Self-reflexive consciousness emerges through seven distinct developmental stages: (1) reactive survival (infant), (2) personal self (young child), (3) social self (adolescent), (4) rational agency (self-direction), (5) self-authoring (full adult/wisdom), (6) enlightenment, and (7) transcendence (transhuman), where each stage represents a deepening capacity to observe and take agency over the previous stage's structures, derived from Robert Keegan's developmental psychology model but adapted as a philosophical framework for understanding mind structure rather than strict developmental progression.