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.
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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.