Boy and girl together are killed, we roast them and eat them carefully, for they are of the Mother. Blood is of the Mother, and we offer blood to Her, which comes back as our food.
I am Tiamat, of the fifth house, planter of the seeds that were brought to us by ancestors in the days before time began. My blood is of the Mother, my bones are of the Mother, my heart beats with the time calling us to Mother. My body mixes with earth, which is the Mother.
Few understand Mother. She is Life, her blood makes life. We offer her blood, the boy and girl are killed together, which we eat for the Mother, or else the seeds will not bring forth. Each four moon season, we sacrifice for Mother, which comes back as our food, If we do not sacrifice, we all will perish. I, Tiamat, know this, from the ancestors who brought us the seeds, in the days before time began.

Wilber Correlations

Correlative Basic Structures: impulse/emotion, image, symbol

General Self-sense: bodyego

Specific aspects: substages; -axial body - pranic body (typhonic) -image body (magical)

“The Axial and Pranic Self

cognitive style- feeling; sensorimotor; acausality;axial-images;exoceptual

affective elements- elementary emotions (fear appetite, rage, pleasure); pranic level

motivational/conative factors- immediate survival, pleasure/pain principle” Atman Project pg16

Axial Body

“By axial body I mean essentially the physical body felt as distinct from the physical environment….the infant does not recognize an axial-body until around 4-6 months ( and does not differentiate self and not-self until around age 15 to 18 months)…..Axial images recognize objects (items somehow different from the self) but only present objects… His world is limited to the simple, immediate and the still rather vague present. At any rate, Under the influence of systems of axial images, the infant constructs both a type of external reality as well as a physical or bodily sense of inward self.” Atman Project pg 13

Pranic Body

“Because a definite organic self is starting to emerge, the basic emotions of this self likewise begin to emerge. This basic emotional component (as opposed to the cruder reflex-instincts of the uroboros) we call the pranic level or pranic body. But at this stage the emotions are still rather primitive and elementary…….

Since, as we have seen the characteristic time component of the axial level is nothing but the immediate present…..(the) short-circuited emotions are the only emotions that can be floated or carried by the axial image in the quick and immediate present, no other emotions can be sustained in the quick and immediate present…..The emotions characteristic of this early stage are- as general psychoanalytic thought also maintains- very quick, short circuited, and thus they tend toward immediate and undiluted discharge, there being nothing in time to prevent them.” Atman Project pg14

“The Image-Body Self

cognitive style- parataxic, magical primary process, multivalent images; sensorimotor completion

affective elements- sustained emotions, wishes, anxiety, rudimentary desires

motivational/conative elements- wish fulfillment, anxiety reduction, prolonged survival and safety

temporal mode- extended present

mode of self- non reflexive body-image” Atman Project pg 21

“The Image-Body

The emergence of the infant’s ability to create extensive imagery marks a decisive point in development. Most significantly , the image allows the infant to eventually construct an extended world of objects and an expanded mode of time, both of which contribute greatly to the establishment of “object constancy” ..the first axial-image is said to be of the breast, the first significant concrete image is of the “mothering-one” (Sullivan), for “the first object of every individual is the mother”…..The infant thus enters the decisive but rather prolonged relationship with the Great Mother, a relationship played out on the bodily plane as an existential (life or death) drama between the individual organism and its mothering environ….according to Erik Erikson, it involves nothing less than a conflict between basic trust and mistrust.

We may further note that this whole stage of development (reaching back to the axial/pranic level and forward to the anal and even phallic stage) has been intensely studied by Jung and his followers as the “realm of maternal symbolism” and by the Freudians as the stages of the pre- Oedipal mother….. Atman Project pg 17”

“Just as the infant creates and organizes a nexus of images and impressions of the mothering one, as well as other significant environmental objects, he likewise begins the correlative construction of nonreflexive self-images, commonly called at this stage, “body images” Body-images are simply the “image pictures” of the physical or axial body and the “closer” the body image is to the physical or axial body the more “accurate” it is said to be…….” Atman Project pg18

“The infant can begin to imagine or picture the existence of those objects not immediately present ( this differentiates the image proper from the axial-image; the axial-image can picture only present objects, the image proper can picture nonpresent objects). Thus the infants present matrix of experience is to some extent expanded through time in a symbolic and representative fashion. The infant begins to enter the world of an extended, but as yet random, series of moments. He moves in an extended present through which float the unorganized images of past events and random images of future possibilities.” Atman Project pg18

