From the archives:
One
source I've quoted and commented on at length is Jerry Goddard's free
e-book, Transpersonal Theory and the Astrological Mandala: An Evolutionary Theory. Chapter 3 goes into the TP models of Wilber, Grof
and Washburn. E.g., in this post I said:
"In
Chapter 6 of Goddard’s Transpersonal Theory he reiterates something I
said in the Krishnamurti 2 thread about Gebser. Previous structures are
not holonically subsumed into the next higher structure. The lower
structures continue to develop laterally within the dominant higher
structure. However successively higher structures up to the mental-ego
are by nature “divisive” or exclusive into a higher-lower polarity
whereby one pole is dominant, and higher tends to at least consciously
(epistemologically) subsume the lower. Nonetheless ontologically the
repressed (and previous) pole (structure) continues to develop but
unconsciously and it is not until the so-called centaur structure
(Geber’s IA) that we begin the return arc of integration of our formerly
repressed structures. This conscious return then finds those previous
structures having gone through their own developments unbeknownst to us
so that they are not the immature magical and mythical worldviews they
were on the upward arc of development. Add in the conscious ego’s
recognition and integration of them and we get an IA structure that
holds all of the structures as they are without contradiction."
Following
that post is a quote from the referenced chapter 6. The entire thread
is called States, Stages, the Wilber-Combs Lattice and the Fold and is
one such Integral/Transpersonal theory hybrid.
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