No matter what level of consciousness you are at, it always seems that what is ahead is unthinkable, and those falling behind are "f*ckwits". In order to make progress you need to "rehumble" yourself, as there is an innate bias to believe you're the best, just based on your ability to perceive those who lag you, and inability to perceive those who precede you (in terms of spiritual development).

THE FOUR STAGES OF PSYCHO-SPIRITUAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

"Four is the Number that is most Wakan, most Sacred. Four Stands for Tatuya Tupa--The Four Quarters of the Earth....Four also stands for the Four Winds, whose Symbol is the Cross....Four Things Make the Universe--Earth, Air, Fire and Water."
-Lame Deer SEEKER OF VISIONS

I Have Found this to Be Extremely Helpful in my 40 Plus Year Journey of the Heart!

THE NATIVE AMERICAN STORY OF SINGING STONE

"Among the Mythological Representations of Self, One Finds mback into the Ouch Emphasis Upon the Four Corners of the World & in many Pictures the Great Man (Great Spirit) is Represented in the Center of a Circle Divided into Four. 'This INNER GREAT MAN', according to Jung, 'Redeems the Individual by Leading Him Out of Creation and its Sufferings Back into the ORIGINAL ETERNAL SPHERE...the Great Man Lives WITHIN the Heart of Every Individual and Yet At the Same Time He Fills the Entire Cosmos." M.I. Von Franz, MAN AND HIS SYMBOLS

THE FOUR WINDS/FOUR SEASONS/FOUR DIRECTIONS/FOUR STAGES OF PSYCHOSPIRITUAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

From GOD IS WITH(IN) US: A Spiritual Workshop on Personal and Planetary Transformation in the Third Millennium, By Craig Robert Steele

http://www.fletcherprentice.com/resources_stories_singing_stone.htm