The World of the Terribly Obvious (Mar 31 2007) part 4

0:50 - just being aware of transpersonal structures helps our working with transpersonal states

1:06 - that alone can increase our depth and our height

2:26 - an understanding of all four quadrants can help any one quadrant evolve

3:04 - you don't see the level you're at

6:00 - that's why having a map is important; it helps you see subject as object, helping you transcend

10:08 - there's a dialectical process between agency and communion and Eros and Agape

10:37 - agency is the drive to be a whole, to maintain integrity, autonomy and freedom

10:45 - communion is the drive to be a part of a larger culture

11:37 - Eros is the drive upward, to let go of objects and negate the lower

12:02 - Agape is the drive to identify, feel into awareness, reaching down to embrace lower levels

13:03 - it's healthy to alternate between all of these

14:31 - it's possible to be at a nondual state and have let go of all objects in your awareness

14:41 - but that's the trick; your awareness is still at a particular level, and thus all that's in your awareness are the objects below that level

21:35 - structures are referred to as higher or lower, states are referred to as deeper or shallower

21:44 - when the we space is at a specific altitude, it will exert a pull on your I space

22:48 - more than a help, the we space is essential for growth and transformation

23:00 - the I, it and we are Buddha, Dharma, Sangha

27:19 - how do you reach all levels of development on their own terms?

30:14 - zen thinks you can look within and see your true self - the myth of the given

30:55 - the relative, finite self is ultimately false, when compared to the absolute self - but you can get that false self wrong

31:42 - inside the relative realm, there's a true and false

32:55 - we work to get the relative world right

33:23 - Marx was looking at unfreedom in the social realm; Freud was looking at unfreedom in the personal realm

33:41 - when we say the shadow is producing a false self, a self that is not the true self, that true self we are talking about is not the absolute Self, we are talking about the relative true self

34:20 - there are two forms of falseness, relative falseness and ultimate falseness

34:29 - two goals: the relative goal is to make the four quadrants as healthy as we can; the absolute goal is to drop them

41:44 - history is a chronicle of men and women born too soon

42:33 - let's get one thing straight: we are not on the verge of a global outbreak of consciousness expansion that is going to liberate everybody

46:32 - green looks at teal and thinks it's seeing red

54:45 - the various dimensions of existence, body, mind, soul, spirit, are held in consciousness in ways particular to each level

58:04 - contemplatives, when they describe stages / levels, are almost always describing state-stages

58:48 - the world coemerges differently based on the structure of consciousness