A Framework for Human Consciousness
Awareness remains Identity shifts Experience continues
Five locations. Always available.
Identity is inside the experience.
Circumstances feel all-consuming.
Awareness can't keep up.
Continuity detectable underneath experience.
Awareness that was always here.
Something remains before thought arises.
Awareness beside experience.
Identity is no longer confined to it.
Dual awareness appears.
Awareness remains beside experience under load.
Dual awareness stabilizes.
Presence holds even when it's hard.
Awareness remains continuous across changing states.
Returning to Foundation isn't failure — awareness stays.
The whole map becomes home.
In Conversation With
Abraham Hicks identified a real sequence of inner movement. The Five States goes underneath it — naming the terrain each step moves through. One tells you what to do. The other shows you where you are.
Abraham Hicks
Step 1
Experiencing contrast clarifies desire. The discomfort of what you don't want shows you what you do want. This is the necessary beginning.
The Five States
State 01
Not just a trigger — a complete state of consciousness. Identity is fused with experience. Circumstances feel all-consuming. You're not failing — you're in Foundation.
Abraham Hicks
Step 2
The desire you clarified is received. Something external responds. This is not a step you actively do — it requires trust in a cosmological process.
The Five States
State 02
There is a quality of awareness underneath experience that was always there — detectable, not believed in. The internal noise stops. Awareness absent of thought.
Abraham Hicks
Step 3
Step out of resistance so what you want can arrive. Get into the receiving mode. Let go of what's blocking the flow.
The Five States
State 03
Awareness shifts from being inside the experience to standing beside it. That's not a metaphor — it's a detectable change. You didn't push resistance away. You changed your position relative to it.
Abraham Hicks
Step 4
Hold alignment even when circumstances haven't shifted yet. Maintain the frequency of what's coming, not what's currently showing up.
The Five States
State 04
Not willpower. Not positive thinking. Dual awareness that has stabilized under load — holding what is happening now and what is coming at the same time, without collapsing one into the other.
Abraham Hicks
Step 5
Returning to contrast isn't regression — it's the process beginning again as a new desire forms. Your system expands through each cycle.
The Five States
State 05
Identity remains stable across all states. You don't transcend Foundation — you stop being afraid of it. The whole map becomes home. Awareness stays continuous, and from that stability, everything expands.
Each Abraham Hicks step lives inside a Five States terrain. The circle is already there — the step just moves through it.
A process tells you where to go.
A map shows you where you already are.
The Full Picture
The Five States as terrain. The Abraham Hicks steps as movement through it.