The fold

In response to LP's FB post on state-stages I said:

This is why I have the so-called third tier developed states on the upper regions of the WC lattice as 'folded' under the other vertical stages. They're just more developed aspects of natural states via meditation or other methods. But I also think the so-called post-formal stages are themselves horizontal extensions of formal logic, per a more recontextualized Gebserian approach.

One of my sources was Goddard's work. The following is from chapter six (and see figure 6). I'm not in total agreement with this but it gives the general idea.

"The Outward arc [...] signifies the development of consciousness through a Promethean drive (from pre-modern to modern to a still unfolding but increasingly maturing ‘postmodernity’), an emphasis on the agentic pole dominant ‘over’ the communal pole (self over other, male over female), building ever more complex and largely stratified, rather than optimally integrated structures of consciousness. The Return arc is a process of deconstruction of the dualistic and divisive Outward arc structures from a more inclusive space of transcendent yet immanently grounded awareness. The Outward arc builds the ego and collective institutional structures: The Return arc does not consist in building further and ever greater superstructures on the basis of the ordinary self/world structure; it is not an accessing of new and hierarchically ordered structures beyond those of the Outward arc through an androcentric and agentic Promethean striving onwards and upwards. Rather, as we move into more subtle and rarefied levels of consciousness, we are called to deconstruct and 'bring up into' the higher space of transpersonal awareness the now transformed self/world structures of the Outward arc. Transcendence is an accessing of higher onto/epistemological domains through a radical re-organization, a deep transformation involving a total deconstruction of self and its experienced world(s) revealing higher and more subtle levels of ‘consciousness already’."