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| | Selected quotes from
"The Atman Project"
by Ken Wilber
Quest Books © 1996, Softcover |
"Thus, for instance, as the individual reaches the egoic-syntaxical level, he is committed to an
almost perpetual 'talking to himself,' a constant subvocal chatter which unceasingly translates
and edits his reality according to the symbolic structures of his language and thought as well
as the major syntaxical rules and premises of his membership reality (and secondarily, his own
philosophic bands)."
Page 48
"And thus, as we will see in the next sections, any time a series of translations fails its
purpose and breaks down-either ill the Outward or Inward Arc-the individual is precipitated into
a major transformation. Wherever translation fails, transformation ensues -- and it can
be regressive transformation or progressive transformation, depending on factors we will later
discuss."
Page 48
"...we do not normally and consciously control its processes of circulation, growth, digestion,
feeling, and all the millions of spontaneous variables that add up to the 'natural wisdom of
the body.' The ego, on the other hand, we generally assume to be the home of many voluntary,
controlled, and purposive activities. The total self, then, as the higher ego-and-body union,
is a type of conjunction of both of these experiential realms-the voluntary and the
involuntary."
Page 57
"Now here is the major point: the child's, 'allocentric openness' and an appropriate autocentric
or sensory awareness can be 'regained,' as it were, but now in an entirely different context..."
Page 67
"But sensory awareness itself, cleansed of the overlay of egoic and cultural schematization,
begins taking in the waking relam with a clarity and richness that is striking."
Page 70
"The person accepts that level's substitute gratifications and refuses to develop or differentiate
or transcend any further. This is what psychoanalysis means when it says, "The consequence of
experiencing excessive satisfactions [too much Eros-incest] at a given level is that this level
is renounced only with reluctance;"
Page 153
"...just so, certain forms of high-subtle meditation are so blissful that the individual might
remain stuck (in fusion) in that realm for a prolonged period, refusing to surrender that
subtle-level thumbsucking and thus refusing entry into the causal realm."
Page 153
"For the existentialists, this is no mere theorizing without substance, for not only have they
spotted the disease (lack of meaning in life, or lack of self-actualizing Eros), they have spotted
the cause ,is well. They have pinpointed ii)4y I won't allow intentionality to emerge from the
ground-unconscious, or why I won't intend my life and find meaning in it. And it is what we
have been talking about all along: it is the fear of death...."
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