Summary of Ken Wilber's Integral Psychology

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The Great Nest of Being is the backbone of the perennial philosophy, and it would be a crucial ingredient of any integral psychology. It is the view that reality is made up of various levels of existence, ranging from matter to body to mind to soul to spirit.
#2 The Great Nest is a hierarchy of levels of consciousness that exist in the universe. The basic levels are the basic holons in the nest, and they are qualitatively distinct levels of organization that are arranged in a nested hierarchy of increasing holistic embrace.
#3 The Great Nest is a multidimensional latticework of love, and it transcends and includes its juniors. Spirit is both the highest wave and the ever-present ground of all the waves, going beyond all and embracing all.
#4 The Great Nest of Being and Knowing is the core of the perennial philosophy, and it is the part of the philosophy that has been found most enduring. The evidence continues to mount in its favor: human beings have access to a richly textured rainbow of consciousness spanning subconscious to self-conscious to superconscious states.

Sujets

• Philosophie
• Philosophie de l'esprit
• Body
• Mind
• Philosophy
• Philosophie et théologie
• Love
• Love (disambiguation)

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 12 juin 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822509290
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Ken Wilber's Integral Psychology
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The Great Nest of Being is the backbone of the perennial philosophy, and it would be a crucial ingredient of any integral psychology. It is the view that reality is made up of various levels of existence, ranging from matter to body to mind to soul to spirit.

#2

The Great Nest is a hierarchy of levels of consciousness that exist in the universe. The basic levels are the basic holons in the nest, and they are qualitatively distinct levels of organization that are arranged in a nested hierarchy of increasing holistic embrace.

#3

The Great Nest is a multidimensional latticework of love, and it transcends and includes its juniors. Spirit is both the highest wave and the ever-present ground of all the waves, going beyond all and embracing all.

#4

The Great Nest of Being and Knowing is the core of the perennial philosophy, and it is the part of the philosophy that has been found most enduring. The evidence continues to mount in its favor: human beings have access to a richly textured rainbow of consciousness spanning subconscious to self-conscious to superconscious states.

#5

The charts present the basic waves of the Great Nest, and the correlations between them. The correlations between the stages and theorists are very general, and they are not meant to be accurate to within 1. 5 stages.

#6

The basic structures or holons that I generally present are the matter, body, mind, soul, and spirit levels. They are like colors in a rainbow, so I have drawn them overlapping. But a more accurate representation would be a series of concentric spheres, with each senior sphere enfolding and embracing its juniors.

#7

The higher levels in the Great Nest are not absolute givens. They are potentials, not absolute givens. They are still plastic, still open to being formed, and they exert a great attraction.

#8

The Great Nest is made up of states, bodies, and structures. A state is a state of consciousness, such as waking, dreaming, and deep sleep. A structure is a sheath or level of consciousness, such as the material level, the biological level, the mental level, and the higher mental level.

#9

The three natural states are gross, subtle, and causal, and they are available to humans at any stage of growth. They are experienced and interpreted differently depending on the stage of development of the person having the experience.

#10

The sixteen types of spiritual experiences are: psychic, subtle, causal, and nondual states poured into archaic, magic, mythic, and rational structures. In order for higher development to occur, these temporary states must become permanent traits.

#11

The higher levels of the Great Nest, which are accessed through meditative states, are more stable and permanent than psychic, subtle, and causal states. They become enduring structures in an individual’s makeup.

#12

The Great Nest is a series of common levels through which many different developmental lines or streams will flow. Development is not a linear, sequential affair; it is a fluid flowing of many streams through these basic waves.

#13

The Seven Ages of a Person are the physical, emotional-sexual, lower, middle, and higher mental, soul, and spirit. They are said to take seven years to complete, and each seven-year period brings the possibility of a new and higher level of consciousness evolution.

#14

The perennial philosophy explains the seven ages of a person as the seven main chakras or basic structures. For various reasons, I have found that although around two dozen basic structures can be readily identified, they can be condensed into around seven to ten functional groupings that reflect easily recognizable stages.

#15

The Western psychological study of cognitive development still involves the study of some sort of consciousness, however narrow and restricted on occasion. The importance of consciousness development is emphasized by the fact that, when specific developmental lines are studied, it has been found that cognitive development is necessary but not sufficient for them.

#16

The highest stages of cognitive development are not just mental and personal, but also supramental and transpersonal. These stages are dynamic, developmental, and dialectical. They are not just cognitive, but also consciousness in general.

#17

The major inadequacy of Piaget’s system is that he generally maintained that cognitive development is the only major line of development, when in fact there are numerous different developmental lines that can unfold in a relatively independent manner. But his work is still impressive.

#18

The stages of child development are universal, and the deep features of those stages are universal. The surface features, however, are heavily dependent on cultural, environmental, and ecological factors.

#19

The three stages of cognitive development are sensorimotor, concrete, and formal. The sensorimotor stages occur in the first two years of life, and result in a capacity to perceive physical objects. Cognition then slowly begins to learn to represent these objects with names, symbols, and concepts.

#20

As consciousness develops, it begins to take more and more perspectives into account.