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- Deep Psychology
The Boundless Body: November Readings #5
"Your life is in your loving hands, right now. You are at the wheel, right now. How will you live it?" The fifth episode of my Boundless Body Readings series…
- Deep Psychology
The Boundless Body: November Readings #4
"All you ever experience is the ongoing flow of experience, which is your life, and this ongoing flow includes all conceptions of anything outside of it" The…
- Deep Psychology
The Boundless Body: November Readings #3
"I want to invite you to do something you may have never done before: to step into your present direct experience and see through the foundational assumptions…
- Deep Psychology
The Boundless Body: November Readings #2
"Your body is the entirety of all your felt experience in all directions, all at once." The second episode of my Boundless Body Readings series for November…
- Deep Psychology
The Boundless Body: November Readings #1
"This timeless, spaceless, everpresent state is your own true condition. You are already this endless fullness that you seek." The first episode of my…
- Deep Psychology
Unitive Stage of Ego Development (#168)
We have reached the last of the nine stages in Ego Development Theory, called the Unitive stage. This is where we consciously realise God, see through the…
- Deep Psychology
The Great Developmental Arc
Human ego development has an overall trajectory to it, and once you reach Ego-aware you have almost reached its end. This is a snippet from my 21/10 episode…
- Deep Psychology
Bitesize Summary of the Ego-Aware Stage
The defining features of the Ego-Aware stage of ego development, which we cover in great detail in my Wednesday 21/10 episode, The Ego-Aware Stage of Ego…
- Deep Psychology
The Ego-Aware Stage of Ego Development (#167)
We discuss the Ego-Aware stage of ego development, AKA the Magician, which signifies another huge paradigm shift. This is the first postautonomous or…
- Deep Psychology
Your Field Guide for Identifying Strategists
Here are some key Strategist personality traits that will help you spot people operating from this stage. This is a snippet from my 14/10 episode Strategist…
- Deep Psychology
Why The Strategist Stage Gets Its Name
The Strategist stage of ego development gets its name primarily from the Strategist's complex, long-term, systemic thinking process, its sense of mission, and…
- Deep Psychology
How the Strategist & Pluralist Differ
The Strategist and Pluralist levels, though both Postconventional, are rather different levels of development, with distinct senses of self, worldviews…
- Deep Psychology
Strategist Stage of Ego Development (#166)
In this episode, we're exploring the seventh stage of ego development: the Strategist, also known as the Autonomous stage. This is where we begin to see the…
- Deep Psychology
Opening Pandora's Box of Truth
At the Pluralist level, we become open to many more truth systems than before. Until this level, truth is rather simple. We tend to adopt one truth system and…
- Deep Psychology
Beyond the Norm: Postconventional Ego Development
What does it mean to move beyond conventional development? In this snippet, I explain how postconventional development involves seeing through your cultural…
- Deep Psychology
The Great Postconventional Watershed
The Pluralist stage marks both a stage shift and the Conventional-Postconventional shift AND the move into the second half of the developmental arc. This is a…
- Deep Psychology
Individualist Stage of Ego Development (#165)
In this episode, I explore the Pluralist/Individualist stage of development, the first truly post-conventional stage. We look at what happens when you begin…
- Deep Psychology
The Great Awakening to Self-Help
The Achiever level is when we usually get involved - or obsessed - with self-help for the first time. This fits very well with the typical Achiever traits…
- Deep Psychology
The Achiever Level in a Nutshell
You could sum up the Achiever level in the two points that I make here. This is the heart of this level's psyche and behaviour. This is a snippet from my…
- Deep Psychology
The Achiever: Stage 4 of Ego Development (#164)
The Achiever level of ego development is where our identity becomes fully differentiated from others and our environment. At this level, we derive meaning from…
- Deep Psychology
Meet My Textbook EXPERT Family Member
I know a person who is a textbook, textbook example of the Expert. Here I give several examples of the Expert stage showing up in them. This makes the theory…
- Deep Psychology
The Heart of the Expert Mind: The Need to Know
There is one simple driver behind the entire Expert stage of ego development: "I must know", "I should know". This one trait explains most of their personality…
- Deep Psychology
The Expert Stage: Why It's Called "Expert"
"No one can tell an Expert anything they don't know already." Let's explain why the Expert stage gets its name. Perhaps Cook-Grueter said it best when she…
- Deep Psychology
The Expert, Stage 3/4 of Ego Development (#163)
This is the Expert stage of ego development - the second of three Conventional levels, and the fifth stage of 10 overall. We can best sum it up by saying that…
- Deep Psychology
Conformist Stage of Ego Development: Key Personality Traits
Some telltale signs of the Conformist stage: sensitivity to criticism, dependence on authority, and they champion their chosen group's values and motifs. This…
- Deep Psychology
The Conformist Level of Ego Development - Part 2/2 (#162.2)
In this two-part episode, we describe the Conformist level of ego development, or Stage 3 in Cook-Greuter's Ego Development Theory. At this stage, we are…
- Deep Psychology
What Does Conformist Mean?
