Sloww Sunday: Mature Ego, Awakening Stages, Open Individualism, & More
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Sloww Sunday: Mature Ego, Awakening Stages, Open Individualism, & More
With this stage comes a deep yearning for wholeness—bringing together the ego and the deeper parts of the self; integrating mind, body, and soul; cultivating both the feminine and masculine parts within; being whole in relation to others; and repairing our broken relationship with life and nature.
Frédéric Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
The process of awakening might be viewed as the transition between these two poles; the journey from fear and wrong-making to gratitude and open-eyed acceptance.
Jed McKenna • Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing (The Enlightenment Trilogy Book 1)
I believe our default state is at the top of this map.
When a child is born, they are pure presence. Unconditional love. Infinite possibility. Simply being. Expressions of God. This is our natural state.
But through societal programming, conditioning, and trauma, we fall from the higher states down into fear, guilt, grief, and shame.
These negat... See more