The Ten Levels

The Ten Levels of Human Potential

Long ago, humanity experienced a very different world of teachings. They were guided to master their full natural abilities, with powerful higher levels strictly forbidden until the foundations were mastered. Society today has forgotten these teachings. I'm recovering them for the modern world, so we can rediscover ancient abilities and master our forgotten potentials. Ten Levels, revived.

Level 1: Conscious Breathing

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Conscious Breathing

Deep self-control

The greatest threat to any journey aren't obstacles on your path — it’s the unexpected emotions that rise to pull you from it. For millennia, breathing techniques have controlled panic, tamed grief, and mastered pain. The correct technique can quiet any storm within.

  • Ancient India
  • Ancient China
  • Ancient Greece
Society
25%
achieved
80%
aware

Main Purpose

Ensure nothing can pull you off the path you choose to take in level 2.

Top Abilities

  • Heightened focus & flow state
  • Withstand physical & mental pain
  • Control stress & anxiety attacks

Recommended Resource

The HelpMeCalmDown app is an interactive learning experience for the most effective breathing technique, abdominal nasal breathing:

Help Me Calm Down

Level 2: The Self-Teacher

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The Self-Teacher

Limitless intelligence

Modern schools teach subjects one by one — a slow and narrow path that limits potential. But true intelligence is found in mastering the process of learning itself. Once you learn how to learn, you can teach yourself anything. No limits. No boundaries. No dream too far.

  • Ancient Greece
  • Early Buddhism
  • Islamic Golden Age
Society
12%
achieved
40%
aware

Main Purpose

Learn what you need to live the life you wish, then learn the skills needed to make it happen.

Top Abilities

  • Living a life by design
  • Solving limitless problems
  • Being a leader, not a follower

Recommended Resource

Quite simply, the way to learn is to know where to find guidance, and in today's world, that's quite simply: YouTube. Endless free teachings.

YouTube

Level 3: Time Prioritisation

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Time Prioritisation

Maximum impact

Time doesn't limit you — how you use it does. Most people chase time because they don't realise it can be shaped. You must focus your energy where it matters most, turning minutes into momentum. When you master prioritisation, time bends to your purpose.

  • Imperial China
  • Samurai Japan
  • Ancient Rome
Society
8%
achieved
50%
aware

Main Purpose

Once you learn how to learn, build that life you wish to live 100 times faster.

Top Abilities

  • Making 1 minute worth 100
  • Achieving more by doing less
  • More impact, and free time

Requirements

  • Level 2: Learn to Learn

Recommended Resource

The Eisenhower Principle is the most effective method of prioritisation. Research and learn it, and to use it for everyday life, try the Priority List app:

Priority List

Level 4: Emotional Intelligence

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Emotional Intelligence

Deep resilience & flow

Emotions shape every decision, every connection, and every turning point in life. Without mastery, they control you. But with emotional intelligence, you gain calm under pressure, empathy in conflict, and clarity in chaos. With mastery over emotion, you gain true self-control.

  • Modern Psychology
  • Sufism
  • Mahayana Buddhism
Society
6%
achieved
45%
aware

Main Purpose

Ensure you're building the life you want, and not what others want for you.

Top Abilities

  • Understand who and why you are
  • Master all relationship types
  • Achieve true inner peace

Requirements

  • Level 1: Conscious Breathing

Recommended Resource

Emotion-Smart.org teaches you how to understand emotions — both your own and others — and achieve emotional mastery.

Emotion-Smart

Level 5: Impossibility Paradox

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Impossibility Paradox

Seeing hidden paths

To achieve impossibilities, a firm belief that "anything is possible" is required on a very, very deep subconscious level. Even a single doubt — a quiet voice saying “that’s impossible” — will blind your subconscious mind to many paths of possibility.

  • Modern Physics
  • Zen Japan
  • Advaita India
Society
3%
achieved
25%
aware

Main Purpose

Boost your skills beyond your self-belief, and unlock ones you've blinded yourself to.

Top Abilities

  • Spot opportunities others miss
  • Break through limiting beliefs
  • Discover your true potential

Requirements

  • Level 2: Learn to Learn
  • Level 4: Emotional Intelligence

Recommended Resource

Make a list of everything you think is impossible for you to do, order by difficulty, and learn to do the simplest one.

By actively breaking through personal 'impossibility', you'll begin to remove limiting subconscious thoughts of 'impossible'.

Level 6: Theta Consciousness

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Theta Consciousness

Non-ordinary states

Theta & delta brainwave states — experienced in sleep and medically-induced comas — can be consciously accessed through deep meditation. It unlocks accelerated learning, improved healing, and subconscious reprogramming. It is a doorway to heightened natural abilities.

