Deep Psychology5 Jan 2024

Jean Gebser's Structures of Consciousness (#18)

Jean Gebser's work on the structures of consciousness illuminates the deep emergent structures of human psychology and how they play out in culture, society, religion, science and systems of meaning across human history, back to time immemorial.

This is psychoactive philosophy. We're not analysing these structures of consciousness as separate entities far removed from them.

We're steeped in these structures of consciousness.

In fact, our psychology morphs and evolves through these structures as we grow and develop – in both an individual and collective sense. And their vestiges can be seen strewn across both our inner world, our objective world, and our planet.

Here are Jean Gebser's Five Structures of Consciousness, which he calls mutations:

1) Archaic 2) Magic 3) Mythic 4) Rational 5) Integral

Integral is being born right before our eyes. Can we step up and embody this aperspectival, multi-viewed, flowing, flexible consciousness and take the world beyond the limited Rational perspective that has dominated for the last few hundred years?

To be spiritual yet worldly and inclusive, rational yet integrative, and healthily selfless and selfish. This is our challenge as modern humans.

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