User-Friendly List of Questions

Earth - – What are the facts? – What is different? – What is unique? – What could everyone else agree upon? – What stands out? – What seems constant? – What can I count on? – What is irrefutable? – What are the pieces? – What categories do the pieces fit into? – What feels like a heavy weight, like a solid stone, or like gravity with respect to this phenomenon?
Water - – What is changing? – Do any of the facts connect to each other? – Do the facts manifest in a sequence? – Are there different parts or areas which are self-similar? – What is the immediate context of the facts? – What patterns do I notice? – Are there any rhythms or cycles? – What are the processes that give rise to the individual facts? – Is there a specific context that makes the phenomenon more apparent or realized? – How is one aspect turning into another, seemingly different aspect? – What about my phenomenon makes me feel like I am floating along, caught in the waves, drowning, or repeating the same thing over and over?
Air - – What is reversing? – Where do I go if I extrapolate the movements I identified in the Water level to their extremes? – What is the overall range of manifestation of the major aspects of the phenomenon? – That is, what are its limits? – Where does the phenomenon seem to ‘run out’ or dissolve? – What parts do I seem to be unable to focus or concentrate upon? – If I could imagine the opposite of one part or the whole phenomenon, what would it be? – How would I feel if this actually happened? – What about this phenomenon makes me feel like I am losing my moorings completely, like my knowing runs out, like there is no truth, or like every part is equally important or unimportant?
Fire - – What is the whole? – What lies within or behind the phenomenon that allows the seemingly conflicting aspects of the Air level to coexist in a harmony, in a way that is not mutually destructive, but rather is mutually enhancing? – Do I have a new insight that makes better sense of all the previous levels? – Is there some subtle aspect of the phenomenon that once seemed insignificant but now seems like the key to the whole thing? – Do I have the feeling of participating in something larger than myself? – Do I suddenly notice how this phenomenon shows up in places I never expected or noticed before? – Do I have the experience that the phenomenon is speaking to me through other, seemingly unrelated aspects of my life and experience? Do I feel transformed in some way?

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