Each person experiences seven distinct graduations of consciousness between birth and death.
- 0 – 3 years Infant
- 4 - 7 years Child
- 8 - 13 years Puberty
- 14 – 21 years Teen
- 21 - 42 years Steward
- 42 - 63 years Master
- 63 - 84 years Sage
Each stage of consciousness serves to quantify and qualify graduated perceptions of space and time.
Beginning with the naïve right-brain consciousness of the infant, in which time and space remain relative and fixed in the here and now, as time passes a sense of past/present/future begins to impinge on the budding consciousness.
Around the seventh year the left side of the brain comes fully into play. From then onwards each successive stage of growth starts to measure and evaluate time and space in increasingly finer divisions.
In the final stage of life, the relative nature of time and space returns to mind.
Any premature effort that artificially interferes with this sequence, which allows for a sub-conscious perception of one’s natural position in the space/time consortium, tends to distort the maturation process. As a result, a clear sense of adulthood may not be achieved.
Artificial interference can manifest distortions physically. In some instances a confused psychological relation to space and time is severe enough for the body itself not to receive the correct signals and remain boyish or girlish, never to mature into its natural adult mass.
Thus early gains in precocious intellectual smarts during infancy and childhood, encouraged by head start educational programs, can end up robbing the individual of a full and natural appreciation of adult being-ness.
