Six Levels of 'Conscious Awareness' (Lowest to Highest)

Step 1: Beliefs:
(What we have been taught by others.)

Step 2: Questioning beliefs
(When the beliefs we were taught by others cause us pain.)

Step 3: Confusion
(Conflict between beliefs and "Universal Truth.")

Step 4. Not knowing
(Acceptance of conflict between beliefs and  "Universal Truth.")

Step 5. Observation
(The bridge or doorway to "Natural Knowledge" where 'Universal Truth" lives..)

Step 6. Natural Knowledge
(The direct, spontaneous, experience of knowing universal truths.

The lowest level of "awareness" is step 1, the highest level is step 6. In step 6, you know that you know universal truths, without doubt, and have no need to prove to others what you know.