Across therapeutic and spiritual practice, people appear to move through five recognisable stages in how they relate to reality, change, and what enables transformation: survival (total identification with current experience), seeking (discovery of personal agency), personal power (active creation and control), paradox bridge (holding multiple truths simultaneously), and trust (operating from integrated knowing rather than effortful control). Building on a companion framework (Source Point, Sriharan 2026) that maps two broad orientations (control and trust), this paper expands that binary into a developmental journey. The journey carries genuine directionality: later stages access perception and transformation capacities that earlier stages cannot. Every stage serves essential development in its season, AND the direction of travel matters. The framework introduces the concept of "locks" (when someone remains fused with a stage past its natural season) and maps what supports growth at each stage. Applications span therapeutic practice, personal development, and parenting. All proposals represent testable hypotheses from systematic observation, offered for empirical investigation.