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The First Passage

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{
  "id": "first-passage",
  "title": "The First Passage",
  "subtitle": "From ordinary attention into depth attention",
  "mark": "↓",
  "color": "blue",
  "arrival": "You are not completing an assessment. You are being received by a place.",
  "promise": "Slow the scanning mind long enough to notice what is beneath the story you usually tell.",
  "steps": [
    {
      "title": "Let the ordinary break",
      "reflection": "Depth begins when nothing is demanding that you perform, decide, or become impressive.",
      "prompt": "What did you arrive carrying from the ordinary world today?"
    },
    {
      "title": "Allow the descent",
      "reflection": "Depth attention listens, notices, wonders, and becomes available to recognition.",
      "prompt": "If you stopped explaining yourself for a moment, what signal might become audible?"
    },
    {
      "title": "Carry one thread",
      "reflection": "A true passage does not close with completion. It leaves a living question that asks you to return.",
      "prompt": "What one thread feels worth carrying beyond this room?"
    }
  ]
}

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