SENSORY
MOTOR
Wilber Correlations
Correlative Basic Structures: Matter (-subatomic, molecular, polymer), Sensation, Perception, Exocept
‘The infantile fusion state is indeed a type
of paradise as we will see, but it is
one of prepersonal ignorance not transpersonal awakening. The true nature of
the prepersonal, infantile fusion state did not actually dawn on me until I ran
across Piaget’s description of it “ The self at this stage is material, so to
speak…..’297 And material union is , as we will see the lowest unity of all,
there is nothing metaphysically ‘high’ about it; the fact that it is a unity
structure, prior to subject-object differentiation, erroneously invites its identification with the truly
higher unity structures which are trans-subject/object. Atman Project Preface xvii
“Pleromatic Self
cognitive style- adualism; objectless,
spaceless, protoplasmic
affective atmosphere- total oceanic,
unconditional omnipotence, pleromatic paradise
conative or motivational factors- rudimentary,
instinctual
temporal mode- timeless as pretemporal (not
transtemporal)
mode of self- oceanic, protoplasmic, pleromatic,
materia prima”
Atman Project pg8
“Uroboric Self
cognitive style- first subject-object
differentiation; acasuality; prototaxic mode; hallucinatory wish fulfillment;
uroboric forms (early sensorimotor)
affective atmosphere- oceanic-euphoria,
primordial fear
motivational of conative factors- primitive urge
to survival (of uroboric self), physiological needs (hunger)
temporal mode- pretemporal
mode of self- uroboric, archaic, prepersonal,
reptilian, reflex, alimentary: Atman Project pg11
‘The self is “pleromatic”, as the alchemists and gnostics would put it, which essentially means that the self and the material cosmos are undifferentiated…The self is embedded in the materia prima, which is both the primal chaos of physical matter and the maternal matrix or Prakriti from whence all creation was fashioned.” Atman Project pg.7
A light hearted 'phenomenological' description::
Yearning, yearning.
Hunger, thirst, hunger here.
Swallowing,
to swallow.
Must have, must have, must have.
Move toward, run away.
Fear, fear, fear, here.
Anger, rage, explode, swallow, grasping hard, terror. One Taste; p.142.
‘There is no real space for the neonate in the sense that there is ni=o gap, distance or seperation between the pleromatic self and the environment. And likewise, there is no sense of time, since a succession of objects in space cannot be realized. The neonate’s awareness is spaceless, timeless, objectless (but not eventless)” Atman Project pg.8
Defenses: distortion, delusional projections,
hallucination, wish fulfillment
Possible Pathology: Psychosis
Fulcrum: BPM: F-0, F-1 physical self
Treatment: F-0-intensive regressive therapies,
F-1 pacification (Gedo-pacification)
Moral Span: autistic, symbolic, self-only
Affect: reactivity, sensations, physiostates:
touch, temperature, pleasure, pain
“ The uroboric self of the infant begins to
sense the oppressive and primal mood of fear for the simple reason that it is
now recognizes an other- the uroboric
other. We might note that the Jungians, the Freudians and the Kleinians all
agree that this primal fear is best interpreted as an oral one- that is, the
primal fear of being swallowed, engulfed and annihilated by the uroboric
other.” Atman pg 11
Levels of Food: material exchange- food -labor
Gender identity: morphological genetic givens,
undifferentiated
Worldview name1: Archaic-
Worldview characteristics1: undifferentiated,
pleromatic,
Worldview name2: archaic-magical
Worldview characteristics2: hallucinatory wish
fulfillment, subject object fusions, selfobjects
Huston Smith: body terrestrial
Plotinus: matter, sensation, perception
Buddhist Vijnanas: 1-5 , five senses
Stan Grof: BPM complexes: oceanic to birth,
somatic
John Battista: sensation, perception
Chakras: 1 Muladhara
General Great Chain: matter
James Mark Baldwin: prelogical
Aurobindo: physical, sensation, perception
Kabbalah: Malkhut
Vedanta state: waking
Vedanta Body: gross
Vedanta sheath: annamayakosha (food sheath)
material
William Tiller: physical, etheric
Leadbetter (Theosophy): physical, etheric (fine
physical)
Adi Da: 1.physical body
Average age of emergence: 0-18 months
Piaget: sensorimotor
Commons & Richards: 1a sensorimotor actions
Kurt Fischer (level):
1 single sensorimotor set (3-4 months)
2 sensorimotor mapping (7-8 months)
3 sensorimotor system (11-13 months)
Alexander (levels of mind): 1. Sensorimotor
Overall cognitive lines: gross
Pascual-Leone: sensorimotor
Herb Koplowitz:
Sri Aurobindo: physical
Partricia Arlin: sensorimotor
Gisela Labouvie-Vief:
Jan Sinnott: sensorimotor
Michael Basseches:
Wilber (cognitive style): adualism; objectless,
spaceless, protoplasmic
Jane Loevinger: pre-social, autistic
John Broughton:
Sulivan, Grant and Grant (self integration): 1.
