10:26 - love all sentient beings without exception
13:30 - structures of consciousness are not chosen
26:34 - the bulk of development rests with the infant
34:41 - meditation is the most effective thing demonstrated to move people through the stages
37:12 - and even then, the social environment has to encourage growth
38:21 - meditation alone isn't powerful enough to override social pressure
39:39 - certain states can accelerate movement through stages
Friday, February 25, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
3-01. Ken's Introduction to Stages
0:10 - both structures of consciousness and states of consciousness can unfold in stages, but states of consciousness usually don't, and structures of consciousness almost always do
1:16 - a structure is any stable pattern
2:10 - the whole often determines what the parts do
2:22 - the structure is a dynamic pattern (think of a whirlpool)
5:10 - most stage conceptions are forms of developmental structuralism
5:54 - Gebser's Integral is the collection of green and above
6:30 -Baldwin outlined the developmental levels in the cognitive line, the aesthetic line and the normative line (among others)
9:02 - Kant examined the structures as the preconditions for having experience (and thus, they're transcendental and a priori)
10:38 - only structures that have developed can be conceived
10:55 - structures can't be experienced (states, experiences, phenomena can)
12:30 - this is why the structure-stages have no history in the great traditions
17:49 - the kind of stages we find in the traditions are state-stages, states of experience that unfold in a sequence
18:01 - most states of consciousness come and go with no development or sequentiality
18:23 - five major states of consciousness according to the great traditions
23:12 - waves are another word for stages, to give the idea there is an amount of fluidity in play
23:54 - structures are probability clouds
1:16 - a structure is any stable pattern
2:10 - the whole often determines what the parts do
2:22 - the structure is a dynamic pattern (think of a whirlpool)
5:10 - most stage conceptions are forms of developmental structuralism
5:54 - Gebser's Integral is the collection of green and above
6:30 -Baldwin outlined the developmental levels in the cognitive line, the aesthetic line and the normative line (among others)
9:02 - Kant examined the structures as the preconditions for having experience (and thus, they're transcendental and a priori)
10:38 - only structures that have developed can be conceived
10:55 - structures can't be experienced (states, experiences, phenomena can)
12:30 - this is why the structure-stages have no history in the great traditions
17:49 - the kind of stages we find in the traditions are state-stages, states of experience that unfold in a sequence
18:01 - most states of consciousness come and go with no development or sequentiality
18:23 - five major states of consciousness according to the great traditions
23:12 - waves are another word for stages, to give the idea there is an amount of fluidity in play
23:54 - structures are probability clouds
Thursday, February 10, 2011
2-04. Spiritual Practice and Cultural Embedment
8:08 - structures of consciousness have a hand in the structure and form of phenomena that appear
8:20 - there are a priori conditions that determine the type of phenomena that do appear
8:55 - pre-Kantian thinking is called metaphysical, post-Kantian is called critical
9:01 - structures were thought to be inherent in objects; Kant found that they were in part created by the subject
10:27 - culture is a magnet
12:19 - the structure of pre-operational and concrete operational thinking are universal, with varying surface structures
13:09 - pre-operational thinking represents objects to thought, but cannot operate on them
13:32 - concrete operational can start to operate on an object (as well as represent it)
14:01 - formal operational can perform the operations mentally
15:35 - the moment of experience is the most fundamental reality
20:36 - each stage adds some amount of freedom
20:50 - lower levels are strongly deterministic; higher levels aren't as deterministic
24:27 - getting lost in a perspective is the experience of samsara
27:42 - modernity requires evidence; post-modernity says that the subject is involved in the phenomena being perceived
28:16 - there's a narrow empiricism and a broad empiricism
30:09 - contemplative prayer or vipassana will free you from your ego, it will not free you from your culture
31:38 - there are several ways culture seeps into your cognition that your cognition is unaware of
31:50 - one of the simplest ways is the structure of language
31:54 - if you think in English there are a whole lot of implicit assumptions about reality that are in the structure of your language that may not be the structure of reality
32:06 - a satori will not break you from cultural influences
36:50 - meditation will not free you of cultural biases, but it will give you higher perspectives that have a capacity of reflecting on them, making it more likely that you will question them
37:08 - (but it's still not a guarantee)
37:39 - anybody can get enlightenment at any level
37:47 - but enlightenment won't get you free from your level
38:02 - absolute reality is not something you can see, it's the seer
38:10 - vertical growth adds the number of perspectives your enlightenment can exist in
40:48 - a tradition gets you to transcend your individual ego; the next step is to transcend the tradition
41:08 - identifying oneself as a member of a tradition is another drawing a boundary
41:31 - cafeteria style mix and match spirituality is generally a bad idea
