The second half of this recent episode of The Ken Show is live!
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“The entire Kosmos arises in the eye of Spirit, in the I of Spirit, in my own intrinsic awareness, this simple ever-present state, and I am simply that.” -Ken Wilber
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PART 5: THE FIVE MEANINGS OF “SPIRITUALITY”
“Spiritualiity” is a fairly nebulous word that can mean many different thiings to diifferent people. Here Ken offers a brief overview of the five major meanings of “spiritual”:
1. Spirituality as the highest levels in any of our developmental lines;
2. Spirituality as a particular line of development;
3. Spirituality as a particular attitude (such as openness or love) that can be expressed at any given stage.
4. Spirituality as an extraordinary (but temporary) peak experience;
5. Spiiriitualtiy as the sum total of all the highest stages of all our developmental lines.
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PART 6: OPENING UP: THE LINES OF SPIRIT
What is the relationship between the “Eye of Spirit” and our multiple lines of intelligence? How do things like cognitive intelligence, spiritual intelligence, and moral intelligence influence or factor into our “Eye of Spirit” mode of knowing? What other lines that are critical for us to track in this discussion?
Most of us are already familiar with the “4 Ups” — Wake Up, Grow Up, Clean Up, and Show Up — which refer to four related (but irreducible) dimensions of human experience. Here Ken introduces a fifth category, which he calls “Opening Up”, which relates to bringing more awareness to our multiple capacities, talents, and lines of development.
This was one of my favorite parts of this entire discussion, and it’s something you definitely do not want to miss.
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PART 7: VERIFYING NONDUALITY
It’s hard to say anything at all about non-duality without immediately contradicting everything that was already said. But Ken is much better at this than most, which is just one of the many reasons he is so much fun to talk to.
As Ken explains, non-duality can not be “located” anywhere on the Four Quadrant map. It does not exist within any of these dimensions — rather, it is the paper the quadrants are drawn upon, as well as the contents of everything drawn.
But if nonduality transcends both interiors and exteriors, individuals and collectives, and every other polarity you can imagine, why is it that nondual reality can itself only be disclosed via Zone 1 (the “inner” of the Upper-Left quadrant) state-training practice? Is it conceivable that we could one day find equivalent “proof” of nonduality by using other methodologies in other quadrants?
It’s an important question, because the recognition of nonduality in Ken’s framework leads some people to believe that Integral Philosophy is a version of “idealism”, where everything in existence is occurring within some fundamentally irreducible “mind” somewhere. Since the only injunction to actually “verify” nondual reality exists in the Zone 1 phenomenologial space, this can mislead some people into thinking that the UL quadrant itself is somehow “primary”, and everything else somehow emanates from there. This foregrounds some important distinctions between ontology (what exists) and epistemology (how we know what exists) that we hope to cover in a future episode of The Ken Show.
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PART 8: ALWAYS ALREADY
The final chapter of Eye of Spirit, titled “Always Already: The Brilliant Clarity of Ever-Present Consciousness”, represents one of the most beautiful and impactful pieces of spiritual writing Ken has ever produced. Ken reads a passage from this chapter as a final capstone for our discussion.
https://integrallife.com/the-eye-of-spirit/
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All of us possess three primary modes of perception that we use to disclose reality – the “Eye of Flesh”, the “Eye of Mind”, and the “Eye of Spirit”. Watch as Ken and Corey explore these ideas and the many ways we perceive and interpret spiritual realities.
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