Belt system
From Elfi
On any path, it is important to know where you are at and what the stepping stones are, so that you have goals to work towards.
Our belt system provides you, your teachers and your fellow students with a clear idea of what knowledge and skills you have mastered, what level of advancement can reasonably be expected of you, and what areas you are currently studying. Through this system, younger students can easily find those who can answer their questions, and older students will be able to understand the level others are working on, and address them accordingly.
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How belt levels work
After your first class in the Introduction course, you can be tested for a White Belt in chat. This signifies that you are officially a student at Elfpath, are keeping a journal, taking parts in classes, and ready and willing to learn the basics. As you progress in your studies, you may apply to test for higher level belts. These belts reflect your knowledge of the material taught in our classes, your understanding of the concepts and methods, and your skill in applying them. You do not gain belt levels by completing a course or by simply being around for a long time: they are a sign of what you understand what you can do, not of your ability to sit, listen and memorize. You may apply to test for a belt at the very earliest after a certain number of classes, so that you have covered the material required for the relevant belt level, and then only with your main teacher's permission.
Gaining a belt level is a noteworthy achievement. We do not make our tests easy, and we do not advance you to the next level unless we are sure that you are really there and are ready to go on. In all of this, as with everything else, you can go completely at your own speed. If you show that you can handle it and really want it, you can go faster than the program outlines, and if you are busy, or want to take it slow, that is perfectly alright as well.
Belt tests
To gain a belt level, a high level teacher will sit down with you in an audio conversation and test you. During this test, we will ask you to show us your knowledge and the skills you have learned. For this we use questions, and we ask you to demonstrate your intuitive abilities. The teacher will track what you are doing, and judge if you have mastered the skill sufficiently. If your mastery of both the knowledge and the skills are adequate, you will pass the test, and your forum belt sign will be updated.
Overview of belt levels and requirements
For each level, you should be able to demonstrate the skills for that level, AND all the requirements for previous levels as well - this is custom in traditional Martial Arts ranking, and we use it in Meta-Intuitive Arts for the same reason. Skills stack. You grow. None of our curriculum is knowledge-based material that you can forget as soon as you have tested.
Basic levels
- You are willing to learn new things with an open mind.
- You are committed to doing the exercises for the duration of Intro Course and journal about them.
- You have a good idea of what you want to get out of Elfpath.
- You have a basic understanding of what energy and awareness are and why they matter.
- You have a clear understanding of what you are signing up for.
You can test for White Belt immediately after your first class, providing you meet the requirements. This is a chat-based test that can be adminstered by any Green Belt.
- You can demonstrate being centered in your guts and clearly describe the emotions in there.
- You can demonstrate grounding.
- You can name and describe the 4 control dramas, give examples of their impact on your life and sidestep them. You are aware of your own preferred control dramas and have begun to eliminate them from your life.
- You can name and describe the 7 chakras and their function.
- You understand the importance of emotions in life and allow yourself to feel them.
- You know what anger is and why it is harmful.
- You can give an example of a symptom soup.
- You know what it means to choose love over fear and can do so.
- You can face and resolve emotional trauma from your past.
- You treat others and yourself with respect.
This is an audio test that can be adminstered by any Blue Belt.
- You are decently skilled at intuitively scanning and can use different scan levels.
- You are capable of counselling others and helping them with emotional problems.
- You reach out to them easily and voluntarily.
- You have a healthy Root Centre and Joy Centre. You have cleared your PFN's and no longer act from their influence.
- You can get into alpha easily and know how to use it.
- You are emotionally and spiritually growing up. You show compassion and increasing integrity.
- You can sense and shape energies in your own body.
- You have learned to scan things before speaking or acting.
- You can sense the difference between surface and fundamental.
- You know what a DUFOS moment is and how to watch for it.
This is an audio test that can be adminstered by any Brown Belt.
- You have your heart online. You can get energy in there by yourself and you can hold it stably for an extended period of time. You can love.
- You have healthy PFN's, you have dismissed your patronus, and you have found and are beginning to act from your integrity self.
- You have your first mind stable.
- You are comfortable and skilled at teaching and counselling others. You know the basic principles of teaching the meta and can apply them.
- You have a decent idea of why you are in this life.