“This basic and magical confusion of inner and outer, psyche and material environment, is one of the characteristics of the preverbal primary process (a point Arieti also makes). It is as if this most primitive of cognitive forms, which develops as the psyche crystallizes out of the material pleroma, partakes of both the mental subject and the material object, belonging to neither exclusively, but reflecting the first rudimentary spark of knowledge that occurs when subject and object first begin to differentiate.” Pg 20 Atman Project

“The presence of the image also greatly extends the infant’s emotional and motivational life, for now he can respond not only to present events, persons and objects, but also to the mere image of these entities, which themselves may or may not be present. For the image can evoke the same types of emotions and feelings as the actual object or person. Furthermore, the infant can for the first time experience prolonged emotions, for not only can the image evoke feeling tones, it can sustain and prolong them. Thus, as Arieti so clearly shows, the infant can experience anxiety, which is nothing but imagined, and thus sustained, fear. Likewise, he can wish, since a wish is simply an imagined pleasure.” Atman Project pg 20-21

“The overall typhonic stage(s)-axial, pranic and image- is in some way similar to the whole oral (and especially oral sadistic) period descirved by psychoanalysis. The typhonic realm itself, however, reaches back to the alimentary uroboros, and will reach forward to anal and phallic aspects of the subsequent stages of development.” Pg17 Atman Project

Defenses: selfobject fusion, projection, splitting

Possible Pathology: borderline

Fulcrum: F-2 emotional self

Treatment: structure building ( Gedo: unification, optimal disillusion)

Moral Span: impulsive, magical, narcissism, hedonic

locus: bodily self

Affect: protoemotions: tension, fear, rage, satisfaction

Levels of Food: emotional exchange- sex, safety + power, belongingness+ care

Gender identity: differentiated basic gender identity

Worldview name: magical

Worldview characteristics: egocentric, word magic, narcissistic; locus of magic power=ego

Basic Structures In Other Systems

Huston Smith: terrestrial body

Plotinus: pleasure/pain images

Buddhist Vijnanas:

Stan Grof: aesthetic ( Psychodynamic Freudian, COEX systems)

John Battista: emotion

Chakras: emotional/sexual- svadisthana

General Great Chain: body

James Mark Baldwin: prelogical

Aurobindo: vital-emotional

Kabbalah: Yesod

Vedanta state: waking

Vedanta sheath:emotional/sexual (pranamayakosha)

William Tiller: astral

Leadbetter (Theosophy): astral (emotional)

Adi Da: emotional body

Cognitive Development

Average age of emergence: 1-3 years

Piaget: preconceptual, preoperational

“During the early stages the world and the self are one; neither term is distinguished from the other (pleromatic-uroboric). But when they become distinct, these two terms begin by remaining very close to each other; the world is still conscious and full of intentions, the self is still material, so as to speak. At each step in the process of dissociation these two terms evolve in the sense of the greatest divergence, but they never in the child ( nor in the adult for that matter) entirely separate…..At every stage there remains in the conception of nature what we might call ‘adherences’, fragments of internal experience which still cling to the external world. “ The Essential Piaget (Atman Project- Ken Wilberpg20-21)

Commons & Richards: 2a nominal actions

Kurt Fischer (level): 4 single representational set (20-24months)

Alexander (levels of mind): prana-emotion-desire

Overall cognitive lines: gross (ending), gross reflecting

Pascual-Leone: preoperational

Herb Koplowitz:

Sri Aurobindo: vital-emotional

Partricia Arlin: preoperational

Gisela Labouvie-Vief:

Jan Sinnott: preoperational

Michael Basseches:

Self-Related Streams

Dr Arieti: “ Is it possible at this sensorimotor…..or exceptual pleasure-principle level (that is, the overall axial/pranic body) to experience a sense or awareness of the self, which includes and integrates the functions that we have studied? If by ‘self’ we mean a living subject, then of course we can state at this stage the self is an organism operating at a protoemotional-exoceptual level (axial image) . If by self we mean the individual as he is known to himself, then we must say that this state of consciousness is rudimentary. It probably consists of a bundle of simple relations between physiostates, perceptions, protoemotions, and exocepts- relations which at first involve some parts of the body, particularly the mouth (oral stage). However, as patterns of motor behavior develop in relation to external objects, a kind of primitive motor identity, as well as awareness of the totality of one’s body, probably evolves even in subhuman animals.

