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Old Dec 26, 2012, 01:11 PM
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Recently I started reading about Integral Psychology, as described by Ken Wilber. My library has a couple of things by him. It talks about how a person can be well developed and healthy in some aspects of their life, and less so in others. He says there are stages that people tend to go through that apply to every area. It is possible to be really good at some parts of life and abysmal in others. Progress tends to allow increasingly open and more accepting perspectives. Religion or spirituality is one of those areas. It takes a significant level of development to have your own beliefs and allow other people to have different beliefs. To let everyone else be at their own level of development, and still appreciate them for being there at that level. In some areas - like religion or spirituality - you are ahead of your aunt. Could be you are ahead on the internet, too. Ken Wilber didn't specifically describe that aspect of life in his books, but he basically said it applies to everything. He even jokingly added cooking. The point is that it is literally not possible for a person who is at a lower stage in an area to even understand the perspective of someone at a higher stage in that same area. It doesn't matter how willing they are to try, because to understand they have to grow and develop to the same stage. This can take years, and it involves a lot of backsliding along the way.