- You can tell if an emotion is yours or not and handle it appropriately.
- You have chosen a spiritual path and archetype, can step into those energies and hold them.
- You have chosen which intuitive gifts to focus on for the rest of your path.
- You can scan accurately and easily. You can use this to figure out more complicated problems and questions.
- You can manipulate energy in objects as well as the world around you - and you have the wisdom to know when to do so and when not.
This is an audio test that can be adminstered by any Black Belt.
Advanced levels
- You can express yourself clearly and strongly, without compromising your integrity.
- You can get into alpha easily and deeply and use it for many different purposes.
- You can do multi-vector scans and Full-scans.
- You can name (and use) many different strategies to approach a single intuitive situation.
- You are comfortable with your intuitive gifts and are actively exploring different and deeper to use them.
- You are able to make difficult decisions in your life and stick to those decisions. You are not afraid to make drastic changes in your life.
- You show dedication in the disciplines you have chosen to follow. You keep a meta- morning routine very morning and evening.
- You can communicate emotions effectively to others - your own and theirs - without expressing the energy of those emotions.
- You can choose what emotion to feel at any moment and then let it go again.
- You know the effects of language and word choice and have learned to speak more carefully. You are precise in your expression and avoid harmful phrasing.
This is a video test that can be adminstered by any Silver Belt.
- You understand that it is the energy you hold, not the action you take, that matters. You can hold a strong energy of who you really are without slipping out of it.
- You can respond to what people are thinking without them expressing it out loud. You know if what people are thinking scans or not - without knowing what it is.
- You have intentional control of your emotional states. You can choose your emotional age, and respond to other people's emotional age appropriately.
- You are capable of solving your own problems where you can, asking for help where you can't, and telling the difference.
- You can evaluate yourself clearly without emotion or drama.
- You can do deep inner work and work directly with your subconscious mind.
- You can scan without personal bias or emotion.
- You are aware that you are still learning and take corrections with enthusiasm rather than getting upset.
- You can recall past lives easily and use the wisdom you gain from them.
- You are capable of sensing, shaping and sourcing to a basic extend, and have specialised in one of these categories.
This is a video test that can be adminstered by any Gold Belt.
- You can do all the basic meta-techniques easily and independently. You can Deep-scan.
- You have a powerful, commanding prescence. You act naturally with a certainty and confidence without having to think about it.
- You always have an answer.
- You are an adult and you act it.
- You know who you are, what you are here for in this world and how you want to express that. You know who you are between lives and why you chose this one the way you did.
- You can meta-multitask. You have an expanded awareness and diffuse awareness of your surroundings, keeping your finger on all kind of things at the same time.
- You have thrown out your personal believes, and instead seek to always perceive what's there openly and without prejudice.
- You can effectively express whatever energy or attitude you choose without feeling awkward or embarassed.
- You completely unconsciously adjust your tone, energy, attitude and words to what people need at the moment. You give people what they need without trying.
- You don't run. You face very difficult things about yourself, others and the world around you without bolting, with a smile.
- You are able to change a stranger's life in 10 minutes flat.
This is a test that can be adminstered only in person by a Gold Belt or Guru.
Master levels
For any of the levels after black belt, you have decided to follow the very difficult path of the master, over that of the student or the teacher. This decision has been made been made mind, heart and guts, and you have demonstrated that you will make this decision over and over again.
As a silver belt, you no longer require someone else to be your master, explain things to you, to give you exercises, to tell you what needs done and why and how. You are a master yourself.
You have regressed yourself from the moment of conception, eradicated all the major structures that have held you in bondage all your life and replaced them with a more whole image of your Self. You will work for however long it takes to accomplish your goal, and you have demonstrated this by doing deep inner work for at least 18 consecutive hours. Your motivation for this comes from inside, not outside. You have discovered and fully matured your inner subconscious child as well as your higher self. You have matured your conscious self and left all immaturity and childish ways behind, and you have gotten in touch with and opened your heart energy and are working from there. You speak and act from a place of integrity.
You have consciously made the decision to follow the master's path for at least 6 months prior and communicated this decision to your master, and you have been a black belt for at least 4 months.
Gold belt to be added later.
Guru level
See our page on the three different Spiritual paths for more information about the student, teacher and master levels.
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