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Ken Wilber

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Now, I want to introduce you to another person.  I don't think weÕre gonna have time to go into it, but how many here are familiar with Ken Wilbur and his stuff?  So, some of you are and some of you arenÕt.  Well, I just want to mention that in your packet here will be what weÕll call the four quadrants of consciousness, the map of consciousness. 

And itÕs a really, I find it even more useful than this Jung model, which I find extraordinarily useful.  IÕm just mentioning it here.

This is a map of consciousness, and he calls it integral vision now, but there are exterior realities, physical reality, and there are interior realities.  WeÕre talking about intuition in that realm.

But the interior, most of science, proof and so forth, concentrates strictly over here and ignores the interior.  And thatÕs what he calls flat lining.  ItÕs a flat line.  It doesnÕt take into consideration things like good, beauty, morality and so forth.  All of that comes out of here, not here.  Science – this is the physical world, and this is the individual.  ItÕs an it over here.  And this is individual, a body – our body is quite complex, we can go down to simpler things like the cell, or below that is the molecule, below that is the atom; all that belongs here.

So we start here, this is the evolution of complexity in the physical world, thatÕs one way to look at it.  Then, there is the collective part of the it.  ThatÕs society.  And what weÕre doing with dreams is we are concentrating – the dreams come off over here, in the individual interior.  And then thereÕs the collective interior, which is the culture.  The culture, the we versus the its, the society. 

His little scheme is just quite remarkable, and I just, for you who have not read Wilbur or heard about it, I would recommend that you get familiar – he is a national treasure.  This guy can read ten books in ten hours and write a book about it, and synthesize those ten books in a single volume, thatÕs what he does all the time.  HeÕs a phenomenon; heÕs a treasure.