Positioning Fourth-Level Science: Foundations, Context, and Direction

I recently commenced the Diploma of Counselling with a clear intention: to strengthen the professional frameworks required to support what I have been developing as Fourth-Level Counselling. If this emerging area is to serve people responsibly, it must rest upon sound ethical practice, clinical literacy, and disciplined care. Vision alone is never enough; structure is what allows new ideas to mature into viable fields of practice.

Fourth-Level Counselling draws its conceptual roots from what I have described as Fourth-Level Science — an evolving framework concerned with forms of human experience that often sit at the edges of conventional psychological interpretation. While the language surrounding such experiences varies across cultures and traditions, many individuals report moments of perception, insight, symbolic depth, and inner reorganisation that invite understanding beyond purely reductionist models.

My exploration of these ideas was influenced in part by the concept of fourth-level reality, a term introduced by Barbara Ann Brennan, whose work sought to expand how we understand the energetic and perceptual dimensions of human experience. Engaging with this lineage has been less about adopting a fixed worldview and more about continuing a broader intellectual conversation — one that asks how emerging knowledge might be integrated with contemporary psychological responsibility.

From this inquiry, Fourth-Level Science has gradually taken shape as an organising lens — not to replace existing psychological models, but to help widen the interpretive space in which human experience can be understood safely and coherently.

To give these ideas a visible and accessible home, I created Connecting Co-Creators, an initiative designed to support connection among individuals exploring expanded dimensions of experience across the world. The platform brings together foundational principles of Fourth-Level Science through visual representations, conceptual pathways, and curated links to further resources. Its purpose is not persuasion, but orientation — offering language and structure where ambiguity has often prevailed.

If you are interested in exploring these foundations further, I encourage you to begin with the Connecting Co-Creators website, where the architecture of this work is mapped in greater depth:

https://turtleacupuncture.wixstudio.com/connectingcocreators

The initiative itself builds upon two of my earlier books, CoCreators and Connecting CoCreators, both of which sought to examine how individuals might engage expanded awareness while remaining grounded in everyday functioning. Across these works runs a consistent premise: exploration must always be accompanied by integration.

As Fourth-Level Science continues to clarify its contours, the parallel development of Fourth-Level Counselling becomes increasingly important. Counselling is, by nature, a discipline of stewardship — concerned not only with insight, but with stability, coherence, and the wellbeing of those seeking understanding. Undertaking formal counselling training is therefore part of a longer commitment to ensuring that any future modality emerging from this work is anchored in professional responsibility.

Looking ahead, I anticipate the eventual creation of a dedicated Fourth-Level Counselling platform as its principles become more fully articulated through study, practice, and careful observation. New disciplines are rarely built quickly; they are shaped through iterative learning, ethical reflection, and sustained dialogue.

For readers wishing to explore the broader body of writing surrounding these ideas — including essays on psychology, civilisation, human development, and emerging futures — further work can be found at:

www.usnu.blog

We are living in a period in which longstanding models of mind are being revisited, expanded, and, at times, reimagined. If Fourth-Level Science contributes anything to this moment, I hope it is a spirit of careful expansion — one that honours both the complexity of human perception and the responsibility required when engaging it.

This is ongoing work, and its direction will continue to refine as understanding deepens.

Stay posted for further developments.