The TREE OF LIFE:
Stage 0 is the seed in the ground, in total darkness, you need to focus on being alive, keep your head down and stay alive, because this is ALIVE or DEAD situation, the seed has to grow roots, in the process of growing roots, many are sacrificed to grow the roots, to be forerunner of the root system, stay alive, stay in the seed as long as you can till you break through from darkness of the earth to the light, above the ground.
Stage 1 is the SEEDLING, where you broke through the ground, literally out of the darkness and into the light, you are emotionally expressing yourself, go here, not there, no, not there, here, you are fighting to be the leaves, you express yourself in all directions, the young seedling with the branches and leaves, you are the stem of the seedlings or the expressive leaves. If you learn to FOCUS on he stem, you keep growing up If you are the expressive leaves, you fall off and die, become part of the earth, then are reabsorbed back into the tree system. The key is to STAY in the stem, focus on being the stem, filter out the need to become the leaves where the certainty is to fall to your death, and start again as part of the root system from the ground up, as nutrients for the tree.
Stage 2 is the TRUNK of the tree; you have made choices that do not lead you to death, as leaves are recycled back into the tree system. You learn to FOCUS, FILTER out being the expressive leaves, you FLOW to become part of the trunk to reach higher above ground, like building a sky scraper, to become really strong at focus, filter, flow by solving problems to CHOOSE to be the trunk, not branches.
Stage 3 is the branches of the trees that is fully grown now, you know how to focus, filter, flow to the outcome, you now TEACH others how to FOCUS, FILTER, FLOW TO become their own branches, some will still want to be explored and become the leaves, that fall and are reabsorbed into the tree system.
Stage 4 is the acorn, where it is the seed, it requires a lot of energy to grow itself, as in different from the leaves, where they will fall onto the ground and reabsorbed back into the tree system, you spend time alone to become the acorn, after helping others from the trunk to become the branches with the system you have developed for others to follow and learn from.
Stage 5 is the acorn BECOMING the TREE, growing as a tree, repeaing like the tree you were on, now, you are creating YOUR OWN TREE. You leave the tree but not as the leaves where it dies and get reabsorbed into the tree system, this time, as an acorn, you are the SEED that you become the TREE itself from seed to seedling and then to become a tree trunk and branches and acorns, you CREATED A TREE by you, as an acorn seed.
Stage 6 is the TREE, you wait patiently as the tree, for the creations to grow up and becomes acorns of their own, you decided to END your curiosity as a TREE, it is no longer a tree, your creations are all done,
Stage 7 is the REST, you are no longer the leaves, the acorn, the tree, it is time to RETURN back to the created and uncreated, be part of all that is.