Human Development and the Spiritual Life: How Consciousness Grows Toward TransformationThe author proposes a theory of the development of consciousness in which ego is the central agent of socialization and culture and the driving force behind individual self-control and self-regulation. He reviews the literature on identity and narrative; outlines the fields of intellectual, self, moral, and consciousness development; and discusses the evidence indicating that the development of consciousness trancends the limitations of conventional ego development. |
Contents
The Relevance of Psychology to Spiritual Development WHAT DEVELOPMENT IS ABOUT | 3 |
MEDITATION AND DEVELOPMENT | 8 |
EAST AND WEST | 16 |
SPIRITUALITY AND RELIGION | 19 |
SCIENCE | 22 |
The Nature of Development AGENCY AND COMMUNION | 25 |
A CONCEPTION OF DEVELOPMENT AND THE NATURE OF UNIVERSALITY | 29 |
BOUNDED SELF AND IDENTITY | 31 |
FREEDOM AS REWRITING | 112 |
TEMPORALITY | 113 |
COGNITIVE STRUCTURING | 115 |
CULTURES STORIES AND SYMBOLS | 117 |
LIVES AS TEXTS | 119 |
NATURE OF REALITY | 120 |
BREACHES AND RUPTURES | 121 |
THERAPY AS NARRATIVE REPAIR | 122 |
Evolution MIND AS SIMULATION | 35 |
CHILDHOOD AS THE ARTIFICIAL AMNIOTIC ENVIRONMENT | 40 |
EGO AS MEDIATED BEING | 44 |
Impulse Control and Repression REPRESSION AND HAPPINESS | 49 |
REPRESSION AND CHILDHOOD COPING | 53 |
A COMPARISON WITH OBJECTRELATIONS THEORY | 59 |
TRANSCENDENCE AS DEREPRESSION | 62 |
Cognition FIXATION OF BELIEF | 65 |
THE PRIMACY OF THE SOCIAL | 67 |
BIOLOGICAL ARCHITECTURE | 70 |
COGNITIONS ABOUT SELF | 75 |
COGNITION AS REPRESENTATION OF SENSATION PERCEPTION AND ACTION | 76 |
Language LANGUAGE AS A CULTURAL PROSTHESIS | 79 |
LANGUAGE AS AN AUTONOMOUS DOMAIN OF SIMULATION | 81 |
LANGUAGE AS CULTURAL DETERMINATION | 83 |
Identity IDENTITY AS DEVELOPMENT AND AS ACHIEVEMENT | 93 |
IDENTITY AS FICTION AND AS CONSTRAINT | 99 |
Narrative INTRODUCTION THE TRANSITION TO THE POSTCONVENTIONAL VIA LANGUAGE | 109 |
TRANSCENDING NARRATIVE | 125 |
Epistemic Knowing RELATIVISTIC KNOWING | 137 |
DIALECTICAL KNOWING | 145 |
CHAPTER 10 | 149 |
CHANGES IN THE VERTICAL ORGANIZATION OF EGO | 153 |
THE MIDLIFE CRISIS IN DEVELOPMENT | 158 |
JUAN PASCUALLEONE | 164 |
Social and Moral Knowing LAWRENCE KOHLBERG | 169 |
CHERYL ARMON | 172 |
Cosmic Knowing SUSANNE COOKGREUTER | 175 |
KEN WILBER | 178 |
CHARLES ALEXANDER | 183 |
JAMES FOWLER | 186 |
Conclusion | 191 |
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