integral theory
Shamanic Cartography: How Ancient Consciousness Maps Encode Neurological Reality
Every civilization creates maps. The question is: maps of what?
Emergency Medicine & Trauma Management Training Data
START triage is designed for mass casualty incidents. Every patient arriving at the clinic during an emergency should be rapidly categorized:
Stages of Consciousness Development: From Survival to Spirit
Here is a proposition that, once understood, restructures how you see every human conflict, every political debate, every healing modality, and every spiritual tradition: consciousness develops through identifiable stages, each with its own logic, values, and worldview. Each stage transcends and...
Transpersonal Psychology and Stanislav Grof
Modern psychology was built on two premises: that the psyche is contained within the individual skull, and that consciousness is produced by the brain. Transpersonal psychology — the "fourth force" after behaviorism, psychoanalysis, and humanistic psychology — challenges both premises.
Sri Aurobindo's Integral Yoga: The Next Stage of Human Evolution
Every awakening model described so far — Wilber's integral stages, the Buddhist jhanas, kundalini rising, Maharishi's seven states — maps the territory of individual consciousness development. Sri Aurobindo went further.
Cook-Greuter's Ego Development Framework: The Most Empirically Validated Map of Adult Consciousness
If Ken Wilber built the most comprehensive architecture diagram of consciousness and Spiral Dynamics mapped the cultural operating systems of human civilizations, then Susanne Cook-Greuter produced the most rigorously validated firmware diagnostic tool for individual ego development. Her...
Spiral Dynamics: The DNA of Consciousness Evolution
If individual consciousness develops through predictable stages — as Piaget, Kohlberg, Maslow, and Wilber have demonstrated — then collective consciousness must do the same. Societies, organizations, and entire civilizations develop through stages of increasing complexity, just as organisms do.
The Unified Map of Awakening: A Meta-Synthesis of All Consciousness Stage Models
We have now surveyed the major consciousness development maps produced by human civilization: Wilber's integral model, Spiral Dynamics, Cook-Greuter's ego development, Maharishi's seven states, the Buddhist jhanas, the Theravada path of liberation, kundalini rising, Aurobindo's integral yoga,...
Ken Wilber's Integral Model: The Spectrum of Consciousness from Archaic to Integral
If consciousness is the operating system running on biological wetware, then Ken Wilber built the most comprehensive architecture diagram ever drawn. Over five decades and more than twenty-five books, Wilber mapped the entire spectrum of consciousness — from the pre-verbal instinctual awareness...