Streams of Wisdom: An Advanced Guide to Integral Spiritual Development (Integral Religion and Spirituality Book 1)

The distinction between states and vantage points is essential. Shifts in vantage point are the area of spiritual growth that determines one’s degree of awakening. Although it is often confused as such, awakening does not indicate a change in one’s state of consciousness, but refers more directly to the degree to which one has transcended the confu

For example, ordinary attitudes, behaviors, affects and self-images are first deconstructed. Then, thinking is deconstructed. Next, perception is dismantled. While observing the subtle processes behind perception, the point of observation is altered. Next, the temporal nature of informationprocessing is analysed, and then, dismantled. As a result,

there is only one path, but it has several outcomes. There are several kinds of enlightenment, although all free awareness from psychological structure and alleviate suffering.

Whereas the event perspective is that which is known, the mind perspective refers to the knower itself.