8:20 - there are a priori conditions that determine the type of phenomena that do appear
8:55 - pre-Kantian thinking is called metaphysical, post-Kantian is called critical
9:01 - structures were thought to be inherent in objects; Kant found that they were in part created by the subject
10:27 - culture is a magnet
12:19 - the structure of pre-operational and concrete operational thinking are universal, with varying surface structures
13:09 - pre-operational thinking represents objects to thought, but cannot operate on them
13:32 - concrete operational can start to operate on an object (as well as represent it)
14:01 - formal operational can perform the operations mentally
15:35 - the moment of experience is the most fundamental reality
20:36 - each stage adds some amount of freedom
20:50 - lower levels are strongly deterministic; higher levels aren't as deterministic
24:27 - getting lost in a perspective is the experience of samsara
27:42 - modernity requires evidence; post-modernity says that the subject is involved in the phenomena being perceived
28:16 - there's a narrow empiricism and a broad empiricism
30:09 - contemplative prayer or vipassana will free you from your ego, it will not free you from your culture
31:38 - there are several ways culture seeps into your cognition that your cognition is unaware of
31:50 - one of the simplest ways is the structure of language
31:54 - if you think in English there are a whole lot of implicit assumptions about reality that are in the structure of your language that may not be the structure of reality
32:06 - a satori will not break you from cultural influences
36:50 - meditation will not free you of cultural biases, but it will give you higher perspectives that have a capacity of reflecting on them, making it more likely that you will question them
37:08 - (but it's still not a guarantee)
37:39 - anybody can get enlightenment at any level
37:47 - but enlightenment won't get you free from your level
38:02 - absolute reality is not something you can see, it's the seer
38:10 - vertical growth adds the number of perspectives your enlightenment can exist in
40:48 - a tradition gets you to transcend your individual ego; the next step is to transcend the tradition
41:08 - identifying oneself as a member of a tradition is another drawing a boundary
41:31 - cafeteria style mix and match spirituality is generally a bad idea
Sunday, February 6, 2011
2-03. Kosmic Address and the Pauli Exclusion Principle
4:51 - self-reflexive awareness doesn't get started until second person
5:14 - self-reflexive introspective awareness doesn't get started until orange
6:19 - an electron interprets its shell as empty or full (not self-reflexively)
14:02 - a holon has its own unique perspective (first person source of prehension)
15:32 - manifestation is not just perception (a subject perceiving objects), it is perspectives
16:16 - the only time there is a perception is through a perspective
16:21 - the universe is composed of perspectives
16:34 - subject perceiving an object is only part of it, it is an I prehending a me, we or it
17:21 - perspectives without pure awareness is samsara, perspectives with pure awareness is nirvana plus samsara, nonduality
19:16 - your awakening will be expressed through your unique perspective
19:21 - your unique perspective is necessary for the expression of the awakening
19:42 - God needs humans to awaken to God (some traditions have said)
19:59 - even God cannot have your unique perception, your unique perception is your offering to the world
5:14 - self-reflexive introspective awareness doesn't get started until orange
6:19 - an electron interprets its shell as empty or full (not self-reflexively)
14:02 - a holon has its own unique perspective (first person source of prehension)
15:32 - manifestation is not just perception (a subject perceiving objects), it is perspectives
16:16 - the only time there is a perception is through a perspective
16:21 - the universe is composed of perspectives
16:34 - subject perceiving an object is only part of it, it is an I prehending a me, we or it
17:21 - perspectives without pure awareness is samsara, perspectives with pure awareness is nirvana plus samsara, nonduality
19:16 - your awakening will be expressed through your unique perspective
19:21 - your unique perspective is necessary for the expression of the awakening
19:42 - God needs humans to awaken to God (some traditions have said)
19:59 - even God cannot have your unique perception, your unique perception is your offering to the world
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
2-02. 4th-, 5th-, and 6th-Person Perspectives
15:56 - when you can have a perspective on another's perspective, you start to transcend your own
16:09 - every holon up to red is stuck in its own perspective (1st person perspective)
16:30 - when red hits, concrete operational thinking emerges, the ability to think about thinking
17:31 - thought operating on thought, hypothetico-deductive reasoning
17:41 - conditional reasoning, what if I did this, or as if I were doing this
17:57 - science is a third person, universal, objective view, requiring a third person perspective capability (late amber and above)
20:08 - the insight of green - there are different perspectives beyond the reductionistic universal truth of science
21:37 - the disaster of green - multiple truths with no way to judge them
22:50 - unchecked pluralism degenerates into nihilism, narcissism and fragmentation
24:00 - the insight of 2nd tier - there are universal currents that tie together these different perspectives
28:15 - the ideas of each stage tend to come as a package - orange introduces scientific third person concepts, green introduces post-modern, fourth person concepts, etc.
