There is a hierarchy of Thinking and of thought itself. It goes from low to high like this:

Superstition  (pre-data, pre-science attempts to understand)

Science (data) Mathematics is pure concepts (abstractions about ideas) stripped of philosophical significance and so is a kind of midpoint- bridge to philosophy

Philosophy (the study and love of ideas)

Wisdom (the integration of ideas) The integrated Duality part of The Cosmic Code

Spirituality (The experiences of Grace/Self Awareness. The personal experience of Grace is the integrated Trinity-Unity of Self, Space and Time ) The Trinity-Unity part of the Cosmic Code

Ethic(s) (the purely conscious consideration of the Good)

Consciousness Itself (Ability to Merge and Pervade)

Games and Action(s)

Curiously the very highest levels of the scale have been accomplished and recorded in the world’s major Wisdom traditions while still in the Superstition/pre-data and science stage of human development. This is probably because intuition has always been available to Man and is reflectively an aspect of the higher levels where it is increasingly informed, rational and conscious due to its integration with Science, Philosophy, Wisdom, Spirituality and Ethics.

Each level is a higher order of integration with the last three levels being the integration of the specific aspects of Grace/Self Awareness/Ethics and Consciousness itself…the better to more deeply and consciously experience anything in  Life.

These are also levels of mindset that individuals can be seen utilizing and either getting trapped in or going in and out of with relative degree of skill and proficiency. The bulk of humanity is either thoroughly stuck in one of the first two levels or has some facility in both. Some momentary use and knowledge of the levels above science is present in many, but in order to truly and generally ascend to the level of philosophy one needs to discard the greater part of one’s biases caught via contagion from upbringing, friends and acquaintances, culture and one’s own experiences and reactions to them. In order to do the same in Wisdom one has to thoroughly adopt  the integrative mindset as a conscious choice other wise one descends back into the lower levels and does not get the full benefits of Wisdom which are the ability to increasingly discern actual truths, facility in combining them and increasing confidence in trusting and being able to act on and with those integrated truths leading eventually to Wisdom’s pinnacle,  actual Spirituality, i.e. the actual experience of Grace/one’s own Self Awareness. At this level,  if the individual is truly interested in pursuing it, is characterized by increasing integration and depth of any experience one has or has had. The level of Ethic is actually the full conscious recognition and acceptance of the necessity of both freedom and barriers, their integration with each other and consequent true freedom. This is the level of what I would refer to as “the beatific chains of Ethics.” Consciousness itself is also referred to as “cosmic consciousness” because one is able to merge with whatever one is experiencing inwardly or outwardly. This is far above Self Awareness, but is not an obliteration of Self either as one is perfectly capable of being and retaining one’s own Self and whatever characteristics one may have developed or are inherent. Each level is both concentric and inclusive of all abilities in the levels below it in the hierarchy. The level of Games and Action(s) is placed above Consciousness Itself because Games and Action are the very essence of Life and Living itself….and what is Life for if not for Living. It’s not so much that knowing at this point could become boring it’s more that knowing and unknowing, both of which are at the very pinnacle of human abilities, is a fuller experience…and the ability to actually consciously un-know enables one to sincerely play games, act and further learn.