| |
| | Selected quotes from
"Eye to Eye"
by Ken Wilber
Random House, Inc. © 1996, Softcover |
"We do not say of a two-year-old child that he or she is resisting the learning of geometry,
because the child's mind has not yet developed and unfolded to the degree that he or she could
even begin to learn mathematics. just as we do not accuse the child of repressing mathematics,
we do not accuse him of repressing the transpersonal ... not yet, that is.
At any point on the developmental cycle, those deep structures which have not yet emerged from
the ground-unconscious are referred to as the emergent-unconscious. For someone at the ego
(or centaur) level, the low-subtle, the high-subtle, the low-causal, and the high-causal are
emergent-unconscious. They are unconscious, but not repressed."
Page 113
"Meditation is evolution; it is transformation-there is nothing really special about it.
It seems quite mysterious and convoluted to the ego because it is a development beyond the ego.
Meditation is to the ego as the ego is to the typhon: developmentally more advanced."
Page 115
"The fact that the ego, as a halfway house back to Spirit, is the first structure intelligent
enough to be aware of the already fillen state of existence, makes it appear incorrectly that
the ego caused the disease itself, when in fact it is halfway through the cure."
Page 205
"The ego, then, is no longer protected by ignorance but not yet saved by Self, and therefore
it, alone of all the states, experiences guilt, angst, and despair. But that angst, as it
appears in evolution, is not, to repeat, a sign of alienation from or deintegration of Self,
but the symptom that a cure for the disease of Self-alienation is half in progress. In evolution,
the loss of the prepersonal ignorance does indeed introduce angst, but that angst is not a symptom
of a justbroken ego-Self unity but of a just-transcended ego-animal slumber."
Page 223
Showing rows: 1 - 4 of 4
1
Click here for Amazon's Eye to Eye page |