28:57 - understanding the AQAL model is taking a fifth person perspective
33:23 - each increase in perspective is an increase in capacity to take more roles, to understand more sentient beings, an increase in freedom and love
35:01 - the reason for using morphogenetic fields - an evolving kosmos solves the metaphysical problem of pre-existing structures, the great chain of being, etc.
39:34 - there are a few givens, a certain amount of things that have to be presupposed to start a universe
40:08 - pre-fixed structures are dependent on perception
40:18 - this moment prehends, transcends and includes, the previous moment, the subject of this moment becomes an object of the subject of the next moment
40:44 - once you have that, you have holarchy
40:50 - each moment has two components - continuity and novelty (include and transcend)
42:45 - if you're starting to stably transcend turquoise, that doesn't mean you're at indigo (it hasn't formed yet)
43:01 - the earlier structures were mistaken for pre-determined and fixed and eternal because they are so solidly formed
49:51 - the structures could have formed differently
49:55 - the gift of orange - the differentiation of the value spheres and the quadrants
50:14 - the mistake of orange - science colonizing art and morals
16:09 - every holon up to red is stuck in its own perspective (1st person perspective)
16:30 - when red hits, concrete operational thinking emerges, the ability to think about thinking
17:31 - thought operating on thought, hypothetico-deductive reasoning
17:41 - conditional reasoning, what if I did this, or as if I were doing this
17:57 - science is a third person, universal, objective view, requiring a third person perspective capability (late amber and above)
20:08 - the insight of green - there are different perspectives beyond the reductionistic universal truth of science
21:37 - the disaster of green - multiple truths with no way to judge them
22:50 - unchecked pluralism degenerates into nihilism, narcissism and fragmentation
24:00 - the insight of 2nd tier - there are universal currents that tie together these different perspectives
28:15 - the ideas of each stage tend to come as a package - orange introduces scientific third person concepts, green introduces post-modern, fourth person concepts, etc.
28:57 - understanding the AQAL model is taking a fifth person perspective
33:23 - each increase in perspective is an increase in capacity to take more roles, to understand more sentient beings, an increase in freedom and love
35:01 - the reason for using morphogenetic fields - an evolving kosmos solves the metaphysical problem of pre-existing structures, the great chain of being, etc.
39:34 - there are a few givens, a certain amount of things that have to be presupposed to start a universe
40:08 - pre-fixed structures are dependent on perception
40:18 - this moment prehends, transcends and includes, the previous moment, the subject of this moment becomes an object of the subject of the next moment
40:44 - once you have that, you have holarchy
40:50 - each moment has two components - continuity and novelty (include and transcend)
42:45 - if you're starting to stably transcend turquoise, that doesn't mean you're at indigo (it hasn't formed yet)
43:01 - the earlier structures were mistaken for pre-determined and fixed and eternal because they are so solidly formed
49:51 - the structures could have formed differently
49:55 - the gift of orange - the differentiation of the value spheres and the quadrants
50:14 - the mistake of orange - science colonizing art and morals
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