1-02. Markers of Development

1:08 - How would you interpret the constitution? constructionists want to find the primal meaning of the framers

1:25 - you have to take into account the kosmic addresses, the altitude of the people who wrote it, and the altitude of the people interpreting it

2:22 - are there signs to show that a practitioner is moving in the right direction or the wrong direction? how do you know what is positive and healthy and what is pathological?

3:14 - we don't know all of them, we're still learning

3:41 - impulses and drives change from stage to stage, so eventually you don't have the desire to do anything deleterious to your well-being

4:19 - lines develop unevenly

5:17 - horizontal health is balancing

5:47 - the four quadrants are connected

7:10 - first person meditation can lead to the pure self, absolute subjectivity

7:45 - but ego can still hide, you might have gone from small ego to big ego

8:01 - and there's no real way to tell

8:04 - a lot of Mahayana Buddhists were bypassing the great Thou, the thing bigger than themselves

8:14 - don't overlook spirit-in-second-person

8:28 - spirit-in-second person forces you to let go, to surrender your ego

8:41 - just developing the upper left and nothing else is unbalanced

9:19 - is horizontal development necessary for vertical growth?

9:27 - the more you balance the quadrants at any stage, the healthier the horizontal translation, the more rapidly you transform

10:20 - men tend to pay too much attention to I or It, women tend to pay too much attention to We

11:21 - something can still go wrong in the lower levels even after your center of gravity has moved past them

11:38 - you can see this with the many cases of spiritual teachers who are unhealthy and unbalanced

12:48 - discipline is quite a taboo in America these days

13:16 - discipline is required for spiritual growth

14:04 - Aurobindo's two heart centers

17:01 - structures of consciousness - Graves, Loevinger, Kegan, Piaget, Kohlberg, etc. - zone two

17:15 - you don't find structures in the great spiritual traditions - the traditions are phenomenological, and can't be seen through introspection