Differentiation of self and non-self (uroboric differentiation)
Wilber: F-0 pre/perinatal, F-1, deeper psychic
trail remnants
Jenny Wade:
pre, peri neonatal (possible transcendental remnants) 1.reactive
Michael Washburn: original embedment
Erik Erikson: trust vs. Mistrust
Major Self Line: deeper psychic (soul) remnant
Neumann mythological stage: pleroma, uroboros
Neumann psychological stage: pleromatic,
uroboric fusion, alimentary uroboros, uroboric Mother, wish fulfillment
“ I think of this stratum of the archetypal
field as something ‘extra-personal’; as well as ‘beyond’ the opposites of psychical
and phsyical determined by consciousness…..in the development of the individual
there is an initial preponderance of uroboric factors, (prepersonal or
extrapersonal), and only in the course of development does the personal realm
come into view and achieve independence”
“The initial stage symbolized by the uroboros
corresponds to a pre-ego stage; the stage of earliest childhood when an ego
germ is just beginning to be….Naturally, then the first phases of man’s
evolving ego consciousness are under the dominance of the uroboros. They are
the phases of an infantile ego consciousness which, although not entirely
embroyonic ( that is not entirely pleromatic) and already possessing an
existence of its own, still lives in the rouns (uroboros), not yet detatched
from it and only beginning to differentiate itself from it”
Neuman- Origins and history of consciousness (
Atman pg9)
The origins of consciousness Neumann (Atman Project
pg9)
Scheler (structural hardware) organismic
survival
Pascual-Leone (ego development):
Karl Jaspers:
Rudolph Steiner: physical body, etheric body
Don Beck (Spiral Dynamics): 1. Instinctive
Susanne Cook Greuter perspective: none
SCG self esteem: presocial
SCG characteristics: autistic, undifferentiated
Clare Graves (ego types): 1. Autistic
Robert Kegan: 0. Incorporative
Wilber: F-0, F-1 physical
Kohlberg (moral judgment):
Torbett (levels of action inquiry):
Blanchard-Fields (socioemotional development):
Kitchener & King (reflective judgment):
Deidre Kramer ( social-cognitive stages):
William Perry (self-outlook):
Turner/Powell ( social role-taking):
Cheryl Armon ( stages of the good):
Peck (moral motivation):
Wilber worldview name: archaic
Wilber worldview: general characteristics:
undifferentiated, pleromatic
Howe (moral character):
Rawls (moral positions):
Buel ( moral stages):
Selman (role taking)
Gilligan (female hierarchy of moral stages0
Moral span, those deemed worthy of moral
consideration (Wilber): autistic, symbolic, self only
Hazrat Inayat Khan (Sufi): matter (nasut),
vegetable, animal
Mahamudra:
Fowler: preverbal, undifferentiated
Wilber: archaic
Underhill:
Helminisk:
Funk:
Daniel Brown ( cross cultural meditative
states):
Muhyiddin ibn’Arabi (stations of zikr): mineral,
vegetable worlds
St Palamas
Traditional Samadhis
Highest Yoga Tantra (HYT)- Seven stages of
practice:
HYT - levels of consciousness: form (1st
skandha) sensation (2nd), perception (3rd)
HYT - phenomenological signs of appearance: (1st
dissolves into 2nd) mirage, (2nd dissolves into 3rd)
smoke
General Great Chain: matter
St Teresa ( seven stages of interior life)
Chirban ( Eastern Orthodox Christianity)
St Dionysius (pseudo):
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali:
St Gregory Nyssa:
Alexander
TM
Erotic Relationships (Fortune): physical,
instinctual
Needs (Maslow): physiological
Levels of food (relational exchange) Wilber:
material exchange, food, labor
Modal experience (Chinen)
Empathy (Benack)
Gender identity (Wilber) morphological genetic
givens, undifferentiated
Affect Wilber: reactivity, sensations,
physiostates: touch, temperature, pleasure, pain
Universal Waves of Development ( H. Gardner)
Art (Wilber): sensorimotor ( initial aesthetic
impact)
Melvin Miller (MM) Intermediate-level Worldviews
- teleological
MM ateleological:
MM antiteleological:
Sociocultual Evolution:
Major Epochs (Wilber) Social:
Habermas (epochs)
Jean Houston (G.Heard)
Habermas (scarce resource)
Age:
Lenski (techno-economic base):
Sociocultural (Wilber): archaic
Jean Gebser:
A. Taylor ( Levels of social organization)]
Jay Earley
Robert Bellah (evolution of religious systems)
Duane Elgin era consciousness
Individual’s Identity:
Level of communication:
Idea of the Good Life:
Domain of Validity:
Ethics:
Logical Mode (levels of consciousness):
prelogical
Psychic Objects: sense
Dualism: adualistic, animistic, present Vs
persisting
Aesthetic: none
Religious Stage:
Ethical Level: