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I've noticed that phases like "us mystics" and "mystics I know" have
cropped up in this thread. What does this mean? Is it that these
"mystics" truely are "mystics" or is it that they believe reaching a
'mystic' level is possible? The reason that I ask is that I have never
met anyone who honestly claimed to be a 'mystic'. Most accounts of
mysticism I have read about suggest that it is a fairly rare as a single
individual experience and extremely rare as an ongoing state of being.
Wilbur in "Integral Psychology" suggests that the realm of the 'mystic',
from a psychological perspective, is being able to regularly reach, and
consciously maintain a state of being beyond what he calls vision-logic,
centauric. Which is beyond the highest, turquoise or holistic, of
Graves' theory of 'Holons of Increasing Development' now called 'Spiral
Dynamics'. On page 52 Wilbur estimates that only one tenth of 1% of all
humans are at these high levels of consciousness now and "second tier
consciousness in relatively rare because it is now the 'leading edge' of
collective human evolution." And 'mystic' is somewhere above or beyond this.
At 8:13 AM CST the world population clock estimated 6,147,639,329
people. Which, if Wilbur is close, means that .001 of them or about 614
thousand worldwide are at what I will call 'premystical' levels of
development. Now let's be generous and say that the same one tenth of 1%
ratio remains between 'premystical' and 'mystical' that means right now
there a 6147 'mystics' alive in the world. That so many are either right
hear in this discussion group or personally known by our members truely
boggles the mind.
To paraphase Bob Dylan:
" I'll let you kiss the hem of my robe, if I can kiss yours ;-)"
3WD
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