Wisdom skills model
- underlying intuition
- hierarchical complexity alone does not capture much that is important to the devfelopment of "wisdom"
- ego-development (and ethical capacity) involves letting go as well as building up
- "wisdom skill" means pretty much the same as ego-development
- goal #1
- integrate/coordinate adult developmental models
- hiearchical complexity (fischer; commons)
- ego-development (loevinger, torbert, cook-greuter, O'Fallon)
- orders of consciousness (kegan-stages)
- not a critic of vertical developmental per se
- but share a critic or convern
- fetishization of vertical growth, esp. in preactice communities
- growth to goodness pitfalls, that higher/later development is:
- better
- happier
- more ethical
- most needed
- THe vuca Narrative
- premise #1
- we over-focus on vertical advancement
- most of the worlds problems are from existing cognitiv structures (not insufficient complexity)
- 50% of the issues we see at any scale, these problems come from structures in our psyche.
- we need eeequal focsu on realsing/deconstructing structures (i.e. complexity)
- goal #2
- integrate modern trauma theory better into adult developmental models
- goal #3
- need better models of how spiritual development (states and stages) integreates with adult developmental theories
- helps untanlge some confusions and dilemma in how we think about spiritual development
- premise #2 (question transcendence)
- spiritual development models conflate
- developmental growth with structural release
- ascending with descending
- learning with unlearning
- construction with deconstruction
- "transcend and include"
- premise #4
- in reality, human developmental (almost) always transcends and excludes;
- requireing more emphasis on recovers and healing
- important to have contiouing modes of cleaning up and recoverying lost capacities
- Wisdom Skill model
- integrating cognitive developmental theories of hierarchical complexity and trauma recovery into "grow up, clean up, wake up"
- is strongly informed by
- What is vertical developmental ?
- learning as increased complexity (including emergent simplexity)
- Commons' axiomatic "complexity order"
- Building upon (composition, coordination, operating upon...defined in therms of)
- five sub-operations of hiearchical complexity
- differntation
- composition
- generalization
- abstraction
- integration
- ...inevitably lead to "demi-realities", exclusions,
- disastrous differntation
- noxious composition
- visous abstraction
- pernicious generalization
- tyrannical integration
- e.g. "vicious" abstraction
- our theories, models, beliefd, ideologies are composed of conceptual abstractions.
- I.E. cimplifications that highlight certain properties and ignore others
- whoe chooses what is left out as unimportant?
- abstractions are alwas biased (motivated, perspectival)
- Negative externalities
- structuries later found to be inadequate, partial, occluding
- lost capacities ans psychic resources
- and need unlearning, recovering, healing processes
- associations with Complexity Capacity (ascending movements)
- learning, cognition growth, skill-building
- achievement, problem solving
- reflective abstraction, meta-cognitino
- development, evolution
- associations with descendign movements (spiritual clarity)
- healing, letting go, forgivbeness, loss, death, simplicity, purity, emptiness, purgation, pruification, non-attachment, dissolution, deconstructing, dismantling, cutting-through, eradicating, seing through, laying bare, dis-idendifying, ...
- a model that appreciates horizontal developmental and vertical developmental and also depth.
- height + depth
- width and volume
- Applications
- what is at the bottom and top?
- A critique of "Omega Point" and eveolutionary Telos
- Is "non-duality]" or "source of being" at bottom or top?
- spiritual attainment as descending ... then ascending
- why are some "awake" people such jerks?
- can one eveolve too fast - in ego or spiritual development?
- how to honoer, yet not romanticize, aboriginal wisdom?
References
2021 ESRAD Wisdom Skills Murray 15 min - YouTube
