What has been called "internal monads" are life transitions within the lifetime between perspectives. They are the punctuation points of the personality's journey of growth.

These processes are all concerned with the discovery of self. These discoveries and transitions are not imposed, but rather chosen. They are not a lesson plan, but instead an focus of learning, first on uniqueness and distinctness, and then on transcending physical identity and limits. From the view of internal monads, a lifetime is a journey first of differentiation (the first three monads), and then expanding self past physical limitations (the last three). It is a journey from the self to the Self.

Again, if you would like to look at all the internal monads, you will see that all of them are nothing but manifesting different phases of who you are. At birth, you're in a body. You have to learn detachment from who you were to connect to your body - that's a part of who you are. The second internal monad is detachment and separation from those who surround you and nurture you. The third internal monad is a further separation, moving into your own autonomy as an individual in the society you live in. The fourth internal monad is a separation energetically, not so much physically, again leaving you to manifest more of who you are, more independant of the role you learned to play in your family. The remaining monads bring more of your non-physical nature.  And each time you are changing your perception as you begin to manifest more of who you are until, through the seventh internal monad, you are left with nothing but who you are - pure energy.

FIRST MONAD (Birth)

SECOND MONAD (Childhood)

During the first two years of life there is a growing attachment to being in the physical body, but awareness has not been fully anchored in it. The reality of astral guides - from the dream worlds you always inhabit - can make as much sense at that age as what is physically seen by the eyes. The second transition is the creation of a separate emotional and mental identity, which is a further anchoring to the physical plane centered around the second chakra. It is a transition to operating with the knowledge that your desires, worldview and emotional reactions are not that of your parents and providers. This transition normally starts around age 2.

THIRD MONAD ("out of the nest")

FOURTH MONAD (manifestation of essence)

The "life crisis" has been thought to be a difficult and traumatic encounter, where careers are changed, and relationships can end. This is largely untrue. A universal expression of essence manifestation is fluidity and effortless movement in life. Difficulty only results when the urges and echoes from within are struggled against. The expansive manifestation of this transition is Self-Realization, which can also be called "conscious creation".

Conscious creation by definition is the manifestation of essence. The converse is also valid: conscious creation is near impossible without the inclusion of essence.

FIFTH MONAD (Senior Citizen)

+Appreciation -Evaluation

Karen did channeling during a workshop on this transition. You can read more on Details of the 5th Internal Monad at Twin Oaks and the earlier Channeling on the 5th Internal Monad.

The fifth transition triggered by some recognition that most of the life has already been lived. There is awareness that while death is not imminent, it is inevitable. This triggers a life review, where choices of the life thus lived may relax into a greater surrender and acceptance. This corresponds loosely to the old-soul perspective.

The transition starts with a "going-within", that is, a reflection on one's life and one's accomplishments, balancing this with what the fragment had aspired to accomplish during the lifetime. Often there is a reflection of agreements, karma, etc along with past-life associations and lessons that have come to bear during the present life. Thismonad is a time for reflection, not action.

The choice at this point is whether to embrace the changes that are occurring or to resist them further. These changes may be societal (retirement), in the physical body (a physical degradation) or in emotions and hormonal changes. A greater detachment is invited which involves moving in to the intrinsic knowledge that comes with being a senior citizen. Because this cultural largely dismisses wisdom that comes from the ultimately, there can be a lack of cultural support for embracing this transition and the inherent power that comes from surrendering to it. Historically, fragments entering their "senior" years were revered and honored. Their gifts were recognized and they were kept as important functioning members of their communities.

In the beginning of this process, there can be a level of isolation because of the review involved in this process. However, this transition can also in its more expansive manifestations create what looks like a more extroverted personality because there is less attachments to identity and societal roles. There can be more freedom, more acting without restraint in harmony with essence, and more living the archetype of the "wise teacher". Confidence comes from a greater awareness of the connections to essence. Even if the physical body decays and dies this connection will never be lost. You can see how this requires a relaxation away from societal image of what "being a person" means. It is the appreciation of all that being physical means that leads one to the detachment and power that comes from this transition.

SIXTH MONAD (Dying)

+Catharsis -Capitulation

The sixth internal monad gets one ready physically to no longer require the body for operation. This requires a further acceptance and relaxation into and away from the body. It is humorously ironic that it takes you a lifetime to be comfortable with your body, and it is often only in this life transition that complete detachment and acceptance occurs. After expansively finishing the fifth internal monad you finally accept this body that you have, and then you move into the sixth internal monad where it's time to give it up again. Most times it manifest as a physical deterioration to prepare one for moving away from the body.

