I'm going to introduce a number of threads which are intended to be reference concepts for a discussion. I'm going to be careful not to imply that these concepts map reality. Rather, they are _reference_ metaphors. The idea here is that, whether or not we _agree_ with these ideas, we acknowledge that these are concepts that are being used to organize people's thinking about their reality.

In fact, it would be more accurate to say that the use of these concepts truly indicates a pattern in human pattern-making, more than it ever implies that the world at large reflects these patterns.



Here are some of the stage models, and in a further posts I'll try to bring in a few more. Key question: are there commonalities between these stage models and _exactly_ what are they?