The word 'path' can have many meanings. There are, for example, paths in the forest, paths to ruin, paths to fame and fortune, paths to recovery, paths to glory, paths to building or owning your own home, paths to finding gold in the mountains, paths in a video game, paths to healing, and paths to achieve certifications such as a black belt in Judo or a Doctorate Degree at a University.

One of the strongest coachings from modern culture is to 'get your career path started'. The idea is that following recognized achievements and employment steps empower you to command a higher salary, move up the corporate hierarchy, gain reputation and professional credibility, and eventually become 'successful'.

Each kind of path reflects the values of its gameworld.

One particular path is the path of evolution. What is that?

'Evolution' in the sense given by the context of Possibility Management means the evolution of how much consciousness you can apply practically to create real results.

You have already experienced what this feels like. Before any particular evolutionary step you could create one set of things. After the evolutionary step you could create something different that you could not create before. After the step you are able to create something new because you are able to be more responsible. What is the thing in you that changes for you to become more responsible? Your Matrix!

Responsibility is consciousness in action. In other words, responsibility is applied consciousness.

The change of your Being from one shape of responsibility to another shape of responsibility occurs during a Liquid State during which time the 'matrix' structure of your Being reorders from one pattern to a more elegant, more sophisticated, more integrated arrangement. In other words, evolution occurs best within a specifically held space (held and navigated by a Spaceholder) who navigates you through any of the 5-Body Liquid States that may occur.

Did you ever consider what the purpose of the Universe might be?

If you look at what happens over time to star systems, planets, living organisms, or social systems, you will see that they become more complex, more elegant, more refined, more aware. One could reasonably claim that the purpose of the Universe is the evolution of consciousness.

There is no top end to evolution.

A thoughtmap is a construct made out of distinctions. Your thoughtmaps determine how you can interact with the real world.

Gaining a new thoughtmap changes the structure of your Being. This explains why, when you gain a new thoughtmap, the Universe and Gaia and E.C.C.O. can each interact with you differently.

What you think with is very different from what you think about.

A thoughtmap is what you use to think with. What you think about are the facts, ideas, opinions, conclusions, and information you copied from your parents and learned in school and from the media.

Adding new information to what you know expands your knowledge bank.

In comparison, gaining a new thoughtmap builds the matrix to hold more consciousness in your Being and moves you on your evolutionary path.

Gaining more knowledge is not the path of evolution.

You need new thoughtmaps to enter new territory, for example, to go step-by-step across a bridge from modern culture to next culture.

And yet, the skills that enable you to implement the clarity of a new thoughtmap as real-life changes in a gameworld such as a relationship or a nanonation, are different from the skills that enable you to discover, refine, document, and successfully deliver a new thoughtmap to another person.

That would be the Trainer Path.

There exist many intelligence tests and classifications (IQ Tests, Mensa), certification programs (Bachelors, Masters, PhD), personality typing systems (Enneagram, Myers-Briggs, Human Design), chakra readings, aura readings, hand-eye coordination tests, etc. These all have their specific uses.

Which test measures your awareness? How can you find out where you are on your path of evolution of consciousness?

One answer about where you are is that results never lie. The Universe is a gigantic feedback generator. The results you are creating indicate where you are on the Path. Regardless of the excuses you come up with or the justifications you believe, what you have is what you want.

Who you are is other people's experience of you. You know you have changed when other people's experience of you changes.

What you are is where you are. Trying to figure out in your mind where you are may not help you much. Trying to be somewhere else other than where you are also may not help you very much.

Relaxing attentively into being who you are and where you are will tell you what you are in each moment. From what you notice, you gain clarity for taking your next steps.

You can only take the step directly in front of you. You cannot take the step that you may see 'over there'.

The path itself is an amazingly accurate indicator of where you are.

Since time immemorial it has been known that there are three kinds of Journeyers on the Path. Each kind of Pathwalker is driven by their own unique motivation when looking for the Initiators, Healers, and Trainers who will guide them on the Path.

The first type of Pathwalker assumes that the guide has all the information the Pathwalker will ever need. The Pathwalker participates in what the guide offers so as to collect information. Soon the Pathwalker does not like or understand an answer that the guide gives them. Rather than becoming different enough to understand the guide's answer, they conclude that the guide does not know everything. The Journeyer gets disappointed, critical, and aggressive, and then they leave looking for another guide, one who 'knows everything'. These Pathwalkers are never satisfied.

The second kind of Pathwalker comes to a guide because the guide meets the Pathwalker’s expectations about what a guide should be like. The image they project onto the guide matches their fantasy. They fall in love with the guide, thinking this is the way. Sooner or later the guide does something that is not quite right according to the Pathwalker’s expectations. The Pathwalker gets disappointed, or heartbroken. Their love is unrequited. They attack the guide, thinking that if they prove that the guide has hurt them, then the guide will come around and rescue them. The guide won't play this game, so the Pathwalker leaves, looking for another guide who fits their image better and will 'love them enough'. These Pathwalkers are never satisfied.

The third kind of Pathwalker comes to a guide because they want clarity and possibility. They want challenges and clear feedback. They want their 'X' on the map. They want the rug pulled out from under the beliefs they held to be true, so that the Journeyer lightens their load and can Journey into new realms. They are not willing to let anything create doubt, or get in the way of their search for their next step. Even the lack of the guide's faith in them will not influence the Journeyer's faith in the Path. This kind of Journeyer is satisfied from the beginning on.