Physical aspects aside, the sixth internal monad is at its fundamental level a complete relaxation into Self. Why does this manifest as physical deterioration? Self is not the body, but is rather connected to the physical plane and the body. This complete relaxation into self is about getting ready to accept the self as the Self that is detached from the body. You connect to this Self through every dream you have, but this monad is about bringing the greater awareness into the perception you live through, even if it means a great detachment from the body.

Understand that part of the acceptance of the body that comes from the fifth internal monad could be manifesting elements of deterioration that give you something more to work on in terms of accepting about yourself. The sixth internal monad, then, is both more removed and further than that, and tends to move you into a place, again, where you become more ready to separate from your body and separate from the attachment of "this body is me, is who I am", and a deeper sense of realization that you are this inner soul, this essence within you. Your sense of identity is now largely as the essence, rather than as a being who has a connection to something greater than you that is you.

The sixth internal monad tends to move you into a placewhere you become more ready to separate from your body and separate from the attachment of "this body is me, is who I am", and a deeper sense of realization that you are this inner soul, this essence within you. That is who you are and the body is just a piece of clothing that you wear for particular lifetime.

When a person starts the sixth, do they noticeably start sleeping more and spend more astral time than before, as a general principle. Because you are less attached to the body, you're spending more time astrally. This process can take several years or it can happen very quickly, depending on how attached you are already to your body and many other factors.

What is viewed culturally and societally as dementia is something that can arise in either the fifth internal monad or the sixth.  It is more typical within the sixth internal monad, because that is again part of this separation from body, and what is really occurring during what is seen as dementia is simply that the person on an essence level is moving away from having a strong connection with the body and is exploring other projects and other ways of being. There can be fears attached to this which then have other repercussions. The person can move in and out of those states which can be very perplexing to others and rather confusing for the individual themselves, who finds cognitive moments and then moments of this other reality and having trouble relating the one to the other. It also can occur within the context of the fifth internal monad, and that tends to be more of a life choice to experience other realities, to experience reality as themselves as an earlier person in that lifetime or experience more astral level interaction.

SEVENTH MONAD (Death)

+Rebirth -Death

This transition is the dying process itself. The connection to the physical body is transcended and released and there is a final physical surrender to the greater self, the essence that has always being there. Depending on the resistance to this process, there can be absolute elation or incredible pain. The human body - and the bodies of all species on the physical plane - are built so that detachment and disconnection is facilitated during trauma or when death is imminent. However, any belief that one must cling to the body at all costs will block this intrinsic knowledge.

While this transition begins on the physical plane, it ends on the astral plane with the help of your guides and teachers. There is always assistance and support. After it is completed the life review begins, which will take some 'time' on the astral plane. (Time does not function in a similar manner in that reality)

This transition requires a great adjustment in your perception; there is a large difference in perceptual input between the senses of your body on the physical plane and the expanded inputs that come your greater self on the astral plane. This adjustment that begins during the sixth transition grows to a rushing pace during the death process itself.

To those unfamiliar with out of body experience this can be replete with anxiety. Assistance can be given by surrounding those dying process with centered hospice workers who support the emotional, physical and mental release necessary. Helpful support is largely not through intellectual counseling, but rather through symbolic teachings and right brain activity such as through archetypes, shamanism and song. Being in the presence of the rush of energy that comes through death can be a great support to those living as it fuels their own transitions and helps one connect in a greater fashion to their own greater self that is always present within, transcending, beyond the body throughout all periods of life.

Commentary

While these transitions are presented as linear, the process is experienced linearly only in extremely rare cases. Moving to another transition is not like moving from grade three to grade four, for example. It is always an evolving process, and there is continual review and opportunity for new choices and expanding perspectives at any point of life. You can always choose to go back and look at something again. You are never restricted by past choices. You also can choose to stop the progress through an internal monad for a time and pick it up later if you want - or choose not to. You can also do it in another lifetime. Interestingly enough, we would say that a thought that "one is done" with a monad and an earlier perspective is almost always a sign that there is some contracted energy that could be further released.

Again, there is no absolute linear progression. You, and all your choices, are multidimensional and are subject only to the rules that you yourselves create through your beliefs. You must not always finish something before starting something else. There is always room to move back. There is always room to stop, to choose to not do something. Likely most of you know someone who never finished something; they are still living their lives and doing okay, but perhaps you feel that there is maybe a sense of incompleteness there. That is a choice. You can feel it, others can feel it, and perhaps they can feel it also, but they've made that choice, and it is fundamentally perfect as it is.

