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Newsletter Nr. 1.105
Amsterdam, August 20, 2023


BEING INTEGRAL - Integral-Centaurs in Vision-Logic, Part 2 - BRAD REYNOLDS

The lower stages of development, which Western psychology excels at, represent the various phases in ego development from infancy to childhood up to and including adulthood, or what's called “Growing Up” in Ken Wilber's current Integral model. By putting attention on the Integral-Centaur stage, I want to emphasize the important transition between ego development or self-identity to ego-transcendence or the shift to the trans-personal domains of our evolutionary development. This is the Integral-Centaur stage of Teal-Turquoise (in Wilber's model) or being Integral—known as the Fourth Stage of Life (in Adi Da's model)—perhaps the most difficult of all stage transitions. It is difficult, a real test, because this stage of growth involves the loosening of the sense of being a separate ego-I—or our very notion of who we are—obviously not a simple task for anyone!

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