Speaker 1: Hi, there, just to say this is a short snippet
Speaker 1: from this week's main episode, which was published on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: As always, if you want the full episode, you can
Speaker 1: find it just below this one. So, third tier transpersonal development,
Speaker 1: and again we're going to keep this high level. We're
Speaker 1: not going to go into individual stages of third tier
Speaker 1: because again I'm assuming we don't know what they are,
Speaker 1: even though Wilbur spends a lot of time talking about them.
Speaker 1: I'm just assuming we don't know what they are. So
Speaker 1: what can we say, Well, we can say that at
Speaker 1: third tier transpersonal and this is really in the name,
Speaker 1: but we have to explain what it means. We can
Speaker 1: say that our identity is permanently free from our individuated
Speaker 1: sense of self. So you may be wondering what that means. Well, listen,
Speaker 1: let me explain how I would understand this. So basically,
Speaker 1: what we have as humans fundamentally is we have our mind,
Speaker 1: body sense experience. That's what we have. That is like
Speaker 1: a ground bottom fact. So we have the experience of
Speaker 1: our mind like our thoughts. We have our body, the
Speaker 1: experience of our body, and we have our senses, you know,
Speaker 1: we have our visual field, auditory field, our sense of touch,
Speaker 1: our sense of taste, and so on. Now, through of
Speaker 1: development we have that. Okay, our entire life, we always
Speaker 1: have that. However, our actual experience of mind body, our mind,
Speaker 1: body and senses varies widely across development. Even though we
Speaker 1: always have it, it changes a lot as we develop.
Speaker 1: So at pre personal levels here I'm switching back to
Speaker 1: pre personal personal, post personal or trans personal terminology again.
Speaker 1: At pre personal levels, the self has not yet formed.
Speaker 1: So within mind body sense experience, there is not like
Speaker 1: it's like the self has not formed it. You know,
Speaker 1: think of it kind of like clay, in which there's
Speaker 1: no shape yet. There's just mind body sense experience, but
Speaker 1: there's no self within that way, we don't experience our
Speaker 1: We have our experience of mind, body and senses, but
Speaker 1: we don't experience any of it as personal, and we
Speaker 1: don't have we don't. There's no part of it which
Speaker 1: feels like us, which is not the case that personal
Speaker 1: or post or sorry, it's not the case at the
Speaker 1: personal levels of development. So at the pre personal levels,
Speaker 1: we are unconsciously embeddied within MBC. Now, at personal levels,
Speaker 1: there's a clear sense of a separate itself. There's this
Speaker 1: permanent sense that my mind and body are me, while
Speaker 1: everything else is not. So my mind and body are me,
Speaker 1: but my senses are not. Other people are not The
Speaker 1: world around me is not me. Now transpersonal this is
Speaker 1: where what I was talking about. Our identity becomes permanently
Speaker 1: free from our individuated sense of self. In other words,
Speaker 1: it becomes free from the sense that we are our
Speaker 1: body and mind exclusively and everything else that is not
Speaker 1: that it is not us. That loosens every and ever
Speaker 1: deeper as we go through transpersonal development. At transpersonal we
Speaker 1: basically see that this separate sense of self is simply
Speaker 1: part of our mind body sense experience. And realizing what
Speaker 1: mind body sense experience is, our identity extends beyond our
Speaker 1: mind and body into all of mind body sense experience,
Speaker 1: and we become identified with all of it more and
Speaker 1: more as development unfolds in the transpersonal realm. Now we
Speaker 1: can have states that are transpersionally. As I said, we
Speaker 1: can have transpersonal states at personal levels of development or
Speaker 1: even possibly pre personal levels of development. But they are
Speaker 1: only states and regardless in a funny way that is
Speaker 1: really hard to describe, but just you just have to
Speaker 1: trust me here that well you don't have to trust me.
Speaker 1: But this is the theory, and this is how we
Speaker 1: explain weird phenomena like how a zen master can be
Speaker 1: like chauvinistic and ethnocentric and all that. Basically at the
Speaker 1: personal level, even if you have witness or nondual awareness,
Speaker 1: which are certainly transpersonal level states of consciousness, this psychologically
Speaker 1: in terms of your psychological development, in terms of your
Speaker 1: level of development, every your whole psyche is still organized
Speaker 1: around personal material, Like it's still organized around you being
Speaker 1: a self, and you being a self means a certain thing.
Speaker 1: And even if the trans even if the states of
Speaker 1: cludges have a big effect on that, you're still going
Speaker 1: to live out the stage that you're at. Like you
Speaker 1: could be green and have pretty firm non dual awareness,
Speaker 1: but you're still green, so you're still going to have egalitate.
Speaker 1: You're still going to see things through egalitism and see
Speaker 1: things relativistically and so on and so forth. So it's
Speaker 1: sort of like transpersonal these things are not just it's
Speaker 1: actually like it's reached into psychological development and it's the
Speaker 1: whole psyche has been around, rear ranged around transpersonal consciousness.
Speaker 1: And as I said earlier, a genuine transpersonal development. You
Speaker 1: don't just have say witness or non dual, you also
Speaker 1: have you have blue like the blue can Fortblove. You
Speaker 1: have everything up to blue. Then you have the blue
Speaker 1: conformisty level, which is belonging to this and ethno centrism.
Speaker 1: You have Orange rational which gives you access to rationality
Speaker 1: and formal operational thinking. You have green post modern consciousness,
Speaker 1: which gives you relativism, egalitarianism and post formal operational thinking.
Speaker 1: You have til integral, which is systemic thinking. We're multi perspectivalism.
Speaker 1: And you have turquoise construct aware, where you are aware
Speaker 1: of the constructed nature of concepts and meaning. So you've
Speaker 1: got all of that and you've got the Now you're
Speaker 1: developing the sense that you are not limited to your
Speaker 1: mind and body. You're transcending all of it, including the
Speaker 1: self sense, and your identity is becoming stationed beyond the
Speaker 1: self sense. Hi. There just to say. This is a
Speaker 1: short snippet from this week's main episode, which was published
Speaker 1: on Wednesday. As always, if you want the full episode,
Speaker 1: you can find it just below this one.