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What we call good or bad and which behavior we believe to be good or bad behavior, changes fundamentally when entering a new phase of consciousness.

In intuitive first phase consciousness we call good the things that make us feel safe. In the second, emotional phase we ask:”Is the world as it should be?” In the third rational phase this changes to: “Am I as I should be?” And in the fourth phase the question of what is good or bad no longer exists and we only ask: “What exists, here and now?”

In the first intuitive phase we define good behavior as doing what those in authority say it is. We accept our dad or mom, the priest, or even the dictator of the country, as our authority. Good is what the authority says it is. In the second phase good behavior is doing as our surroundings define it. The authority here is vested in an institution: our family, the church, or the law of the land. In the third phase we ourselves decide what good behavior is. And in the fourth phase we do not ask what is good or bad. We act spontaneously. We know that everybody acts in the only way open to them. We answer the question: “What would I do, if…” with: “I do not know, and cannot know, until I get there.”

You can use these ways of describing what constitutes good and bad behavior to decide which phase of consciousness you have reached.