The Four Magical Pathways The Three Circles Model, which is in front of you right now, shows us the mechanisms for a person to naturally exit out of the inner circle into the outer one. For this purpose, we have the projections of the pathways, which are denoted by the straight lines on the diagram. And we can see that there are four of these pathways present that run from the outer into the second circle. They are the so-called traditional pathways of consciousness development.