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The 9 Stages Of Ego Development - Part 3

Actualized.org - Self-Help, Psychology, Consciousness, Spirituality, Philosophy

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The Importance of Language in Human Beings

At this stage you must learn to live in attention of paradox, relativity, meaning and meaninglessness. All habits of mind thinking and theory making start to be seen as elaborate defense mechanisms against knowing the impermanence of the self. There is a capacity now to draw from and appreciate insight from non rational sources. This capacity significantly increases beyond earlier stages. These trans rational, non rational, non quantifiable sources of insight and knowledge become more important than rational deliberation. At this stage there are momentary experiences where the knower and known merge and the personal self disappears. But these are usually fleeting, temporary. They're not permanent. The ego gets younow, the ego starts to fall in

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