
Unmanifest
Immeasurable
Invisible
Intangible
Infinite
WHAT KIND OF WORLD DID GOD CREATE?
Stage 1: Fight-or-Flight Response: World of bare survival
Stage 2: Reactive Response: World of competition and ambition
Stage 3: Restful Awareness Response: World of inner solitude, self-sufficiency
Stage 4: Intuitive Response: World of insight, personal growth
Stage 5: Creative Response: World of art, invention, discovery
Stage 6: Visionary Response: World of prophets, sages, and seers
Stage 7: Sacred Response: Transcendent world
WHO AM I?
Stage 1: Fight-or-Flight Response: A survivor
Stage 2: Reactive Response: Ego, personality
Stage 3: Restful Awareness Response: Silent witness
Stage 4: Intuitive Response: Knower within
Stage 5: Creative Response: Co-creator
Stage 6: Visionary Response: Enlightened awareness
Stage 7: Sacred Response: The source
HOW DO I FIT IN?
Stage 1: Fight-or-Flight Response: I cope.
Stage 2: Reactive Response: I win.
Stage 3: Restful Awareness Response: I stay centered.
Stage 4: Intuitive Response: I understand.
Stage 5: Creative Response: I intend.
Stage 6: Visionary Response: I love.
Stage 7: Sacred Response: I am.
HOW DO I FIND GOD?
Stage 1: Fight-or-Flight Response: Fear, loving devotion
Stage 2: Reactive Response: Awe, obedience
Stage 3: Restful Awareness Response: Meditation, silent contemplation
Stage 4: Intuitive Response: Self-acceptance
Stage 5: Creative Response: Inspiration
Stage 6: Visionary Response: Grace
Stage 7: Sacred Response: By transcending
WHAT IS THE NATURE OF GOOD AND EVIL?
Stage 1: Fight-or-Flight Response
Good is safety, comfort, food, shelter and family.
Evil is physical threat and abandonment.
Stage 2: Reactive Response
Good is getting what you want.
Evil is any obstacle to getting what you want.
Stage 3: Restful Awareness Response
Good is clarity, inner calm, and contact with the self.
Evil is inner turmoil and chaos.
Stage 4: Intuitive Response
Good is clarity, seeing the truth.
Evil is blindness, denying the truth.
Stage 5: Creative Response
Good is higher consciousness.
Evil is lower consciousness.
Stage 6: Visionary Response
Good is a cosmic force.
Evil is another aspect of the same force.
Stage 7: Sacred Response
Good is the union of all opposites.
Evil no longer exists.
WHAT IS MY LIFE CHALLENGE?
Stage 1: Fight-or-Flight Response: To survive, protect, and maintain
Stage 2: Reactive Response: Maximum achievement
Stage 3: Restful Awareness Response: To be engaged and detached
Stage 4: Intuitive Response: To go beyond duality
Stage 5: Creative Response: To align with the Creator
Stage 6: Visionary Response: To attain liberation
Stage 7: Sacred Response: To be myself
WHAT IS MY GREATEST STRENGTH?
Stage 1: Fight-or-Flight Response: Courage
Stage 2: Reactive Response: Accomplishment
Stage 3: Restful Awareness Response: Autonomy
Stage 4: Intuitive Response: Insight
Stage 5: Creative Response: Imagination
Stage 6: Visionary Response: Holiness
Stage 7: Sacred Response: Unity
WHAT IS MY BIGGEST HURDLE?
Stage 1: Fight-or-Flight Response: Fear of loss, abandonment
Stage 2: Reactive Response: Guilt, victimization
Stage 3: Restful Awareness Response: Fatalism
Stage 4: Intuitive Response: Delusion
Stage 5: Creative Response: Self-importance
Stage 6: Visionary Response: False idealism
Stage 7: Sacred Response: Duality
WHAT IS MY GREATEST TEMPTATION?
Stage 1: Fight-or-Flight Response: Tyranny
Stage 2: Reactive Response: Addiction
Stage 3: Restful Awareness Response: Introversion
Stage 4: Intuitive Response: Deception
Stage 5: Creative Response: Solipsism
Stage 6: Visionary Response: Martyrdom
Stage 7: Sacred Response: Beyond temptation
GETTING WHAT YOU WANT
The Seven Levels of Fulfillment
God is another name for infinite intelligence. To achieve anything in life, a piece of this intelligence must be contacted and used. In other words, God is always there for you. The seven responses of the human brain are avenues to attain some aspect of God. Each level of fulfillment proves God’s reality at that level.
Level 1 (Fight-or-Flight Response)
You fulfill your life through family, community, a sense of belonging, and material comforts.
Level 2 (Reactive Response)
You fulfill your life through success, power, influence, status, and other ego satisfactions.
Level 3 (Restful Awareness Response)
You fulfill your life through peace, centeredness, self acceptance, and inner silence.
Level 4 (Intuitive Response)
You fulfill your life through insight, empathy, tolerance, and forgiveness.
Level 5 (Creative Response)
You fulfill your life through inspiration, expanded creativity in art or science, and unlimited discovery.
Level 6 (Visionary Response)
You fulfill your life through reverence, compassion, devoted service, and universal love.
Level 7 (Sacred Response)
You fulfill your life through wholeness and unity with the divine.
The Seven Levels of Miracles
A miracle is a display of power from beyond the five senses. Although all miracles take place in the transition zone, they differ from level to level. In general, miracles become more “supernatural” after the fourth or fifth brain response, but any miracle involves direct contact with spirit.
Level 1 (Fight-or-Flight Response)
Miracles involve surviving great danger, impossible rescues, a sense of divine protection.
Example: A mother who runs into a burning house to rescue her child, or lifts a car with a child trapped underneath
Level 2 (Reactive Response)
Miracles involve incredible achievements and success, control over the body or mind.
Example: Extreme feats of martial arts, child prodigies with inexplicable gifts in music or mathematics, the rise of a Napoleon from humble beginnings to immense power (men of destiny)
Level 3 (Restful Awareness Response)
Miracles involve synchronicity, yogic powers, premonitions, feeling the presence of God or angels.
Example: Yogis who can change body temperature or heart rate at will, being visited by someone from far away who has just died, visitation by a guardian angel
Level 4 (Intuitive Response)
Miracles involve telepathy, ESP, knowledge of past or future lifetimes, prophetic powers.
Example: Reading someone else’s thoughts or aura, psychic predictions, astral projection to other locations
Level 5 (Creative Response)
Miracles involve divine inspiration, artistic genius, spontaneous fulfillment of desires (wishes come true).
Example: The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, having a thought that suddenly manifests, Einstein’s insights into time and relativity
Level 6 (Visionary Response)
Miracles involve healing, physical transformations, holy apparitions, highest degree of supernatural feats.
Example: Walking on water, healing incurable diseases through touch, direct revelation from the Virgin Mary
Level 7 (Sacred Response)
Miracles involve inner evidence of enlightenment.
Example: Lives of the great prophets and teachers–Buddha, Jesus, Lao-Tze
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