* A period of crisis and regression before the higher level system emerged

* the perspectives they had on life were inadequacy to solve the problems that they were facing

* the old 'solutions' to former existential problems didn't apply to this new problem

* growing pains and a sense of loss, or uncertainty about how to make sense of this new problem emerges and one must be faced with a crisis in order to make the jump to a higher level of meaning making

* changing a stage of development induces discomfort, pain, losses, and uncertainty

* the need for the emergence of the next system as the only way to solve the problems one is facing

* He must come by an insight which enables oneself to solve his new problem more effectively

* the barriers, one’s family, friends, or the established and its way of thinking, must be overcome or ignored if the insight is to fully sink in.

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