--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Irmeli" <irmeli.matts...@...> wrote: > > > > I've emphasized the interesting part in > > ALL CAPS below. > > > > http://integrallife.com/node/60735 > > > Integral > > practitioners should not be focusing on > > transforming the world, but rather helping > > people better translate the world from > > wherever they might be after all, the > > best way to foster and support people's > > growth in the long run is to make them as > > healthy as possible in the short run." > > > > Yes this is pretty much the emphasis in Ken Wilber's integral approaches. > Bringing to people new translations of their worldview at their present level > of structural development that makes them thrive better where ever they are > developmentally. This will make easier a healthy transformation to higher > structural levels. True transfromation cannot be forced. It happens on its > own, when you are ready. > > According to this philosophy at any level of structural development people > can get access to high meditative states,and benefit from them. Structural > development and learning to access to advanced states like Unity > consciousness in TM are in this philosophy seen as two different phenomenon. > A person can be in Unity state, and simultaneously low in his structural > personal development. This is an important distinction to make. And this I > think explains the many nasty things that have got revealed around gurus, who > have been perceived as enlightened by many. While they can be in an Unity > state, they can be morally, psychosexually etc. at a low developmental level. >
Are you asserting that -legitimate- states of higher consciousness including God Consciousness and Unity Consciousness can be obtained with total disregard for the principles of Dharma? > Another important feature of integral life practices is to learn to look at > issues from as many perspectives as possible, not being stuck in just one > interpretation, or one way of seeing. This in itself can be very > transformative. Generally speaking the more evolved you are structurally the > more perspectives you can contain and own in yourself. > > Irmeli >
