Joe explores the identity phases with their characteristics in terms of focus,

"... We move from our body to our vehicle of our careers where we shift to being of service to humanity, to service to our community, service to our market. It's a different psychology where eventually we then move into the archetype of spirit where we start pondering deeply, who am I really? What am I really? What is it that's doing the observing? Where does this observer even come from? How was it created? What's the source of who I think I am, where it come from? ..."