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Ken
Wilber, a major American philosopher, and developer of seminal theories
in the field of trans- personal psychology, describes eight levels of human
psycho-spiritual development. In barest form, they are:
| Level |
Type of Exchange |
Paradigm |
Sphere |
Archetypal Analyst |
| 1. Physical |
material |
food & natural resource use |
manual or technical labor |
Marx |
| 2. Emotional |
pranic |
breath & sex |
emotional intercourse |
Freud |
| 3. Verbal |
symbolic |
discourse |
communication |
Socrates |
| 4. Mental/Egoic |
mutual self-
recognition |
self-consciousness |
mutual personal recognition and esteem |
Hegel |
| 5. Psychic |
intuitive |
siddhi |
shamanistic kundalini |
Patanjali |
| 6. Subtle |
God-light |
nada |
subtle heaven |
Kirpal Singh |
| 7/8. Causal |
Ultimate |
samadhi |
Void/Godhead |
Buddha/Krishna/Christ |
Mr. Wilber's discussion
and analysis of this subject can be found in various of his books, including
Up
from Eden, from which most of the information in this chart was
taken. This chart is, of course, a severely truncated explication of Mr.
Wilber's views, and has not been reviewed by him. |