Ken Wilber & The 5 Different Types of Unconscious

[kieranperez]

I would like to share the following PDF file which is a paper written by Ken Wilber back in the 70's on the developmental unfolding of consciousness (I would say mind rather than consciousness but any who...) and the 5 different types of unconscious. I get the strong sense that many people here truly just don't know what they're talking about and just going with modern and post modern social media slogans when they speak of "subconscious" or "unconscious" or "shadows" or "integrate" or whatever. This is paper I'm sharing is an effort to try and correct some of that lazy thinking as this stuff is very complex and I personally don't like to see something like this get dilluted and shallow and people miss a whole depth of understanding that needs to be had in order to truly get a solid grip of what exactly is going on when we're doing any sort of transformative practice regardless of whether it's meditative, psychoanalytic (highly recommend), psychedelics, somatic, all of the above, or anything else. 

With my finger wagging out the way, Ken Wilber has done a phenomenal job at actually categorizing different types of unconscious which is actually very helpful and clears up a lot of confusion among the different schools of psychology, particularly the psychoanalytic schools that began with Sigmund Freud, as there's a lot of disagreement about the status of the unconscious. 

I could go on but I'm tired of typing. Here ya go. 

https://www.atpweb.org/jtparchive/trps-11-79-01-002.pdf

[Bojan V]

Thank you for pdf. He wrote about this also in his book The Atman project and also he gave many details on this topic in his book The Religion of Tomorrow.

[herghly]

5 hours ago, Bojan V said:

Thank you for pdf. He wrote about this also in his book The Atman project and also he gave many details on this topic in his book The Religion of Tomorrow.

The Religion of Tomorrow is a fantastic book. But I think I only understand 15-20 % of it 

[kieranperez]

2 hours ago, herghly said:

The Religion of Tomorrow is a fantastic book. But I think I only understand 15-20 % of it 

It’s really good that you’re honest about that I wouldn’t be surprised if most people on this forum truly understand 5% of what’s actually being said. So that’s great you see that. 

[Bojan V]

@herghly

4 hours ago, herghly said:

The Religion of Tomorrow is a fantastic book. But I think I only understand 15-20 % of it 

Same with me. But it is good to know what is ahead of us. I really like his descriptions of different types of shadow pathology for both, the  structure-stages and the states-stages.