  • Vedic India
  • Tibetan Monks
  • Amazonian Tribes
Society
1.5%
achieved
10%
aware

Main Purpose

Gain full, conscious access to your minds raw power.

Top Abilities

  • Access to your subconscious
  • Embrace deep inner-peace at will
  • Amplify all natural abilities

Requirements

  • Level 2: Learn to Learn
  • Level 4: Emotional Intelligence
  • Level 5: Impossibility Paradox

Recommended Resource

Ask ChatGPT about the 5 brainwave states and meditating into theta. Use that understanding to guide you when learning to meditate; "The Mind Illuminated" by John Yates is a popular guide that balances modern science & ancient practices.

ChatGPT

Level 7: Conscious Extuity

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Conscious Extuity

Precision manifestation

Extuity — the unseen structure of reality — removes the illusion of time and reveals the cause of coincidence, karma, intuition, and deja vu. By reverse engineering it, you can 'see' multiple futures to consciously redirect your flow through time with precision.

  • Ancient Egypt
  • Mayans
  • Tibetan Lamas
Society
0.5%
achieved
3%
aware

Main Purpose

Ensure every aspect of your life is on a path of your choosing.

Top Abilities

  • Navigate 'time' like space
  • Sense futures before they unfold
  • Consciously redirect fate

Requirements

  • Level 2: Learn to Learn
  • Level 4: Emotional Intelligence
  • Level 5: Impossibility Paradox

Recommended Resource

Visit extuity.com to understand how time truly works, and how to consciously navigate it with clarity, logic, and intent — based on scientific research.

Extuity

Level 8: Conscious Bioelectricity

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Conscious Bioelectricity

Your energetic body

Bioelectricity — known for millennia as Chi — is the subtle electrical energy coursing through your body. By learning to sense and direct it, you can directly control pain, accelerate healing, and interact with external energies. Controlling it unlocks the forgotten power running through you.

  • Taoist China
  • Kundalini India
  • Himalayan Healers
Society
0.2%
achieved
7%
aware

Main Purpose

Gain direct control over your body's biological processes.

Top Abilities

  • Control your bioelectrical energy
  • Remove pain & accelerate healing
  • Interact with external energies

Requirements

  • Level 1: Conscious Breathing
  • Level 2: Learn to Learn
  • Level 4: Emotional Intelligence
  • Level 5: Impossibility Paradox

Recommended Resource

Visit chifu.org for practical training that teaches you how identify, amplify and apply your bioelectric energy. It's ancient teachings rediscovered by myself.

Chi Fu

Level 9: Conscious Dreaming

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Conscious Dreaming

Your subconscious

A few stumble into it by chance — waking within a dream, fully conscious inside a world shaped by the mind. You can enter that state at will, and within it, access your subconscious, amplify bioelectrical abilities, and unlock unprecedented levels of creativity. It's true mastery over mind.

  • Tibetan Buddhism
  • Aboriginal Dreamwalkers
  • Toltec Shamans
Society
0.1%
achieved
12%
aware

Main Purpose

Read, write, rewrite your deepest fears, abilities, limitations, etc.

Top Abilities

  • Explore your deep subconscious
  • Amplify bioelectrical abilities
  • Elevate your creative potentials

Requirements

  • Level 4: Emotional Intelligence
  • Level 5: Impossibility Paradox
  • Level 6: Theta Consciousness

Recommended Resource

Charlie Morley is a respected Lucid Dreaming teacher that will help you achieve lucid dreams, use them for healing and skill-building, and bring insights into your waking life.

Charlie Morley

Level 10: Conscious Energy

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Conscious Energy

Energetic dimension

You are no longer limited by mind and body — but can transcend beyond at will. Not a concept, not a metaphor — a conscious energy that moves beyond all physical matter. Form dissolves. Separation fades. Consciousness is untethered.

  • Taoist Immortals
  • Hesychasts
  • Siddha Masters
Society
<0.01%
achieved
2%
aware

Main Purpose

Endless. You decide.

Top Abilities

  • Experience consciousness beyond the body
  • Transcend physical limits
  • Explore the energetic dimension

Requirements

  • Level 4: Emotional Intelligence
  • Level 5: Impossibility Paradox
  • Level 6: Theta Consciousness
  • Level 9: Conscious Dreaming

Recommended Resource

Get in touch to discuss this final level. If you've mastered all previous levels, you'll know exactly how to reach me.

Remember... your mind will not comprehend the higher levels until you master the previous ones. Begin ascending the levels, and you will be — truly — unstoppable. Build a million dollar company. Accelerate healing. 'See' time. I've done them all. Others have too. It's not 'myth' or 'legend'. It's not 'impossible'. It's human.

Hakeem Javaid - The Modern Monk Follow @hakjav