We find that there is a lot of energy attributed to the terms "positive" or "negative" pole, which we have deliberately renamed "expanded" and "contracted" because of the greater understanding possible that comes from this neutrality. Culturally, you think of "positive" as something good, "negative" as something bad as opposed to how these terms are used with respect to electric charges. To us they are simply two parts of a whole. It is not necessarily "good" to go through things in the positive mode; it's simply more complete, more full and more expansive. It would not be expansive without including the contracted energy. There is no judgment attached to moving things through the contracted poles or living therein. It's simply one choice of how to move through your perception.

Typically, moving through a particular internal monad will bring things up from a prior internal monad, experiences that were either left undone or that you would like to look at again for a variety of reasons. Not necessarily because it was undone, but perhaps it just correlates or helps fill in the picture for something in your life now, or helps illuminate something for you. Perhaps your essence like that issue and likes looking at it, in which case you'll provide yourself with opportunities to do so time and again. Again it is rare that anyone is "one-hundred percent completed" any particular perspective; there is always a spectrum and always a connection to past perspectives, much like you are connected to your past at all times via the present moment.

Transitions, Chakras and Centers

Because a transition is essentially a shift in perception, it involves the deepening of the most fundamental of your processing of input, perception, and energy: your chakras, which are the inputs for your energetic centers. Each transition invites a new openness, awareness, and complexity in the energetic makeup of each of your chakras. For a transition to be completed fully in the expansive pole, all centers must have undergone this shift. When the transition is not completed, there is usually a particular energetic blockage or damage in a chakra which will greatly influence how any contracted pole energy manifests.

Each monad also has a fulcrum of a particular chakra. This is the energetic " center" of the shift in perception.

• The first monad, birth, relates to the root chakra. The essence energy is "anchored" in the body, as are past life information and other instinctive center knowledge, and a relationship is built to the survival instincts of the body.
• The second monad is centered around the issues of the second chakra, which are knowledge of the inner self as separate from others, a basic relationship to others, sexuality, and creating what you want in life.
• The third internal monad relates to manifesting the outward self and developing a sense of personal power in relating to others, which centers on the solar plexus.
• The fourth internal monad involves the heart chakra, connection to essence and opening to an essenced-based connection to others and the world.
• The fifth internal monad is about perspective and teaching and involves the throat chakra.
• The sixth chakra involves opening to the greater universe and transcendent energies and is centered around the third eye.
• The seventh chakra is about surrendering to the greater You through the process of death and is focused on the crown chakra.

The development that each chakra undergoes relates to the difference in perception of "soul ages". It is the development of chakra that enables the true manifestation of soul ages, though there will always be some bleedthrough of manifestation even at an early age. There is also a relationship in that to fully manifest a soul age perception, all previous soul age perceptions must be allowed and validated. You cannot fully love being a mature adult until you allow and love being the child that is always within the adult. This relates as well to the internal monads: the way to the expansive pole of any monad involves truly loving all that has come before, all that has made you Who You Are.

Life Transitions as Applied to Cultures

Question: Are the monads and levels within the monads more universal? Do they apply, for instance, to small organizations, large organizations in their stages of growth - even to nations and cultures (it takes longer, of course)? Is this a universal pattern of growth?

As you are aware, there is a consciousness to everything - everything around you. Any time there is a group that forms there exists, through the energy that is given to that group, a consciousness to that collective entity. And there will be in some fashion a similar pattern followed through the evolution of that consciousness. In larger groups, such as nations, there is a great deal of energy that is given to the formation, manifestation and continuation of those entities. This energy will be tied to the land inhabited as an integral whole. That energy is sustained on a long-term basis and then becomes something that attracts the energy of the evolution similar to that you are moving through on the physical planes in these life transitions. Anything with consciousness on the physical plane will move through - at least in some loose fashion - a similar progression to what you experience in the physical body. So the answer to that question is yes.

In terms of the United States, we would say it is in between the second and third internal monad at this point. China is in between the fourth and fifth internal monad. Italy, as it stands now is a younger nation than one would think as it has been separated from Rome and the Roman Empire. Italy as it stands now is just entering the third internal monad. An example of a fifth internal monad culture would be Iceland. Also parts of India - the mountainous parts in the Himalayas. Tibet.

Small areas can be "older" than in the fifth internal monad, but not entire nations, because of the more arbitrary division of political power around regions. But there are certainly physical regions that are in the sixth internal monad - very small ones. Not enough to have a great deal of impact on the energy of the areas around them. That kind of impact would cause a great deal of disruption, because it would be the separation of self from the physicalness in which case that could have a very disruptive effect on all life in that area. So again there are very small regions that could be considered as moving through the sixth internal monad. And these would be areas that would be undergoing a large amount of physical destruction.