I currently identify most closely to having only recently made the jump from pride to courage. It feels much like I finally got the momentum to jump out the pot, and now I must discover why the current surface I'm standing on is so hot and feels like teflon.
Now, forgive me, but looking at the poll I see that many folk identify with levels of consciousness well above courage - and especially given the approximate age of the majority of posters (20s - early 30s) I find that very difficult to believe.
For the vast majority of my life I was and have been surrounded by folk that would be identified by being at the levels of fear and desire. From what I've seen, the American media, advertising, and culture strongly supports this. To break away from that is very difficult, and even then you're at the level of pride. At pride you're very likely to identify yourself as higher than pride; I know I would have identified myself at reason, since I held logic and reason as a high value that I fully believed I lived.  |