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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Replying to @Meaningness @dthorson
Don't remember who said it, but..."How do you know you want to attain Enlightenment? You might not like it."
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S. T. Suzuki Roshi, maybe? The process of getting to stage 5 is generally awful, and once there it’s a letdown if you were expecting it would solve problems it doesn’t. So, yes…
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Why is it awful?
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Each of the stage transitions requires you to abandon a comfortable, functional way if being that you called “myself” and to accept that you will be confused and lost and dysfunctional and fucking up often for several years as you learn the difficult new way of being.
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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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I think I understood maybe a third of what he was on about in that book.
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