Anthology: Ken Wilber -
Vision of a Transpersonal Society
a society of men and women who, by virtue of an initial glimpse into
transcendence:
- will start to understand vividly their common humanity and
brother/sisterhood;
- will transcend roles based on bodily differences of skin colour and sex;
- will grow in mental/physical clarity;
- will make policy decisions on the basis of intuition as well as
rationality;
- will see the same Consciousness in each and every soul, indeed, in all
creation, and will start to act correspondingly;
- will find mental-psychic consciousness to be transfigurative of body
physiology, and adjust medical theory accordingly;
- will find higher motivations in men and women that will drastically
alter economic incentives and economic theory;
- will understand psychological growth as well as evolutionary
transcendence, and develop methods and institutions not just to cure
emotional disease but to foster the growth of consciousness;
- will see education as a discipline in transcendence, body to mind to
soul, and regear educational theory and institutions accordingly;
- will find technology an appropriate aid to transcendence, not a
replacement for it;
- will use mass media, instant telecommunication, and human/computer
linkages as vehicles of bonding-consciousness and unity;
- will find sexuality to be not just a play of reproductive desire
but the initial basis of kundalini sublimation into psychic spheres;
- will view all people as ultimately one in Spirit... and thus
respect all true religious preferences whilst condemning any
sectarian claim to possess "the only way";
- will realize that politicians, if they are to govern all aspects of
life, will have to demonstrate an understanding and mastery of all
aspects of life - body to mind to soul to spirit.
(Up from Eden p.346 - minor deletions)
PIERS
Clement
Last updated 22 July 1999
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