The Atman Project: A Transpersonal View of Human DevelopmentWilber traces human development from infancy into adulthood and beyond, into those states described by mystics and spiritual adepts. The spiritual evolution of such extraordinary individuals as the Buddha and Jesus hints at the direction human beings will take in their continuing growth toward transcendence. |
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anal archaic-unconscious archetypal aspects Atman project awareness axial-body axial-image Bardo basic begins bodily body bodyego bodymind bodyself castration complex causal causal realm centaur child cognitive concept consciousness cosmocentric deep structure desire developmental Dharmakaya differentiation disidentify dissociation ego ideal egoic egoic/personic emerge Eros evolution existential experience fear Freud fusion gross gross realm ground-unconscious higher-order unity human identified image-body incest individual infant infantile instinctual integration intentionality intuition involution ishtadeva language lower means meditation membership mental mental-ego mind mode Mother mystic Nirmanakaya object occurs one's Outward Arc parents phantasy pleromatic prepersonal present pretemporal preverbal primal primary process prior psychoanalysis psychology reality repressed sahasrara Sambhogakaya schizophrenia self-actualization self-sense separation anxiety simply soul stage submergent-unconscious substitute gratifications subtle realm superconscious superego surface structures symbolic syntaxical temporal terror Thanatos Thotrol timeless trans transcendence transformation upward translation transpersonal transverbal typhonic ultimate uncon unconscious unfolding uroboric verbal vision-image whole York