Step five:

Know thyself. Or know yourself.

There's no guarantee, approval stamp, pat on the back, not even a congratulations or smiley face next to a gold star when you know yourself.
All you are is inside of the clothes you're wearing, the feeling of your heart beating as you slowly fall in love, or the ramblings of your imagination ticking away beneath your hair you probably care too much about or hardly touch.
You are not what you do nor how you do it. You are that you that keeps doing and never lies about having done so. You is also the immortal hope translated perfectly into the purest form conceivable because you are that which has been conceived to realize this.

But the most important thing and the only thing that'll be left by the end of knowing yourself, is that no one can tell you how, when, or who you'll be.


Which would you rather hear... a group of kids wanting to be police and firefighters when they grow up OR a group of kids wanting to be themselves when they grow up?

Step four:

But not yet.
Let doubt brim your new amorphous view and be the ever constant and dancing silver lining as you navigate through the thunderstorm-world you now see for what it is instead of what you've been told it always was.

In the notion of why, why can be infinite but as with illusions, enough whys will distabilized the image of illusion and reveal that it had no purpose other than to deceive you. So why the illusions?
Illusions are there to keep from you what has been deemed hazardous or harmful to your reality.
But really, your reality has then been nothing but the pure deception itself controlling and deciding what is hazardous or harmful. It is safe to conclude that the illusions are the hazardous and harmful, and that's the reality they don't want you to know. Instead of a sleep, they have you isolated in a coma with dozens of IVs dripping little by little the dark residue of their scheme... to cloud your already vulnerable senses and drift your mind beyond the point of recovery so that your addiction to their emotional and material dream world concretes your existence to their machine. Their unstoppable machine whose gears are powered by your unmitigated cooperation. The machine you involuntarily consent your work shifts, the same work shifts they have you utterly convinced you need through glimpses of xeroxed threats, promises and incessant reminders of how unstable the world is around you. When really, just around the bend and what they won't tell you, they are the source of it. Then why do they continue to do it???
They'll say they're doing it for us, the people. Our government, for the people, by the people, thinking of us kindly and considerately whilst deluding us. Keeping us "free" by enforcing their freedom upon us.

Laws, taxes, states, voting, television, medicine, schools, coffee, sports, drugs, bill collectors, record labels, leashes, infomercials, churches, mosques, synagogs, the place where you kneel at night to pray, wiretaps, the radio, boundaries, and all five of your senses.
So in further delving, step four is about illusions and understanding your innate ability to decipher illusion from YOU.