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Integral Theory, Awakening, and Society || Ken Wilber

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Stages Wax and Wax

developmental theory acknowledges as Maslow does that these needs can arise. Multiply they can arise together. They can arise alongside of each other. But there does tend to be a general shift in your center of awareness, your center of gravity from a lower stage to a higher stage. And if the higher stage does include as an actual component of its own self being that actually includes a previous stage, then that previous stage has to be there in some sense for the higher stage to include it. We have to have first person awareness and first person words that I need, mine, before we can be aware of another person, a you, a thou, and so on.

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