In the middle of an hour long meditation this morning the term “Meta systematic bypass” rang through my mind. It just surfaced again. Is this a thing?
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I have an irrational dislike of stage models, but this is a pretty helpful distinction!
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Ha. :)
My dislike is mostly pragmatic, sort of more about how they are often misappropriated into something like a credentials program.
Which, y'know, they aren't.
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Can you say more about stage theories being misappropriated into a credentials program? Where does this happen / who does it / in what context? Not sure I know of examples (apart from a single highly peculiar one in Kegan’s most recent book)
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I meant I've had many interactions with practitioners who had very rigid-but-wrong interpretations of stage-based models, that they used to pigeon-hole experiences.
'Irrational' since people also get fossilized without recourse to well-defined models, which is often much worse.
There were many. Most were Buddhists of the Theravadan and Mahayanan dispositions, when they weren't syncretic dabblers like myself.
But I've had similar experiences with yogis and new agers among others.
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Is also self-criticism.
When I was less experienced, I was v. preoccupied with how my experiences fit into which model, what stage etc.
Now the models seem less important than the practice, which is amorphous and self-referential.
Maps to one model, several, none... it varies.
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