When the soul enters this stage, it has already come to know that there is no true joy or pleasure in the subjective world. Experiences in this world start to feel like mere pastimes or like you are not doing what you are truly meant to do, leaving a persistent feeling of dissatisfaction.
Thus, even if you try out material pleasures or social roles, you can’t shake off the sense of emptiness, lack of fulfillment, or the feeling that you don’t belong.
A soul at this stage is already oriented toward returning to cosmic consciousness.
So, accumulating more experiences on the stage of society, or performing the roles you are assigned, no longer bring a sense of satisfaction.
You are left with the unshakable feeling that you belong somewhere else or have a different role to play.
At this stage, the soul’s next typical challenge is spirituality, occult studies, or spiritual practice.
People attracted to these may be seeking paranormal experiences or states of meditation. However, what the soul truly seeks is confirmation that this world is an illusion.
By now, self-awareness cannot be satisfied by the idea that the world operates only through social or physical phenomena. The sense of discomfort has grown too great to ignore. So, the soul wants to confirm its own sense of dissonance and update its understanding of the world.
To go beyond surface-level knowledge and understanding, self-awareness needs direct experience. That’s why this stage often involves entering a process of experiencing the extraordinary through meditation or spiritual training.
To experience extraordinary or supernatural phenomena through meditation or spiritual practice.
This rewrites the self-awareness’s “understanding of the world.”
Becoming attached to experiences gained through meditation or spiritual practice leads to stagnation.
To move to the next step, you must be willing to let go of the experience itself as your goal.
Being deceived by false practices, occultism, or spiritual scams.
There is a trap of getting caught up in desires again.
Those who deceive are usually seeking power, money, or fame—they are still in Step 1, “to experience,” and can pull you back into that phase.
You must be careful not to get caught up in such things.