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From Ken Wilber has composed, I have extracted the below. Each area of development is normally mutually exclusive, except for the last stage which is inclusive. From the many minds of Trans personal Psychology and East-West studies, Ken Wilder and his colleagues have after 2-3 decades came up the notion of at least two different types of components of the mind, there are listed in a tabular form below: Structures of consciousness (the way we grow up) States of consciousness (the way we wake up) archaic magic mythic rational pluralistic integral and higher gross subtle cause based pure witnessing non-dual These are both development sequences. Ken says that each state and structure sees the other states or structures as incorrect, or inferior to the current state, except for integral or non-dual, which sees all the states for what they are and how they are needed. By the way structures are how we think, and states are essentially our level of spiritual aw...

In the last year I have spent a lot of time reading and researching many books by some brilliant authors. James Hollis, Deepak Chopra, Wayne dryer, the Dali Lama, Ken Wilber,  Caroline  Myss  and Ekhard Tolle to name a few. No this is not a name dropping exercise but rather an introduction. Add to that the many leadership and google talk and sounds true self acceptance videos I have watched and listened to over the last year, and my mind is still searching for my own perfect porridge like Goldilocks, but I feel happier doing it.  I would still recommend that each individual, goes on their own internal quest to try get a better understanding of themselves, their ego and their own spiritual beliefs.  But I think that any logical individual needs to look at the book "The Integral life Program" by Ken Wilber and co. Why is this book a must. Well it firstly breaks things down into easy to understand sections of life. Namely mind, body, spirit and s...