The Five Tendences Criticized in Evolutionary Spirituality

The idea of ascending and transcending is one of the building blocks of our Western civilization. It can lead to spiritual narcissism that evolutionary spiritualities typically have an idea of a hierarchy of self actualization in humans. There can be a tendency to look down on other groups or indeed on 99.5% of humanity as less evolved,. unactualized or even kind of unreal, not fully human, subhuman.