1:40 - when a peak realization occurs, what do you do? continue to meditate for five more years
2:12 - how do we get practitioners who are stuck in Boomeritis Buddhism to see this?
3:00 - have them look at some developmental books; Kegan, Spiral Dynamics, Wade, Cook-Greuter, etc.
4:39 - describe the behavior of a psychologically healthy human being
5:38 - it spirals between agency and communion
6:02 - spiral dynamics tracks the values line, and nothing else
8:08 - the secret of human development: making subject object; the subject of one stage becomes the object of the next
8:37 - eventually you exhaust all subjectivity, rendering everything as objects, and that which is aware of all objects is the Absolute Witness
9:30 - which is not another object / experience / phenomenon, it is the space in which all objects / experiences / phenomena arise
12:33 - even if someone disagrees with this model, the process of disagreeing requires them to think about it (making subject object), and will eventually move them forward
14:22 - what's the deal with cultural relativism anyway?
15:55 - the way through the postmodern dialectic: you take the position and apply the position to itself
16:21 - if all meaning / statements / truth is contextual / culturally relative, then so is deconstructionism
19:30 - Buddhism and postmodernism both see that meaning / statements / truth is contextual / culturally relative
21:17 - what Buddhism had a leg up on postmodernism was that it had a practice to arrive at ultimate truth
36:51 - two types of development: vertical (structure / stage / level) development
37:29 - and horizontal (state) development
39:01 - horizontal development can be had at any stage
39:36 - pathologies can occur throughout both of these developmental schemes
40:51 - if you move into a subtle state from a waking state and any of your identity remains in the waking state, that will be a split off subpersonality, or shadow
41:24 - this is how you can get shadows in both structures and states
41:31 - shadows are subjects that you did not make object, subjects you are still identified with
43:20 - you can attain psychic / subtle / causal / nondual states at any stage
44:56 - it would be great if teachers could help to advance people through stages as well
49:03 - most contemporary new age spirituality is green-subtle
50:12 - much of green has gotten used to combating the bad forms of hierarchies, ranking, judgmentalism, etc., that they rebel at the idea of any hierarchies
50:27 - internal hierarchies are hierarchies of inclusiveness
51:30 - saying ranking is bad is itself a ranking, saying judging is bad is itself a judgment
59:03 - meditation doesn't solve shadow issues
59:49 - every structure stage has a different type of shadow
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