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1. Cognition based on mental propositions derived from shaped-body experiences, manifesting as pleasure and pain, without the conditional presence of an observer.
2. Cognition based on the first level, but now with the conditional presence of an observer, or with interfering observational presence.
3. Cognition based on cause-and-effect mental propositions, where there is interfering conditional presence of an observer, often in the form of imposed beliefs.
4. Cognition based on the same cause-and-effect mental propositions from level (3), but without the interfering conditional presence of a resident observer, achieved through one’s own shaped-body experiences or by encountering the shaped bodies of others.
5. Cognition based on noticing the differences, mismatches, or significant contradictions between levels (3) and (4).
6. Cognition arising from the recognition of the ineffectiveness of the illusory mind, leading to a transition of mental propositions into the space of rational experience.
7. Cognition based on the presence of the heart, accomplished through the removal of the illusory mind.
The seventh level begins with the appearance of a guide (or mentor), whose necessity is felt from the fifth level onward. Humans encounter the guide (or mentor) according to the functioning of their unconscious mind at level (5). However, due to lack of alignment at level (6) and because of the dominance of the illusory mind over them, they lose connection with the guide. If the individual does not return to level (5) and actively seek the guide, they will fall into confusion. They will face the sealing of the heart, veiling of the senses, and a regressive (degenerative) trajectory of the mind.