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Kintsugi: The Art of Golden Repair and the Spir...
Kintsugi (金継ぎ, "golden joinery") is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with urushi lacquer mixed with powdered gold, making the cracks visible rather than hiding them. Rooted in wabi-sabi...
Stages of Faith: James Fowler's Model of Spirit...
Fowler's stages of faith describe how human meaning-making develops from childhood through adulthood across six stages: Intuitive-Projective (childhood imagination), Mythic-Literal (concrete narratives), Synthetic-Conventional (conformist, community-absorbed faith), Individuative-Reflective (critical examination), Conjunctive...
The Pre/Trans Fallacy: Why Spirituality and Reg...
The pre/trans fallacy is Ken Wilber's concept that pre-rational states (infantile fusion, magical thinking) and trans-rational states (genuine mystical experience, non-dual awareness) are confused because both are non-rational. Freud committed...
Psychosynthesis: Roberto Assagioli's Map of the...
Psychosynthesis is an integrative psychology developed by Roberto Assagioli (1888-1974) that maps the psyche as containing a lower unconscious, middle unconscious, superconscious, personal self ("I"), and transpersonal Self. Unlike psychoanalysis...
Transpersonal Psychology: The Field That Takes ...
Transpersonal psychology is the "fourth force" in psychology (after psychoanalysis, behaviourism, and humanistic psychology) that studies consciousness beyond the personal ego: mystical experiences, near-death experiences, psychedelic states, meditation-induced altered states,...
Ken Wilber and Integral Theory: Mapping All of ...
Integral Theory is Ken Wilber's comprehensive framework for understanding reality, organised through the AQAL model: All Quadrants (interior/exterior, individual/collective), All Levels (developmental stages), All Lines (multiple intelligences), All States (waking,...