Reality (glossary entry)

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Levels of Reality

Notice the succession of four levels of phenomena: physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual/generative. I distinguish these as levels of reality, based on the observation that:

All living things are physical,
animals also have emotion,
human beings also have intellect,
and some but not all human beings achieve spirituality.

This is an evolution that occurred through time: living things first, then animals with emotion, then human beings, then human experience of spirituality.

When viewed independently from this evolutionary progression, the four levels can also be called aspects of existence.

level	name	archetypes	origin

4	spiritual	King and Queen	advanced Human culture (see initiation)
3	mental / intellectual	Magician and Crone	cognition (principly in humans)
2	emotional	Lover and Mother	reptiles
1	physical	Warrior and Maiden	beginning of universe

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