Here we discuss why the "Conformist" Stage 3 of Ego Dev is called as such. Perhaps we could sum it up very simply by saying that at this stage we are defined…
- Deep Psychology
What is Conventional Development?
Conventional levels describe the ego development of most adults in modern countries. This is the bulk of the bell curve, comprising 80% of the population. This…
- Deep Psychology
The Conformist Level of Ego Development - Part 1/2 (#162.1)
In this two-part episode, we describe the Conformist level of ego development, or Stage 3 in Cook-Greuter's Ego Development Theory. At this stage, we are…
- Deep Psychology
It's Me vs The World: Stage 2/3 Ego Development
At Stage 2/3 of Ego (the Opportunist), we become aware that others have their own needs and wants. As yet, we possess no real empathy or ability to cooperate…
- Deep Psychology
Early Ego Development = Your Psyche's Foundation
You might be wondering why bother learning about early, preconventional ego development if most adults are long past it. Here's why. This is a snippet from my…
- Deep Psychology
What Really is Preconventional Ego Development?
Preconventional ego development takes us from being newborns with zero identity and zero meaning-making capacity to being functional members of the society…
- Deep Psychology
Pre-Conventional Stages of Ego Development by Cook-Greuter (#161)
We continue our series on Cook-Greuter's Ego Development Theory by covering the Pre-Conventional levels. These represent the base of the human being, the…
- Deep Psychology
Is Higher Development Always Better?
We tend to think that higher ego development simply means being happier. Our logic is that greater self-awareness, motivations and flexibility, a more complex…
- Deep Psychology
What is Ego Development?
Ego development simply means how the ego (i.e. our meaning-making function) complexifies over time. As it complexifies, so do our autonomy, freedom…
- Deep Psychology
What is the Ego?
This month we are studying ego development as framed by Cook-Greuter, so we ought to know what the ego is. It probably isn't what you think. This is a snippet…
- Deep Psychology
Intro to Cook-Greuter's Ego Development Theory (#160)
We see the world, explain things, make meaning and find coherence in predictable ways as we mentally develop. This is not a random process. This is a…
- Deep Psychology
What Do Personality Typologies Really Tell Us?
Beyond the personality typology system we prefer, what do they really tell us about who we are? What are the deeper lessons? This is a snippet from my…
- Deep Psychology
Is Astrology Legit?
Here we explore whether or not astrology is legit as a system for understanding human personality. This is a snippet from my Wednesday 26/8, Making Sense of…
- Deep Psychology
How the Enneagram Illuminated Humans For Me
The Enneagram is the personality typology that has shown me the most about myself and others. Here's how. This is a snippet from my 26/8 episode, Making Sense…
- Deep Psychology
Making Sense of Personality Typology Systems - Part 2/2 (#159)
In this mini-series, we’re going to look at the main personality typology systems and how to use them. Knowing your personality type helps you achieve a…
- Deep Psychology
Intro to the Myers-Briggs System
Here are the keys to the Myers-Briggs system, among the most popular personality typology systems out there. This is a snippet from my Wednesday 19/8 episode…
- Deep Psychology
Exploring the Masculine-Feminine Typology
The masculine describes qualities typically embodied by biological males, and the feminine describes those embodied by biological females. But anyone –…
- Deep Psychology
Are You An Introvert?
