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I, too, have tweaked his models somewhat. I disagree with him in two very basic ways.
1. His definitions of the right-hand quadrants are lacking in exactly the ways that Mark Edwards outlines (though Edwards doesn't go far enough, in that "behaviors" would be the mental counterparts, and various kinds of spiritual "radiation of essences" (for lack of a better--or any other--term) would be above that. Wilber's "right-hand" quadrants are simply the lower structures, and these affect and are affected by higher evolution through upward and downward causation; they are not laterally related. This changes the very nature of what AQAL would mean and how holistic practice would be approached, because "all levels, all quadrants" sees double representation in the physical and biological, and behaviors, spiritual energy projection, and the like get nothing.
2. In terms of Spiral Dynamics, Yellow is the first transpersonal stage. I could go into detail (which I will in my own works), but this is basically reflected in the "enormous gulf of meaning and understanding" between first tier and second. It's a completely different set of tools in second-tier/transpersonal reaities.
But these tweaks are from a space of shared understanding, and so--as you say--are a positive build on the accomplishments of Wilber, not a tearing down of his work.
1. His definitions of the right-hand quadrants are lacking in exactly the ways that Mark Edwards outlines (though Edwards doesn't go far enough, in that "behaviors" would be the mental counterparts, and various kinds of spiritual "radiation of essences" (for lack of a better--or any other--term) would be above that. Wilber's "right-hand" quadrants are simply the lower structures, and these affect and are affected by higher evolution through upward and downward causation; they are not laterally related. This changes the very nature of what AQAL would mean and how holistic practice would be approached, because "all levels, all quadrants" sees double representation in the physical and biological, and behaviors, spiritual energy projection, and the like get nothing.
2. In terms of Spiral Dynamics, Yellow is the first transpersonal stage. I could go into detail (which I will in my own works), but this is basically reflected in the "enormous gulf of meaning and understanding" between first tier and second. It's a completely different set of tools in second-tier/transpersonal reaities.
But these tweaks are from a space of shared understanding, and so--as you say--are a positive build on the accomplishments of Wilber, not a tearing down of his work.
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