Richard Rohr Copyright 2014 Center for Action and Contemplation THE PRESENT CONSENSUS ON LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS EGOCENTRIC EARLY LEVELS ArchaicInfantile Level Unitive Innocence and Absorption Beige1 of adults ID: 461326
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CONSPIRE 2014
Richard Rohr
Copyright © 2014 Center for Action and ContemplationSlide2
THE PRESENT CONSENSUS
ON LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESSSlide3
EGOCENTRIC EARLY
LEVELSArchaic/Infantile Level:
Unitive Innocence and Absorption (Beige)—.1% of adults
Magical world of powers:
Animistic world of magic (Purple)—10%
Imperial order and glory:
Might makes right/Feudalism (Red)—20%
My Mythic Truth:
Secure world of Unquestioned Truth/True Believers (Blue)—40%Slide4
MINOR DEATH OF EGOCENTRICITY REQUIRED TO MOVE FORWARD:
SOCIOCENTRIC MIDDLE LEVELSSlide5
Rational/Organizational:
Effectiveness, technique, intelligence (Orange)—30%
Pluralistic Equality:
Assumes “equal rights” is the highest level (Green). So close to the finish line that much of today’s sophisticated society stops here, if it even arrives here (“
Boomeritis
” a combination of arrogance and individualism which will not let go of its separateness and superiority—grace is required). It can be called “Flatland,” contemptuous of both lower and higher stages—10% of the world population, 20% of the USA, and 15% of the people in power in the West.Slide6
Major death of ego
: Normally must be initiated by Reality/God/Circumstances. No one goes here willingly or with understanding. The true “Dark Night.”
Wisdom or Non-Dual Consciousness:
Early stage enlightenment (Yellow and Turquoise Stages). Only now can we have the freedom and ability to INCLUDE the value of previous stages and not need to hate or reject any of them. A “rediscovery of hierarchy” whereby you are fully open to stages beyond where you are now! Cosmic humility.
First
time this happens!
True
INTEGRATION—less than 2% of the population, less than 1% of those in power.Slide7
The Journey of
Faith Development Slide8
Each movement forward tends to throw out the previous stages, and the immediately preceding stage it throws out with a vengeance!
Most revolutions and reformations up to now. We must stop doing this.Slide9
Purple Level (Popular Catholicism through the Middle Ages
)To Transcend: God
as a spirit that I can coax and control by magic &
superstition
To Include:
Perhaps
wearing “a medal” or a cross helps my focus and
attention.Slide10
Red Level (Crusader Mentality, Inquisition, and the early Reformation
)To Transcend:
Tribal
belonging and forced membership to impose
belief
To Include:
Loyalty
to a Tradition and a group is also
good.Slide11
Blue Level
(The Reformation and Counter Reformation Catholicism)To Transcend:
Faith
as doggedly holding out and holding on to
beliefs
To Include:
Patience
, Perseverance, and the Humility of BeliefSlide12
Orange Level (Mainline Protestantism today and Vatican II Catholicism
)To Transcend:
Propriety
, reason, and process as the disguised meaning of
faith
To Include:
A
proper use of intelligence and group governanceSlide13
Green Level (The postmodern mind in any group
)To Transcend: Pluralistic
Equality is the highest meaning of
enlightenment.
To Include:
Protecting
human rights and human dignitySlide14
SECOND TIER CONSCIOUSNESSSlide15
Yellow and Turquoise Levels (
Mysticism in various stages)Only at this stage CAN YOU both transcend and include every previous stage as both bad and good, which means you have gotten over the
arrogance
and individualism of the “Mean Green”
level
and the self-sufficiency of all
levels,
and you can compassionately understand and support the good at every level.Slide16
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