stage 2

Main Points in the Second Stage of Life:

• Occupies us during second seven years of life.

• Early stage of adaptation to the etheric dimension of conditionally manifested existence, which is the emotionalsexual dimension of the being, and which is also the dimension of life-energy, nerve-force, and feeling-sensitivity to conditions of existence.

• Primary adaptation is to feeling, or sensitivity to the etheric energy inherent in one's person, all others, and all of Nature.

• This is the primary stage of socialization, involving moral or right relational development. This socialization is based on feeling-sensitivity to the etheric dimension and one's effect on all others, rather than conventional socialization or worldliness.

• Genital sexuality is bypassed, but learning in this stage provides the emotional base for later sexual activity.

• Stage is complete when a basic level of social individuation is achieved. Individual no longer requires parent-child style of relationship, but can associate with the larger community of adults as a socially responsible, relationally positive young person.