This is a user-space draft. Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 07:03, 17 May 2015 (UTC) |
In the 1970's and 1980's, following Piaget's model, several "structural stage models" of human psychological development were developed. Ken Wilber tried to integrate those models into one model, synthesizing them with Path-descriptions of Buddhism and Vedanta.
Wilber | Wilber[1] | Gebser | Piaget | Fowler | Age |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Transpersonal | Nondual | Integral | Formal-operational | 6. Universalizing | 45+ years? |
Causal | |||||
Subtle | |||||
Psychic | |||||
Personal | Centaur (Vision-logic) | 5. Conjunctive | 35+? | ||
Formal-reflexive | Rational | 4. Individual-reflexive | 21+ years? | ||
3. Synthetic- Conventional |
12+ years | ||||
Rule/role mind | Mythic-rational | Concrete operational | 2. Mythic- literal |
7-12 years | |
Pre-personal | Rep-mind | Mythic | Pre-operational | 1. Intuitive- projective |
2-7 years |
Phantasmic-emotional | Magical | Sensoric-motorical | 0. Undifferentiated Faith |
0-2 years | |
Sensori-physical | Archaic | ||||
undifferentiated or primary matrix |
Various contemplative traditions require prolonged training, and the study of a large corpus of (sacred) texts. these texts have first to be heard and learned by heart; then they are to be studied and pondered; then they are to be understoot intellectually; and finally they are to be understood "intuitively", anubhava. This is not a "spontaneous awakening", nor is it prove of a transcendental reality. On the contrary, it's the affirmation of an already set worldview.
These developments fit perfectly well into the cognitive structures: conventional learning (accept it as it is eing told to you), study and ponder it it (individual-reflective), and grasp it intuitively in all it's connections and ramifications (conjunctive; Wilber's centaur). And finally, practice it: the Bodhisattva, compassion, going to the marketplace.
The Ten Bulls also fit in: searching (synthetic-conventional), taming the bull and riding it home (individual-reflective), emptiness (conjunctive), and the marketplace (universalizing).
Buddhist dhyana does not fit in as a separate, structural stage. There is development in it's practice, though; this deveopment could fit in all over the place, but preferable at the "personal stages".
Altgether, this would give the following model:
Wilber[3] | Gebser | Piaget | Fowler | Age | Contemplative traditions |
Ten Bulls | Dhyana |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Transpersonal | Integral | Formal-operational | 6. Universalizing | 45+ years? | Bodhisattva, karuna | Marketplace | |
Centaur (Vision-logic) | 5. Conjunctive | 35+? | Intuitice understanding ("enlightenment"): bodhi, prajna, anubhava |
Emptiness | Calm Mindfulness Concentration Focus | ||
Formal-reflexive | Rational | 4. Individuative-reflective | 21+ years? | Pondering and rational understanding |
Taming and riding home (Brahman =Atman[note 1]) | ||
3. Synthetic- Conventional |
12+ years | Learning, studying, rehearsing |
Searching | ||||
Rule/role mind | Mythic-rational | Concrete operational | 2. Mythic- literal |
7-12 years | |||
Rep-mind | Mythic | Pre-operational | 1. Intuitive- projective |
2-7 years | |||
Phantasmic-emotional | Magical | Sensoric-motorical | 0. Undifferentiated Faith |
0-2 years | |||
Sensori-physical | Archaic | ||||||
undifferentiated or primary matrix |