Are you an introvert? Use these key markers of introversion to find out. This is a snippet from my Wednesday 19/8 episode, Making Sense of Personality Typology…
- Deep Psychology
Making Sense of Personality Typology Systems - Part 1/2 (#158)
In this mini-series, we’re going to look at the main personality typology systems and how to use them. Knowing your personality type helps you achieve a…
- Deep Psychology
When Identity Decouples from the Conventional Self
One of the key markers of transpersonal development is that our identity becomes permanently decoupled from the limited sense of personal self. This is a…
- Deep Psychology
The Mystery of Transpersonal Levels of Consciousness
When it comes to the transpersonal, 3rd-tier levels of human consciousness, we're operating mostly on speculation rather than hard research data. This is a…
- Deep Psychology
Transpersonal, 3rd-Tier Levels of Consciousness (#157)
Today we discuss the 3rd tier of consciousness development, or the Transpersonal levels. These are very rare levels beyond Turquoise Construct-Aware that few…
- Deep Psychology
The Collapse of the Enlightenment Project
At Turquoise Construct-Aware, enlightenment or spiritual awakening loses its mythic glow and starts to become ordinary, direct, immediate. You stop making…
- Deep Psychology
When You Finally Stop Delaying Fulfillment
The move to Turquoise Construct-Aware heralds the end of teleological living, or goal-oriented living. Every single prior level of consciousness is organised…
- Deep Psychology
Key Features of Turquoise Construct-Aware Level
These are the key features of the Turquoise Construct-Aware level in outline. This is a snippet from my Wednesday 5/8 episode, Postconventional Levels of…
- Deep Psychology
The Post-Conventional Levels of Consciousness - 3/3 (#156) [Turquoise Construct-Aware]
Today we discuss the 3rd postconventional level of consciousness, Turquoise Construct-Aware. This level sits on the verge of the Transpersonal levels and is…
- Deep Psychology
The Power of Systems Thinking
At the Yellow/Teal level of consciousness, we begin to tap into systems thinking. Let's explore what it means and why it's powerful. This is a snippet from my…
- Deep Psychology
The Birth of Multiple Perspectives
At Integral, we become multiperspectival for the first time. This is a radical shift in cognitive development and worldview, and here we explore its…
- Deep Psychology
When The World Becomes Developmental
The shift to Integral consciousness marks the first stage at which you see yourself, others and humanity developmentally. Here, we explore just what that…
- Deep Psychology
1st Tier v 2nd Tier Development: The Monumental Leap
Let's discuss "the monumental leap in meaning" that occurs when we transition from 1st tier to 2nd tier in our development. This is a snippet from my 29/7…
- Deep Psychology
Key Features of Yellow/Teal Integral Stage
A bitesize overview of the Yellow/Teal Integral stage of development or level of consciousness, which Graves called "a monumental leap in meaning". This is a…
- Deep Psychology
The Post-Conventional Levels of Consciousness - 2/3 (#155)
We continue our Levels of Consciousness series by looking at the Post-Conventional levels of consciousness, the leading edge of human development that…
- Deep Psychology
The Post-Scientific Spiritual Revival
At Green Postmodern, you revive or rediscover your spiritual life in a post-rational, non-dogmatic form. This is the beginning of true spiritual wisdom. This…
- Deep Psychology
This is a Defining Trait of Green Postmodern
A critical feature of the Green Postmodern stage is that it looks back and criticises the Orange Achiever stage with its rationality, scientific mind and focus…