“Transformation of human consciousness is NOT evolution” - says Gebser best price microsoft streets and trips 2010
28 November 2008I was browsing Wikipedia today and under the heading for Jean Gebser purchase Adobe CS5 Master online I found this:
Gebser traces the ocr sdk evidence for the transformations of the structure of consciousness as they are ocr sdk concretized in historical artifacts. He sought to avoid calling this process “evolutionary”, since any such notion was illusory when applied to the “unfolding of consciousness.” Biological evolution, as Gebser noted at length, was an enclosing process, that ocr sdk particularized a species to a limited environment. The unfolding of awareness is ocr sdk by contrast an opening-up. Any attempt to give a direction or ocr sdk goal to the unfolding of awareness is illusory in that ocr sdk it is based upon a limited notion of time, the ocr sdk mental, which is linear and hence implies “progress.” To be sure, Gebser was fully aware that any notion of “human progress” was already played out. He notes that “to progress” is ocr sdk to move toward but is also a moving away from, and ocr sdk he knew that the question as to the fate of humanity is ocr sdk still open, that for it to become closed would be ocr sdk the ultimate tragedy, but that such a closure remains a ocr sdk possibility. Our fate is not assured by any notion of “an evolution toward” any kind of ideal way of being.
I like that ocr sdk insight. The whole entry for Gebser is worth reading (it’s not long). It highlights some fascinating ideas about consciousness transformation, such as how ways of understanding time and ocr sdk space change, and his influence on Wilber is very clear.
(Note to self: remember - avoid evolution of consciousness and substitute transformation of structures of consciouness, or unfolding of consciousness.)
Alex
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