Ken Wilber
Shadow Work and Jungian Integration
Category: Emotional Healing | Level: Jaguar (West) — Medicine Wheel
Stages of Consciousness Development: From Survival to Spirit
Here is a proposition that, once understood, restructures how you see every human conflict, every political debate, every healing modality, and every spiritual tradition: consciousness develops through identifiable stages, each with its own logic, values, and worldview. Each stage transcends and...
Transpersonal Psychology and Stanislav Grof
Modern psychology was built on two premises: that the psyche is contained within the individual skull, and that consciousness is produced by the brain. Transpersonal psychology — the "fourth force" after behaviorism, psychoanalysis, and humanistic psychology — challenges both premises.
Spiritual Bypassing: When Awakening Becomes a Defense Against Being Human
The most insidious obstacle on the spiritual path is not materialism, not doubt, not laziness, and not even the dark night. It is spiritual bypassing — the systematic use of spiritual concepts and practices to avoid confronting unresolved psychological wounds, developmental deficits, and...
Sri Aurobindo's Integral Yoga: The Next Stage of Human Evolution
Every awakening model described so far — Wilber's integral stages, the Buddhist jhanas, kundalini rising, Maharishi's seven states — maps the territory of individual consciousness development. Sri Aurobindo went further.
Cook-Greuter's Ego Development Framework: The Most Empirically Validated Map of Adult Consciousness
If Ken Wilber built the most comprehensive architecture diagram of consciousness and Spiral Dynamics mapped the cultural operating systems of human civilizations, then Susanne Cook-Greuter produced the most rigorously validated firmware diagnostic tool for individual ego development. Her...
Spiral Dynamics: The DNA of Consciousness Evolution
If individual consciousness develops through predictable stages — as Piaget, Kohlberg, Maslow, and Wilber have demonstrated — then collective consciousness must do the same. Societies, organizations, and entire civilizations develop through stages of increasing complexity, just as organisms do.
Ken Wilber's Integral Model: The Spectrum of Consciousness from Archaic to Integral
If consciousness is the operating system running on biological wetware, then Ken Wilber built the most comprehensive architecture diagram ever drawn. Over five decades and more than twenty-five books, Wilber mapped the entire spectrum of consciousness — from the pre-verbal instinctual awareness...