Robert Kegan explaining his adult developmental theory, with @dthorson
“If you want to be Stage 5 because all the cool kids are, that’s a Stage 3 aspiration. If you want it because Stage 5 is the Correct way of thinking, that’s a Stage 4 aspiration.”https://anchor.fm/emerge/episodes/Robert-Kegan---The-Five-Stages-of-Adult-Development-And-Why-You-Probably-Arent-Stage-5-eb8gug …
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So..1 story coming out of this synthesis here is that those of us who have given up on rationality being The Way at age 28 have ~12 years ahead of us stuck in the wilderness before we can be...whatever the fuck 5 is :P (Or we're v, v wrong about our relationship to rationality)
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I mean, and/or the Kegan stages are a partial model anyways, and we can play at being at different levels...
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In Thelema the transition zone is called the Abyss. Some modern hermetics call it Chapel Perilous. These are not terms of endearment.
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Yes… I learned that from Illuminatus when I was 18. Had no idea what it was talking about naturally
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Ah, and the 4 to 5 is particularly wrenching, then?
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Well, it’s the one for which there’s the least support. And probably also the most intrinsically difficult. Icymi, I discuss that here:https://meaningness.com/metablog/stem-fluidity-bridge …
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The despair was pretty brutal. Yet, the time I had nothing to say for months was a new kind of social weird. I had no knowledge of the development models at the time. My people were freaked out.

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Yeah was quite lonely for a while
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