In Higher Nature I explored the major stages of human development as they correlate to our experience of wellbeing and fulfillment over a lifetime. Wellbeing is a more stage-specific value of how aligned our development is to where we ought to be at that point, while fulfillment measures our degree of self-actualization with respect toContinue reading “Thresholds”
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Higher Nature
Where are you on the human journey? I’m not asking how far into the journey you happen to be or how close to the end you are in chronological terms. This isn’t a question of what you have experienced or how much of the world you have seen. The human journey refers to an evolutionaryContinue reading “Higher Nature”
The Three Stages of Consciousness
In this post I want to play with a big backgrounding idea that’s been shaping my thoughts on human nature and creative change for some time now. It’s about consciousness and how our human evolution and individual development can be understood as progressing through three distinct stages. I’m using this term in both its temporalContinue reading “The Three Stages of Consciousness”
Creative Authority
A friend in an engagement community that I weekly attend asked recently, “What, exactly, goes into this idea of ‘creative authority’?” – an idea (or ideal, really) that occupies a strategic position in the theory of human fulfillment that I’ve been working to clarify in a conversation on post-theism. It is critically important that post-theism not be definedContinue reading “Creative Authority”