LEVELS [1: INTRODUCTION]

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1|169|353|R|I see, feel, smell, and hear through my senses. I feel reactions to these senses, like fear, hunger, curiosity, or sexual arousal. I want to get things that I like for myself, and I want to get away from things that I don’t like. I get hungry, tired, warm, or cold, and I feel motivated to get what I need to stop those feelings. Life is about dealing with my needs and feeling good by getting what I want.
2|169|296|R|I know that other people and animals also have senses and desires and feelings. I perceive feelings much like my own feelings coming from other sources around me. Sometimes, I make the mistake of experiencing a feeling in myself, but perceiving that it’s coming from someone or something else, like a person, an animal, or even a tree or an unseen “spirit.” I can now respond to the feelings I see in others, and to their needs. Life is about pleasing others (or the gods) so that they do what we want.
3|169|230|R|I live in a world full of different people, each with their own agenda. They all want what they want, and they’re looking out for themselves, because they have to. That’s what life is - it’s about getting your way. Everyone has to work with (or around) the needs and feelings of others - or at least what they think others are feeling - to get what they want, and I need to win that game. I can get what I want by taking or creating advantages for myself, and I better do it because no one will do it for me.
4|169|167|B|We all have our own lives to deal with, and our own problems. That can make us pretty selfish, and sometimes we don’t agree on what’s right. If we don’t stick to the rules and do what we know is good, life is chaos. It’s every man for himself. Life is about knowing what’s good and what’s bad, what’s right and what’s wrong, doing the right thing to remain good, and making things better.
5|169|102|B|When you think about it, what’s “good” and “bad” is different for different people, and for different groups of people too. What’s good for me might not be good for you, and what works in my country might not work in yours. Before we make any big decisions, we should look at the facts so we know how to get the outcome we want. After all, everyone really wants what’s best for them and their own, not to be forced into a life of service to your boss or to some “God.” Life is about knowing how to make good things happen, keeping the benefits, and always improving.
6|674|305|R|Everyone’s unique, and we should all be allowed to be who we are. Society’s rules often hold people back from what they really want, and we should all just do our own thing instead. How can one person ever tell someone else what to do? You’re not them, so that’s not fair. You can’t judge someone if you didn’t live their life. I don’t even have rules for myself! I’m a different person over here than I am over there. Maybe if we all stopped trying to tell each other what to do, we could have world peace.
7|674|235|R|It would be nice if everyone could do what they wanted, but life isn’t that simple. Who I am and what I want changes so often — I can’t imagine one set of rules or one version of the truth that works for everyone. People are complex, and life is constantly changing. We can’t just let go and hope for the best. We need to base our choices on what we know about ourselves from our past and build a world that’s ready for what we’re pretty sure is going to happen, even if that means making judgments and imposing restrictions. It might feel bad to say ‘no’ to people, but sometimes, it’s for the best.
8|674|167|B|The world is too complex to control. Life is not a game, it’s a show. You can’t know for sure what will happen before you act, you can only learn and try. You can intend to do anything you want, and you can be as careful as you want, but to some degree, you have to watch what happens and see how you feel about it later. Life is an experiment. We’re all figuring things out as we go. We should all have safe places to try new things, share what we learned, and do it again if it was good. All we can do is the best that we know, so we should all know more.
9|674|100|B|In an unpredictable world, everything we do is only a gesture or a wish, especially over long stretches of time. Sometimes we’re good at what we do, and our wishes come true — or so we think. For now. Sometimes not so much. Sometimes, we don’t even know. There is not always such a thing as ‘is’ or ‘is not’, ‘will’ or ‘will not’. There is only ‘seems to me…’ or not. Or both. Or neither. The only certain thing is the watcher in us watching and the wisher in us wishing. We are not what we do or what we make, we are the watchers of the doing and the becoming. I am not the main character, I am just the spotlight. What is revealed is what I illuminate. If we want a better world and a better life, we have to learn where and how to shine the light.