Jane Loevinger: -symbiotic -impulsive

John Broughton:

Sulivan, Grant and Grant (self integration): 2 manipulative-demanding

Wilber: F-2 (remnants of deeper psychic trail)

Jenny Wade: naive

Michael Washburn: primal repression

Erik Erikson: autonomy vs. Shame and doubt

Major Self Line: frontal (or ego)

Neumann mythological stage: The great mother

Neumann psychological stage: magic, maternal incest, body self narcissism, oedipus electra?

Scheler (structural hardware) instinctual effects

Pascual-Leone (ego development):

Karl Jaspers:

Rudolph Steiner: astral (emotional body)

Don Beck (Spiral Dynamics): magical-animistic

Susanne Cook Greuter perspective: none

SCG self esteem: symbiotic

SCG characteristics: confused confounded

Clare Graves (ego types): 2 magical animistic

Robert Kegan: 1 impulsive

Wilber: F-2 emotional

The Self Related Stages of Morals and perspectives

Kohlberg (moral judgment):0 magic wish

Torbett (levels of action inquiry): 1 impulsive

Blanchard-Fields (socioemotional development):

Kitchener & King (reflective judgment): 1 concrete category

Deidre Kramer ( social-cognitive stages):

William Perry (self-outlook):

Turner/Powell ( social role-taking): identifactory

Cheryl Armon ( stages of the good):

Peck (moral motivation): amoral-impulsive

Wilber worldview name: magical

Wilber worldview: general characteristics: egocentric, word magic, narcissistic, locus of magic power=ego

Howe (moral character): physical

Rawls (moral positions):

Buel ( moral stages):anomy

Selman (role taking): 0 egocentric

Gilligan (female hierarchy of moral stages)selfish

Moral span, those deemed worthy of moral consideration (Wilber): impulsive, magical, narcissism, hedonic

Stages of Spirituality

Hazrat Inayat Khan (Sufi): mundane person (bodily desires)

Mahamudra:

Fowler: 1 magical, projective

Wilber: magical

Underhill:

Helminisk:

Funk: libidinal, prepersonal

Daniel Brown ( cross cultural meditative states):

Muhyiddin ibn’Arabi (stations of zikr): animal world

St Palamas:

Traditional Samadhis

Highest Yoga Tantra (HYT)- Seven stages of practice:

HYT - levels of consciousness: perception-impulse (3^rd), emotional-image (4^th)

HYT - phenomenological signs of appearance: 3^rd dissolves into 4^th fireflies

General Great Chain: body

St Teresa ( seven stages of interior life)

Chirban ( Eastern Orthodox Christianity)

St Dionysius (pseudo):

Yoga Sutras of Patanjali:

St Gregory Nyssa:

Alexander TM

Miscellaneous Developmental Lines

Erotic Relationships (Fortune): emotional

Needs (Maslow): beginning of safety

Levels of food (relational exchange) Wilber: emotional exchange, -sex -safety, power -belongingness, care

Modal experience (Chinen): enactment

Empathy (Benack)

Gender identity (Wilber) differentiated basic-gender identity

Affect Wilber: protoemotions: tension, fear, rage, satisfaction

Miscellaneous

Universal Waves of Development ( H. Gardner)

Art (Wilber): emotional-expressivist (feeling-expression, magical imagery

Melvin Miller (MM) Intermediate-level Worldviews - teleological

MM ateleological:

MM antiteleological:

Sociocultual Evolution:

Major Epochs (Wilber) Cultural: magic typhonic

Major Epochs (Wilber) Social: foraging - tribes organized hunt

Habermas (epochs): archaic- familiarisation of male

Jean Houston (G.Heard)pre-individual constricted consciousness

Habermas (scarce resource): power over nature

Age: Paleolithic, Mesolithic

Lenski (techno-economic base): Paleo- simple hunting and gathering Mess- advanced hunting and gathering

Sociocultural (Wilber): archaic/magic

Jean Gebser: archaic/magic

A. Taylor ( Levels of social organization):s1- family, clan, band

Jay Earley: 1 tribal hunting magic

Robert Bellah (evolution of religious systems):primitive / archaic

Duane Elgin era consciousness: 1 archaic humans (contracted consciousness) 2 hunter-gatherer (surface consciousness)

Jurgen Habermas

Individual’s Identity: bodyego, natural identity

Level of communication: actions and consequences of actions

Idea of the Good Life:

Domain of Validity:

Ethics:

James Mark Baldwin

Logical Mode (levels of consciousness): prelogical

Psychic Objects: -memory -fancy

Dualism: - present vs persisting -inner vs outer

Aesthetic: none

Religious Stage: physical spontaneous (magical)

Ethical Level:adual -projective - external necessity